From Aqua Buddha to Wikileaks, 2010 gave us a bounty of new words for our political vocabulary. The most memorable phrases and most inventive authors from the year that was.
Sarah Palin set the spirit for 2010 when she declared from her favorite soap box, "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" Celebrate we will. The popular political vocabulary got a little more colorful this year thanks to the likes of Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, and Eric Massa (Remember him?). Watching the legislative sausage get made elevated a few select phrases from the committee room nomenclature to everyday chatter. Plus, the midterm campaign delivered its share of funnies, verbal souvenirs which will take with us into the new year.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Sarah Palin: Her Year
Grab your notebooks, here are the new entries for our political dictionary.
Aqua Buddha n.
Sarah Palin set the spirit for 2010 when she declared from her favorite soap box, "English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!" Celebrate we will. The popular political vocabulary got a little more colorful this year thanks to the likes of Sarah Palin, Rand Paul, and Eric Massa (Remember him?). Watching the legislative sausage get made elevated a few select phrases from the committee room nomenclature to everyday chatter. Plus, the midterm campaign delivered its share of funnies, verbal souvenirs which will take with us into the new year.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Sarah Palin: Her Year
Grab your notebooks, here are the new entries for our political dictionary.
Aqua Buddha n.
- 12/13/2010
- by Samuel P. Jacobs
- The Daily Beast
In some races, there are large gaps in the number of friends various competitors have. Is that an indicator of how they'll do at the polls?
In Nevada, Republican challenger Sharron Angle is not only leading Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the polls, she’s also far ahead on the social nets. When we started writing this story, Angle’s Facebook page had 104,059 fans vs. a mere 14,348 for Reid. Angle is also leading when it comes to voter sentiment--by four points, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. And Facebook's public policy team says that Angle is piling on new supporters at a faster rate than Reid. In the last two weeks, Angle’s Facebook fan base grew by 10,500, vs. just 921 for Reid.
So does that mean Angle will knock Reid out of the Senate on election day next Tuesday? It’s anyone’s guess. We asked Facebook, and as far as they know,...
In Nevada, Republican challenger Sharron Angle is not only leading Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the polls, she’s also far ahead on the social nets. When we started writing this story, Angle’s Facebook page had 104,059 fans vs. a mere 14,348 for Reid. Angle is also leading when it comes to voter sentiment--by four points, according to the latest Rasmussen poll. And Facebook's public policy team says that Angle is piling on new supporters at a faster rate than Reid. In the last two weeks, Angle’s Facebook fan base grew by 10,500, vs. just 921 for Reid.
So does that mean Angle will knock Reid out of the Senate on election day next Tuesday? It’s anyone’s guess. We asked Facebook, and as far as they know,...
- 10/28/2010
- by E.B. Boyd
- Fast Company
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