Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

It’s the corruption, stupid.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Come on, man.

Everybody saw this coming.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

This fight is for everything.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

The willow is too close to the house.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

T R E 4 5 O N

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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PSA: Third Elizabeth Warren / Scott Brown Debate at 7PM

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Per the Boston Globe:

Halfway though their debate series, Senator Scott Brown and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, meet again tonight in Springfield amid polls that still show a close race.

The Republican incumbent and Harvard Law School professor will square off at 7 p.m. EDT for an hourlong debate expected to touch on western Massachusetts and rural issues. It will be shown statewide by NECN.

Boston.com, BostonGlobe.com, and “Political Intelligence” will offer a live blog for a minute-by-minute recounting of the debate, and the homepage will also offer instant fact-checking and analysis.

Among possible subjects of discussion: infrastructure investment, the candidates’ concern about areas away from the capital region of Boston, and challenges to daily life in less populated areas of Massachusetts, such as a lack of access to highspeed Internet service…

Don’t think I’ll be able to live-blog this (we don’t have cable and it’s not clear NECN will be streaming the debate). “West of Rte. 128” is supposed to be Scotty Country — all proud barn-jacket-wearin’, gubmint-hatin’, pickup-drivin’ individualists. Just the sort of place, in other words, where Brown might feel encouraged to go off script and (try to) put the Lady Professor in her place once’n’ferall.

Meanwhile, here’s your cue:

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  2. 2.

    David in NY

    The far West of Massachusetts (Berkshire county) always seems pretty blue to me. (Great bumper stickers.) Must be that MA is like PA, Alabama in the middle.

  4. 4.

    lamh35

    Slightly OT, but still Election 2012 so should be okay. Also, I read that even though the top ticket numbers are tightening, the downticket races haven’t been “dragged” down by the top numbers, so I think the polls I’ve seen have Liz Warren still on top right?

    Obama Internal Polls Still Show Leads in Swing States

    Major Garrett reports the first batch of Obama internal polls came back from key swing states today and “revealed that Obama was not in free fall, as some feared, but that his support has returned to where it was in July and August.”

    “Internal Obama polling data show that all swing states have tightened up and that Romney is within the margin of error in states like Ohio and Virginia and Florida. It’s now a dogfight across the swing-state battlefield and any sense of pre-debate complacency that some Obama hands feared was creeping into both turnout and fundraising has vanished.”

    Obama to ABC News: “What’s important is the fundamentals of what this race is about haven’t changed.”

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    Has she asked him yet whey he has the most favorable voting record on Wall St issues in the Senate?

  6. 6.

    Keith

    Good grief, Sully is *still* making debate posts (now, Obama has “the worst debate performance in American history”, apparently forgetting W’s “This job is hard” debate, or I guess by using a snap poll to make this decree). I imagine his husband is crawling out of his skin to get away from all the bitching (it has to be even more tedious than what gets through his blog filter)

  9. 9.

    shortstop

    all proud barn-jacket-wearin’, gubmint-hatin’, pickup-drivin’ individualists

    And yet, none of them speaks in anything remotely approaching this accent.

  10. 10.

    Davis X. Machina

    @lamh35:

    “…Obama was not in free fall, as some feared, but that his support has returned to where it was in July and August…”

    McCain, running with a cartoon character as a VP pick, with the country falling down an elevator shaft, still got 46.5% of the popular vote.

    And Romney’s going to do worse?

  11. 11.

    MikeJ

    “West of Rte. 128” is supposed to be Scotty Country—all proud barn-jacket-wearin’, gubmint-hatin’, pickup-drivin’ individualists.

    You know, morons.

  12. 12.

    Davis X. Machina

    @MikeJ: On a related topic, see the new thread — way to bigfoot, Cole — in which it is revealed Mongo no longer just pawn in game of life…sniff.

  16. 16.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @lamh35:

    is this their last debate?

    Obama’s performance was so terrible that it destroyed the very concept of debate. We will never have debates again in the history of Western Civilization. The platonic essence of debate has been nuked from orbit. I’ve seen the future and it is a boot stomping on Andrew Sullivan’s feelings, forever. Debate is what is waiting for you in room 101.

    In other words, no.

  21. 21.

    feebog

    @ Davis X. Machina

    McCain, running with a cartoon character as a VP pick, with the country falling down an elevator shaft, still got 46.5% of the popular vote.

    And Romney’s going to do worse?

    Yes.

  22. 22.

    Davis X. Machina

    @feebog: I’ll take the over.

    No one will lose an election by more than 5% in our lifetimes. There are no more Landons and McGoverns out there, not in the present polarized environment. An orange barrel, winky light and all, off the interstate, gets 45% of the two-party vote, if a major party sees fit to nominate one.

  24. 24.

    MikeJ

    @Davis X. Machina: The is an excellent scene in a Red Skelton movie in which he is enrolled at an all girls school where he has to take a eurythmic dance class. As a former NFL member[1], I would love to see it mixed with debate.

    [1] Is this stream crossing again even if it’s not the Alex Karras NFL?

  25. 25.

    shortstop

    @feebog: It’ll be a four-point race, my friend. Four points.

    @Davis X. Machina: You mean no one will do it again in our lifetimes. Obama’s seven-point shellacking of McCain was all the more unusual in that non-incumbent presidential elections have stayed within two points for umpteen years. Alas, I think it set people up for unrealistic future expectations.

  26. 26.

    shortstop

    @MikeJ: I’d definitely give half-credit for that crossing, but I’m not that into football, so I may be overruled.

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