Yes, most of the polls and the three most reliable poll aggregates show President Obama on track to a 300+ EV victory next Tuesday. http://polltracker.talkingpointsmemo.com/ http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/ http://election.princeton.edu/ We’re going to keep the Senate. Truly, these are good times. Yay us. But it’s not over yet. Let’s run the score up on the bastards. I don’t …
Archives for November 2012
Black Helicopters
Krugman on Romney’s FEMA gaffe: So let me just take a moment to flag an issue others have been writing about: the weird Republican obsession with killing FEMA. Kevin Drum has the goods: they just keep doing it. George Bush the elder turned the agency into a dumping ground for hacks, with bad results; Clinton …
Nothing to Do Here, Some Just Whine and Complain
Since we’re sharing hospital stories, I spent the last few days helping out a family member at a specialty heart hospital, a place where they do a bunch of heart surgery and cardiac catheterization, and where every room is what they used to call “intensive care”. Luckily, the person I was helping out was the …
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Early Morning Open Thread: Shadow Walkers
__ __ For the Day of the Dead, and the festival of Santa Muerte, a meditation by Amy Wilentz on zombies: … Most people think of them as the walking dead, a being without a soul or someone with no free will. This is true. But the zombie is not an alien enemy who’s been …
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Open Thread: Two More Votes for Obama, One Less for Romney
Professional curmudgeon linguist John McWhorter, at TNR, pities the fool who won’t vote for Obama: … [W]e have a President who has touted extra billions of dollars to community colleges; has states competing for Race To The Top funds to improve public schools where No Child Left Behind failed; has barnstormed the country pushing a …
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Still Alive
Did my civic duty today and voted, immediately called dad (who had also voted early) and told him “I JUST NEGATED YOUR ROMNEY VOTE,” He laughed. Mom won’t tell me who she voted for and said “I WILL TAKE IT TO THE GRAVE.” I have that kind of deep down tired that shitty and changing …