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Depends. Republicans voting in the SF Bay Area must feel the same way. I think that also has to do with the phenomenon of like-minded voters living together more and the society breaking down among politically segregated lines -- much in the way racial segregation existed in its heyday...

Not all that different from 2004, really. Except then I think we had more on the line with the election. Except we totally blew it. Not that Kerry was a godsend. But sheesh, per yesterday's NY Times: This election is critical. But it's not quite 2004. The colossal damage has already been done...

Hey, we can have senators in office who, as recently convicted felons, can't even vote for themselves in a general election. And yet they can still vote in the Senate in a representative government, representing thousands of citizens. Anything is possible.

I still think it just comes down to the fact that a lot of people in this country would prefer to accidentally kill 10 of their family members and friends just to have that once chance they could kill a stranger who tries to do them harm.

And to think that under President Ronald Reagan, the top marginal income tax rate was 50%. That socialist bastard!!!

Well, the bigger issue to me is that this whole "socialist" label slapped on Obama comes from one thing and one thing only: that he favors a top marginal income tax rate of 39.6% instead of 35%. (For people with adjusted gross incomes of over $250,000 per year.) Which we can be sure that...

I don't think Obama is saying we do that either, but apparently you do.

What's hard is that people paint things like "socialism" with such broad black & white stripes. It's that "good vs. evil" convenience of labelling things. Because the truth is that we have a hell of a lot of socialism in this country already. About the only ones who aren't at least partly...

Kinda tough to complain about your tax bill when you're unemployed.

There's a variety of good stuff in the vid, but the bit with Bill O'Reilly calling you a "patriot" is up there. :D

Yeah, Andy, but you're the sort of person that will cost us the election!: "Obama's Loss Traced To Andrew Beck" http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=jG5CCNIdaCiSezMK.0moezcxMDg3MDA-_by=13242023-x6agrIx Get your ass out and vote in that swing state of yours! :D

No question the crash was mysterious. But I don't jump to conclusions that way. In any case, Saturday marked the sixth anniversary of the crash and his death. I'll honor his work with a quote from one of his early speeches: And with that, a big middle finger to Sen. Ted Stevens. It was the...

I'm celebrating the news. This was one of the hot-button issues for the late Sen. Paul Wellstone, one of my favorite people in American politics of the past 20 years: of how nefarious and slippery the slope is for senators and congressman to think they're entitled above and beyond the law. As...

I'm not embarrassed to say it, but the reception that Obama got in Germany, for example, only underscored how long it's been since this country was governed by someone who didn't act like a grown up crack baby.

What's weird as she's come from the same state that was the only one that voted against Reagan in '84 and is also the state of one of my all-time favorite federal politicians in modern times, Paul Wellstone (RIP). I wouldn't call it McCarthyism, though. It's really more of a desperate Hail...

Largely facilitated by an opposing party that imploded.

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It's not like the Philippines where you can escape your WW II war crime history and hang without anyone knowing. But there are less stringent rules. People have birth certificates when they are born, but not many have them on them/with them (even copies). School records, phone books, etc., are...

One political theory has it that liberal parties do better when you "get out the vote", because more people at the edges of society are included. So one strategy for conservatives in the past has been to run negative campaigns... not just to slander an opponent, but even to turn away voters of...

It's actually pretty bizarre. We don't have a poll tax. So it's like... wtf? The conspiracy theorist would have you believe it's a screening process to deliberately keep minorities and people who want to keep a low-profile from voting. But given the lax identification enforcement they have...