October 2008

Seven More Days

I’ve been wondering why Obama in particular and Democrats running for President generally can’t seem to get 50% of the white vote.  Turns out it is still our Southern bretheren:

Obama is outperforming any Democrat back to Jimmy Carter among white voters, getting 45 percent to McCain’s 52 percent. But in the South, it is a very different story. Obama fares worse among Southern whites than any Democrat since George McGovern in 1972.

Whites in the East and West tilt narrowly toward Obama (he’s up 8 and 7 points, respectively), and the two run about evenly among those in the Midwest. By contrast, Southern whites break more than 2 to 1 for McCain, 65 percent to 32 percent.

I can’t take much more of this. Two weeks to go, and I’m at the end of my rope. I can’t work. More

A blogger on Daily Kos takes us down Party  history highway and asks the question, “is this the beginning of the end of the Republican Party?”  I certainly don’t think so, but the party is now being controlled by the “belligerent delusional ignoramus faction”.  That has resulted in defections by people with brains such as George Will, David Brooks and Christopher Buckley, Lincoln Chaffee, Chuck Hagel and Susan Eisenhower.  Since two party systems are necessarily coalitions, is there too much centrifical force now that it is becoming the party of Palin?

Interesting read:

Ode to Sean Hannity

by John Cleese
Aping urbanity
Oozing with vanity
Plump as a manatee
Faking humanity
Journalistic calamity
Intellectual inanity
Fox Noise insanity
You’re a profanity
Hannity

John Cleese, Poet