Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Another moment for a political pause
My sister pointed this out to me from the Fivethirtyeight.com site: http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-raleigh-north-carolina.html I love the pictures of Sonja Sohn, Seth Gilliam and Gbenga Akinnagbe of The Wire but the last portion of the text is really, really powerful. Read it all the way through but please make it to the piece beneath the second slideshow.
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I'm so excited I can't wait. After at least a week of unchanged predictions, CNN has officially declared Colorado is "leaning" Obama and Indiana is a tossup (before they had it as "leaning" McCain). Also according to CNN.com, the latest polls show Obama within the margin of error for three other states not previously considered to be tossups (at least not by me): Montana, North Dakota, and drumroll please.... Arizona! I'm not saying I think it is going to happen, but the thought of McCain losing Arizona makes me giddily happy. The Arizona electorate has repeatedly voted for a man who bears scant resemblance to the one we see now - a man who opposed Bush's tax cuts for the wealthy, xenophobic immigration policies, and the power of lobbyists - and above all, a man who prided himself on saying what he actually thought even if it wasn't what the listener wanted to hear, on allowing the media access without spinning everything first, on opposing negative campaigning and groundless attack ads. The Arizona electorate probably know the "old" McCain better than anybody - so it should be particularly obvious to them how much he has flip-flopped and how far his integrity has fallen.
In more of a pop culture vein, did you notice that the comments to that fivethirtyeight North Carolina posting included one of the writers and producers of Deadwood? Perhaps she stumbled upon its paranthetical praise in much the same way Aaron Deutsch found his way here...
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