Daily Archives: November 4, 2008

November 4, 2008: My Voting Experience

I live in California, and my polling place is in the board room at the college campus where I work. I live in a particularly conservative part of the state, and I’ve voted at this location for a number of years. In … Continue reading

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Long Lines a Poll Tax?

Rachel Maddow thinks so. How much do you make an hour—and how long did you have to wait to vote?

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“Oh Captain, My Captain!”

The final scene of Dead Poet’s Society, in which a group of students stand up to the authoritarian power structure at their school, and align themselves with a good teacher who has been unjustly maligned, strikes me as an apt metaphor … Continue reading

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This Time We Democrats Are Going to Kick the Electoral Football, Aren’t We?

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The Electoral Early Bird Special

From Salon.com this morning: Ohio and Indiana — along with Virginia (13 electoral votes) and North Carolina (15) — are the early-bird, carried-by-Bush states that will determine whether political mavens will show up at work Wednesday morning bleary-eyed from fatigue … Continue reading

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