'Safe'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think he just lost.
I agree. This week has been bad for him all around, but today he's seriously tanked.
Don't you think he looks tired?
(Re: Virginia, I'm certainly not about to call it, but the polls have been pointing to it being a possibility for months now.)
Yeah, Virginia is definitely in play. Not only are people getting fed up with Republicans, but the demographics are changing too, especially in northern VA.
Oh, and as for Palin, based on the completely neutral and representative sample of my mother-in-law, even loyalist republican fundamentalist white women who vote on social conservative issues don't think very much of her.
She's losing a lot more votes for McCain than she's gaining at this point -- and if his candidacy falling apart proves that pandering to the my-MIL demographic isn't the strategy it was thought to be, then yay!
The last thing that made me smile? Noah playing peekaboo. K bringing me a cupcake. Gracie giving me a big grin. My students writing scathing and hilarious responses in rhyming couplet to Andrew Marvell. Running into another NICU mom I had lost contact with.
Yeah, Virginia is definitely in play. Not only are people getting fed up with Republicans, but the demographics are changing too, especially in northern VA.
Cool. The demographics always interest me. I remember early in Bush's first term, there were suggestions that the growing populations of the southern and western states were setting the stage for continued Republican dominance. The pundits failed to take into account that the influx of people weren't as conservative as the locals. Now Colorado is a swing state, as is Virginia, apparently, and North Carolina's starting to budge.
Wanna see Gracie smile.
Will have to settle this week for seeing my nephews, including the now mobile Mr. T.
North Carolina's starting to budge.
I'm hoping it's more than a budge, although it's clearly less of a chance than Virginia.
Don't you think he looks tired?
Hee! Thanks, Doctor!
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She's losing a lot more votes for McCain than she's gaining at this point -- and if his candidacy falling apart proves that pandering to the my-MIL demographic isn't the strategy it was thought to be, then yay!
The Economist has had articles suggesting that although Rove's polarising politics won Bush two terms, without the urgency that 9/11 granted their fearmongering, it's a strategy that makes them more and more beholden to a rump that frankly alienates a lot of moderates. Galvanising your base looks like a high-risk strategy when it lets your opponent take the centre. (It also noted that candidates generally move out to the extremes to win the nomination, then back to the centre to contest the presidency. McCain's been doing it all arse-backwards.)
Last thing that made me smile was the taste of these lovely organic strawberries.