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.
Jayne, your mouth is talking. You might wanna look to that.
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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.
Hil R. - Sep 24, 2008 5:07:39 pm PDT #460 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
amych - Sep 24, 2008 5:14:03 pm PDT #461 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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!
Kat - Sep 24, 2008 5:22:13 pm PDT #462 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
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.
billytea - Sep 24, 2008 5:24:49 pm PDT #463 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.
sarameg - Sep 24, 2008 5:25:42 pm PDT #464 of 10001
Wanna see Gracie smile.
Will have to settle this week for seeing my nephews, including the now mobile Mr. T.
amych - Sep 24, 2008 5:26:10 pm PDT #465 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
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.
Ailleann - Sep 24, 2008 5:28:52 pm PDT #466 of 10001
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Don't you think he looks tired?
Hee! Thanks, Doctor!
t /hopes it really was a reference
billytea - Sep 24, 2008 5:29:17 pm PDT #467 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.)
§ ita § - Sep 24, 2008 5:40:49 pm PDT #468 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Last thing that made me smile was the taste of these lovely organic strawberries.
Lee - Sep 24, 2008 5:41:55 pm PDT #469 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Does the fact that I'm looking for pictures of Pink for you make you smile?