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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.
I'm more than a little confused about the long lines, but total turnout numbers NOT being that much higher.
My impression of Brooklyn, at least, is that lines were really long in the morning because everyone was anticipating long lines and voted early. People who went after work said they didn't have to wait at all.
In GA, early voting had long lines; election day voting, not.
The shots of Biden and Obama alone together look so casual and friendly--they genuinely like each other.
I had the same thought with the shot of them sharing a pretzel from the big Philadelphia day -- they have the body language of real friends, not "we have to do appearances together" friends.
I am totally ready to pay more taxes if it means everyone gets healthcare or something.
The quote I had running around in my head through the whole socialism phase of the election was, I think, Brandeis: "I love paying taxes. I use them to buy civilization."
oh, and I just re-read and totlat number of voters was up between 4-6 million (so yea, that could affect lines). It is % that did not go up much. So get OUT the vote is probably much more important.
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society."
Ah, thanks, Ginger -- I must've remembered someone else's rephrasing of Holmes. No idea where I got Brandeis in the mix, in that case. The sentiment stands.
Newly victorious progressives can snicker and dismiss them, but that popular vote was too close for my comfort, and we dismiss those millions to our peril.
Maybe, but I thought 6 % points is generally considered a fairly big gap as these things go. That's probably better than half the elections in the past century. Certainly those in recent memory.
ooh, stealth Natter turnover! Top 50??
The press conference killed me! The dog question came up and I loved his answer. Weighing Malia's allergies with the desire for a shelter dog ("a mutt like me"--OOOF).
The sentiment stands.
It's one of my favorite quotes, because I get so pissed off about this constant "tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts." It's up there with Oliver Wendell Holmes' statement that the most important principle is "the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."