Don't you think most voters know who they'll vote for long before election day, though?

YES. I wish that politics was more like a cagematch. The election season should be X number of days only. Then decide already.

I think that 4% of black women were all in california and voted Green or Peace and Freedom or some other 3rd party.

Don't you think most voters know who they'll vote for long before election day, though?

Ask me that question at different times, and I'll give different answers, probably. I do see people saying boring was totes whatevs since they're not making a difference--I wonder what the numbers are like? How many of those no-point-to-mine votes can swing a race?

I also wonder how many people are one-issue voters (he can't have my guns/womb/borders) and how many can you convince at the last minute that their one issue wasn't the one they should have been paying attention to?

I don't know. But there's nothing like an election to indicate how many people don't think in ways I can follow.

Yikes! I need to get off my ass and find a pink or burgundy knee length crinoline. Any suggestions for sources that don't charge an arm and a leg for non-white underskirts? And are smooth and comfy to the legs?

Any suggestions for sources that don't charge an arm and a leg for non-white underskirts? And are smooth and comfy to the legs?

I think you can have one or the other but not both.

Pix, can you explain the NBPTS renewal process. For Entry 1, I just write about 4 professional growth areas. But then what is the extra pages of documentary evidence?

I am past the schadenfreude of Romney's campaign being SO confident they were going to win, and into the part where I feel bad for the regular people who got such a terrible shock.

I am still gleeful about any pain it might have caused Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh, etc.

And I do hope this is at least the end of the FOX news machine being quite so centered on misinformation. NPR had a story about how some conservatives are pointing out that the insistence on Romney's "momentum" and their conviction that the polls were wrong was pretty damaging.

I wish I could convince my mom that Fox News is full of crap, but any time I point out their distortions, it's dismissed as being from a liberally biased source.

This makes me sad, because otherwise, I can talk to my mom about anything, including fandom.

Does this apply to non-white Christians? What about other religions?

I don't know about all other religions, but something like 72% of Jews voted for Obama.

I think you can have one or the other but not both

Fair enough. I can wear a slip underneath, so I guess I can cope with a little scratchy. I don't even really know where to go in LA to get crinolines, despite having bought both my white ones here. I just can't remember where...

I have plane tickets to buy too. I've let a lot of stuff slip. Grr.

Does this apply to non-white Christians?

Black churches tend to be politically liberal, ime. My own experiential bias means I'm still surprised that "Christian" means more evangelical than mainline Protestant. My people are Christian and Democrats! (Including my more religiously conservative relatives.)

I assume some combination of margin of error and...I don't know, Herman Cain and Alan Keyes' wives?

Condi Rice.

I could not love Rachel Maddow more. Just LOVE! [link]

Yes, someone is right on the internet tv. I don't miss Rachel's show, and I am very selective about my internet exposure because I prefer to surround myself with people I respect and agree with. Natural instinct. I know that some of the polarization of opinion can be blamed on the media, but I am at a total loss as to the ideal solution. Except imposing my will on everyone, but that hasn't been real successful so far.

Also, I think fresh cranberries are my new favorite thing to put in baked goods -- I love the tart/sour in the middle of the sweet.