How do we get this guy to vote blue?

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Friday March 04, 2005 · 10:25 AM PST

2005/03/04 · 10:25

I teach politics at a small state college. In one of my classes I have a student, solidly left-of-center on policy issues, who is simultaneously a hard-core Republican voter. Read More

A day of mourning and prayer--Jan 20

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Saturday November 20, 2004 · 11:51 AM PST

2004/11/20 · 11:51

It seems clear that the GOP's view is "We won, you lost, watch this!"

I've been thinking about what we can do. I'm too old to raise the barricades (although men my age have been ....re-volunteered... for military service recently)

But what about this (apologies if someone else has already proposed this idea):

Inauguration Day should be a day of mourning and prayer. All blue voters should call call in sick that day, keep their children home for school, and stay home to meditate on where the country goes from here.

The Most Dangerous Period--between Kerry's election and his inauguration

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Friday October 29, 2004 · 6:52 AM PDT

2004/10/29 · 06:52

I was rereading the Suskind profile of Bush permanent link in the NYT magazine from a few weeks ago and my tinfoil hat started burning. Even under the most generous assumptions of good will and genuine patriotism, W seems like the type who would have no qualms about taking precipitous actions during his lame-duck period, actions that could seriously jeopardize what is already going to be an enormously tough Kerry presidency.

If one is unwilling to make those generous assumptions, the possible scenerios become downright terrifying.

Are W and his cronies simply misguided patriots? Or do we have to worry about something even worse.

Sorry--but I couldn't sleep last night and this is therapy.

41 on Imus

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Thursday September 02, 2004 · 2:34 PM PDT

2004/09/02 · 14:34

via emphyrio I came across this piece by Andrea Mitchell about HW's barely concealed disagreement (and irritation) at Dubya's Iraq policy. Read More

Undecideds in Ohio

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Monday August 16, 2004 · 8:37 AM PDT

2004/08/16 · 08:37

Focus group results in Ohio testify to the obstacles facing Kerry.

"I just can't stand George Bush," said [Amy Locy,] the deputy clerk of council of nearby Munroe Falls. Locy is angry, in particular, about the president's handling of the war in Iraq.

"Coming into his presidency, he had an agenda that included Saddam Hussein," Locy said. "And 9/11 gave him the opportunity to slip [Hussein's] name in: 'Osama bin Laden,' 'Saddam Hussein,' it's all that same type of Taliban feeling. . . . If Osama bin Laden is responsible for 9/11, then take care of it. He is not in Iraq, so what are we doing there?"

Score one for Democratic nominee John F. Kerry?

Not quite. Locy, 39, is still undecided in the presidential race. Sure, Bush has given her plenty to vote against. But so far, Locy said, Kerry hasn't given her enough to vote for.

This is the problem facing Kerry. Althought discontent among independents and some moderate Republicans runs high, many feel, as Locy does, that "Kerry hasn't done anything to close the deal," or, as Ed Beegle, a retired UPS driver says, "he never commits to anything."

I write this as a hard-core ABB who is now a firm Kerry supporter. In other words, not to simply snark at the Kerry operation, but to invite brainstorming on how he might close the deal. According to the Boston Globe's story, even GOP waverers are hesitant to switch.

Help with Blogging

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Tuesday August 03, 2004 · 7:15 AM PDT

2004/08/03 · 07:15

I'm interested in setting up a group blog for my poli sci students in a classroom settting. I'd like to see what they might be thinking about the election. Any suggestions as to which service would be best for multiple contributers? Probably would want a comment capability. Oh yeah, it must be simple because I'm an idiot.

Hersh on Abu Ghraib tortures (er....third hand, unfortunately)

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Saturday June 12, 2004 · 5:22 PM PDT

2004/06/12 · 17:22

I hadn't seen this. I apologize if it's old news. According to a post at Brad DeLong's, Seymour Hersh had this to say:

"He said he had seen all the Abu Ghraib pictures. He said, "You haven't begun to see evil..." then trailed off. He said, "horrible things done to children of women prisoners, as the cameras run."

He looked frightened."

notes via Rick Pearlstein in, I think, an email to DeLong.

What's wrong with Kansas?

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Thursday June 10, 2004 · 7:14 PM PDT

2004/06/10 · 19:14

I was listening to Terry Gross today as she interviewed first Tom Frank and then PJ O'Rourke. The theme of both interviews was why do working Americans in the "heartland" ignore their own material self-interest and vote Republican.

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Friday May 28, 2004 · 5:43 PM PDT

2004/05/28 · 17:43

Representative Ron Paul (R-TX), interviewed on PBS by Bill Moyers, is ripping the Bush maladministration for its foreign adventurism in general and its Iraq Policy in particular. We've had discussions about libertarians here before. It has always seemed that they were willing to sacrifice the bulk of their principles on the alter of lower taxes.

Is this a portent of fractures to come or is it just Paul being Paul?

My bookmarks have been lost

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Thursday May 27, 2004 · 3:50 AM PDT

2004/05/27 · 03:50

I've been using a service, mybookmarks.com, that stores your bookmarks/favorites on the web, so that you can access them from anywhere. It seems to have disappeared. Beyond the grief I'm suffering at having lost thousands of stored links, I'm wondering if anyone knows of another, similar (and, hopefully, more reliable) service.

The courage of civil rights pioneers

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Monday May 17, 2004 · 12:57 PM PDT

2004/05/17 · 12:57

I was listening to Talk of the Nationtoday (a left-over habit from when Ray Suarez was the host) and hear some very moving testimony from some of the people who were on the front lines 40 years ago in the desegregation battles. The children (now adults) who braved the insults, rocks, and worse of racists to integrate the schools were inspiring.

But the story of Julian Prince a white, former school superintendent in Mississippi was awesome. He led his district through a voluntary desegregation during the times when other deep South communities were practicing massive resistance to Brown. Repeatedly, Neil Conan asked him if it was difficult ("yes"), if it was dangerous ("yes"), so why did you do it?

The answer: I'm an American and this is America, and it has to be fair--expressed in the most matter-of-fact tones.

Wampum blog

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Tuesday May 11, 2004 · 4:20 PM PDT

2004/05/11 · 16:20

has a great post by Dwight Meredith (Hey, Dwight! I'm your biggest fan) on how the wingnuts blame Bill Clinton for everything, from 9/11 itself, to the prison torture scandal.

I know I'm pushing the rules for a diary entry, but I've added this line so that it's not a "single-line" diary.

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