A new Dem Party has been summoned into existence

Sidney Blumenthal has a great column in the Guardian that covers a lot of ground, from  the The Civil Rights Record of the George W. Bush Administration which (surprise!) has been suppressed, to several reasons for optimism that  with a good GOTV effort Kerry will prevail.

Worth a read for anyone who watches the polls too closely and is feeling anxious or who needs even more motivation to get out there and hit the streets.

Choice excerpt:

...Bush whined that Kerry was practising "the politics of fear". The next day Dick Cheney projected terrorists exploding nuclear weapons within the US, and offered Bush as saviour from looming apocalypse.

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as terror," wrote Edmund Burke. But not even the eve of destruction will stifle turnout.

Full article here.