• 08:45 what a difference four years makes. #
• 09:12 disappointed: California enshrines discrimination in its constitution. #
• 12:24 Ohio made me happy. Indiana made me amazed. California made me confused. #

• 10:48 can't remember the last time I've felt this good about an election day, and I voted a week ago. Maybe when So. Africa voted ~15 years ago. #
• 19:33 watching election results via Twitter, e.g. tinyurl.com/5upg2v #

Remember when I mentioned that there would be a lawsuit about the Ohio vote?

Now you can go read the 93-page lawsuit, and the related motion for injunction against the Electors submitting their votes.
Or go read a summary at dKos ( Read more... )

I figured that Ken Blackwell (both Ohio campaign chair for Bush and in charge of voting for Ohio) had probably manipulated the Ohio vote somehow, but I never expected that we'd get this close to proving it ( Read more... )

I'm a bit numbed by the election and the political outcome (about which I may have more to say later), and have been focusing more on issues closer to home that I have a little more control over.

But if you're the sort of person that still wants to deal with the big issues right now (masochist!), here are a couple of articles....

• The Problem with ( Read more... )

Election day is almost here, and it can't come fast enough for me. Among other things, it means the end of my (physical) mailbox and answering machine being filled with Republican lies. "John Kerry will raise your taxes"? Nope, not unless you make at least $200,000 a year. (And if you do, were your taxes really that bad under Clinton? Cause ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from Daily Kos, where you can take the poll if you register)

I'm a registered Democrat sitting here in North Canton, Ohio, a Republican-leaning suburb in a swing county in Jeff Seemann's district. And I just got a phone call from George W. Bush.

( Read more... )

So, any bets on who Kerry picks as Vice President ( Read more... )

The second of two entries inspired by chronarchy's newfound anti-Republicanism

In the run-up to the Democratic primaries, I supported Howard Dean. One of the reasons I did goes back to a conversation I had with autumnfey a few years ago after she moved to Vermont. She had said that Vermont was deeply divided between the conservative farmers and the liberal hippies ( Read more... )