Just to reinforce what some of my friends, such as ellen and anghara have stated, the Public Option in Health Care Reform is not only a necessity, it is also far from being abandoned. Heres is a graphic that shows the last few opinion polls on the subject:


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There's been a lot of flap in the media lately about Yo-yo Ma and Itzakh Perlman supposedly "lip syncing" since the version most of us (Including the 2 million folks on the Greens) heard was actually recorded from the night before, and at the actual Inauguration the musicians just played in sync with themselves. Yet play they did, as anyone ( Read more... )

Many of us who have posted the quote about not wanting do-righters (in both senses of the world) nose into our bedrooms will appreciate this impassioned plea from Kenneth Olbermann about Proposition 8 in CA, a powerful commentary broadcast by MSNBC on the eve of last Tuesday's otherwise victorious election. You will find it by following this link.

As we close this week that saw a momentous change in the thinking of this nation, with a huge win for the forces of progressive thinking and for bringing change, I found myself humming the two musical themes of Stanley Kubrick's monumental 1968 film 2001: A space Odyssey (both the Richard Strauss awe-inspiring, dawn-of-the-world ascending chords ( Read more... )

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Georgia Senate race will be decided in a run-off election, with the odious Saxby Chambliss (the one who won so dirtily against Max Cleland six years ago) competing head-to-head with Democrat Jim Martin. Chambliss has slipped below the 50% threshold and by Georgia law there is an automatic runoff in ( Read more... )

Our days in the desert are about to end. As larryhodges rightly said, this marks the end of one of the worst era in history: the Reagan-Gingrich-Bush years. It took a storm of great magnitude to lead us out, and that was yesterday's monumental, history-making election. The deafening cheers of the Grant Park victory party in Chicago are still resounding in my ( Read more... )

According to this enlightening article from the Huffington Post, you can trust bookmakers and gamblers more than pollsters. Which in a way stands to reason - after all, if you bet on the outcome of an election and do so poorly, you're out a lot of dough!
So... you might find it reassuring that the odds on Obama winning tomorrow are 8 to 1.

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OK, let me get this straight: Palin is being sniped at by the McCain staff for being a "Diva" and positioning herself for "political future". I don't blame her about the latter (anyone aboard the sinking Exxon Valdez would jump off and try to swim to shore and beat the oil slick if possible), but what about the former ( Read more... )

Wow, the last time I attended a political rally was for Walter Mondale, in downtown Des Moins, IA (I was then artistic director of the Des Moines Ballet, and naive enough to think that Mondale had a chance... as I recall, he did edge out in IA, but bombed elsewhere ( Read more... )