Comments | jpmassar: Yesterday was Election Day

jpmassar

Yesterday was Election Day

Sep 14, 2011 11:40

Democrats got trounced. (Aside from the fact that they went six for six in New York State Assembly races ( Read more... )

democrats, special elections, republicans, nevada, new york

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schmengie September 14 2011, 19:31:45 UTC

538 had pretty balanced look at this today
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/14/for-democrats-its-2010-all-over-again/

jnala September 15 2011, 01:15:51 UTC

Not right now, it's not the dry heat. WTF thunderstorms for days. This is NOT the desert I signed up for.

jpmassar September 15 2011, 17:05:42 UTC

I hear southern Libya is nice this time of year.

wild_irises September 15 2011, 14:40:56 UTC

I am reading James McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom which is really a remarkably fine book, even if it doesn't live up to Ta-Nehisi Coates' impossible claim that it's the best single-volume history book ever written.

And I'm getting a lot out of it, but the thing that's germane to this post is how quickly both sides would lose hope and/or get cocky depending on the result of the last battle. In August of 1864, absolutely no one (including Lincoln) believed Lincoln could be re-elected. He had started to make public plans for how to support his successor. And then Sherman took Atlanta.

jpmassar September 15 2011, 17:10:03 UTC

We could start a peoples' march on Ottawa. But we only have a few weeks before the snow would bury us.