And because your point is spot on.

New school baseball thinking → RR → liberal bias
Old school baseball thinking → 700WLW → ridiculous conservative bias

Seems like we’re the anti-700. Neat.

Even if they’re not jobless they’re typically in a lower paying job and mad at “the old guard” because they have the all important “stuff”. (I looked for the old SNL clip of “I want stuff! Where’s my stuff??” but couldn’t find it in the 4 seconds my attention span allotted, sorry.)

Personally I don’t consider myself a Democrat or Republican. Both sides have views on issues that appeal to my beliefs. I try to weigh one candidate versus another and pick the one who best represents me regardless of party affiliation.

unless something huge happens Obama wins.

I stop there on my trips between hamilton and ada. Their pie is amazing.

At least 20 times a day, someone will come into one of my offices and ask for yardsigns, bumper stickers, etc. Then, after I tell them that I have to personally buy all that crap because the campaign rarely supplies it, they get all pissy and leave. Less than 5% of all the people that come in actually ask what they can do to help. A higher percentage of the walk0ins come in to tell me that there’s a special place in hell for those working for the Antichrist. Invariably, as soon as I get 50 signs in, they get stolen or sprayed with “KKK” 24 hours later. Then these people get more indignant as to why I don’t have more fucking signs.

Anyway, I just don’t get the hate in this race. I’m trying as hard as I can to run a positive campaign out here and half the population of the town I’m in wants me dead. I completely respect the other side, and get told I’m the problem with America 15 times a day. This country is just too god damn polarized right now. It’s driving me insane.

So, sorry that was a rant encompassing both yardsigns and intolerance. I’m just at the end of my string and have no one to shout it to out here

A good hangman’s noose has seven coils. Pfft, amateur.

thats just plain sad

One thing I hope is different with Obama is that the energy will continue past his election. Though it certainly won’t be as intense, with Obama’s community organizing background, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him continue to try and tap the grassroots to help him govern as well. He has alluded to this many times in his stump speech – certainly during the primary he would say it. The campaign doesn’t end on election day. He needs all his supporters to stay engaged and help him pass meaningful legislation. We will see…….

People need to start giving a shit in this country once again regardless of party affiliation. That’s how progress is made, since Congress is keenly aware of the feelings of its constituencies.

I feel compelled to speak up. In my experience most true Libertarians (or third party voters in general) refuse to play the lesser of two evils game. I know some who cast “gum up the system” votes, trying to keep the two parties equal so that nothing can get done (Libertarians want nothing more than their government to do nothing). This is akin to providing arms to a Middle Eastern country fighting a more powerful Middle Eastern country in order to keep the region “stable.” I also knew someone who simply voted against all incumbents. Cincinnatus would be proud.

And Zach, I object to your characterization of McCain not being conservative enough for Libertarians. Libertarians reject the one-dimensional view of politics as a continuum from Left to Right, preferring a two-dimensional model.

All that said my Libertarian ideals are suffering a great crisis right now. This hit particularly close to home:

The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly principled and rigorous in their logic.

…The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world’s failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong.

Tough one. I am expecting things to get really bad. Like, starving in the streets bad.

But Corey Patterson bad?

I gotta think about that one….

when they declared that the Leader of the Free World should have an OBP over .300.

The tagline from the yahoo news photo:

US Republican presidential nominee Senator John McCain (R-AZ) reacts to almost heading the wrong way off the stage after shaking hands with Democratic presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) at the conclusion of the final presidential debate at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, October 15, 2008. REUTERS/Jim Bourg (UNITED STATES) US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN 2008

“Like who?”
“Farmers.”
“Who else?”
“Farmers’ mums.”

Thanks for nothing you deadbeat!

Apparently you’ve done a good job of conveying your age through RR. I had you pegged at 30, FWIW

we voted for Perot. i was a Bush1 supporter in that one, but Perot won our class pretty easily. probably because they were all so short.