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November 4th, 2008

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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 11:38 am
I've been rereading my 2004 election post-mortem. I'm reasonably pleased with how well it still stands. I'm very glad to have been wrong about the Democrats lurching to the right. For the most part, though, I don't think (with the beautiful exception that is the Obama campaign) that we've actually become that much smarter about the media. We've been facing a largely incompetent, corrupt, demoralized, completely out of touch opposition. With luck1 that will continue through 2010, but I don't want this to be a repeat of the Carter administration.

1: With real luck the GOP will spend a couple cycles divided, with the corporate conservatives fighting the social conservatives for control, maybe even calving off a couple (short-lived) new parties in the process.
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 04:37 pm
Greetings from the Stranger election party! The group sitting next to us brought their own electoral college map and whiteboard.

It's not often that I'm completely outclassed as a politics geek. :)
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 08:24 pm
I've never yelled 'Florida!' that loudly before.