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post from Talking Points Memo on 05 November 2008 07:54:00 PM. © Talking Points Memo

Bernard Avishai ...I confess a certain impatience, on this poignant day, with all the earnest talk about how America achieved something remarkable yesterday by electing our first African-American president, as if the choice has been about race all along.[...]

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Confronting the Damned Separationists

post from Jesus' General on 05 November 2008 07:51:00 PM. © Jesus' General

On Friday, I'm going to represent the Red Guard of the Glorious Conservative Christian Cultural Revolution at this weekend's Americans United for the Separation of Church and State conference. I'll do some live blogging while there. The flight and one night in the hotel is comped, but I need to come up with a few buck for food, taxi, gas, parking and the second night in the hotel. If any of you could spare a few bucks to help out, I'd appreciate it. Just click the donation buttons above.

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Krugman: The End Of The Monster Years

post from Crooks and Liars on 05 November 2008 07:45:13 PM. © Crooks and Liars

I got chills reading this brief, but very truthful op-ed from Paul Krugman at the New York Times. Barack Obama's win last night was just one step into the future, lets hope Krugman's words ring loud and clear for future generations - Beware the Monsters...

Last night wasn?t just a victory for tolerance; it wasn?t just a mandate for progressive change; it was also, I hope, the end of the monster years.

What I mean by that is that for the past 14 years America?s political life has been largely dominated by, well, monsters. Monsters like Tom DeLay, who suggested that the shootings at Columbine happened because schools teach students the theory of evolution. Monsters like Karl Rove, who declared that liberals wanted to offer ?therapy and understanding? to terrorists. Monsters like Dick Cheney, who saw 9/11 as an opportunity to start torturing people.

And in our national discourse, we pretended that these monsters were reasonable, respectable people. To point out that the monsters were, in fact, monsters, was ?shrill.?! Read on...

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Obama Is A Fan Of Pitching Over Offense

post from Texas Liberal on 05 November 2008 07:44:15 PM. © Texas Liberal

In a recent New York Times article, Chicago White Sox General Manager Kenny Williams says that his Chicago friend Barack Obama always focuses on pitching when he asks how the White Sox are doing. I found this an agreeable revelation. Pitching and fielding involve a measure of strategy and sophistication in contrast to the vulgarity of the home [...]

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Obama Is A Fan Of Pitching Over Home Runs

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OR-Sen: Maybe Northwesterners Just Count Slowly

post from Daily Kos on 05 November 2008 07:40:04 PM. © Daily Kos

Just like WA-08, it's still a squeaker in Oregon, tied at 47, but Smith has a lead of some 3,400 votes. But, the remaining ballots to be counted are primarily in heavily Democratic Multnomah (Portland) and Lane (Eugene) counties. That's about 32% of the total vote still out there.

Sources tell me that an overly long ballot is reportedly the problem with the count in Oregon, too. The longer ballot, chock full of intiatives, doesn't go through the machines as easily.

Long time politics watcher and pollster Tim Hibbits--the most reliable of the state's pollsters is standing by his prediction of a Merkley win.

"I still think Merkley is going to win," Hibbitts said. "But it's going to be tight, and a lot tighter than I thought it was going to be. We shall see."

Hibbitts said that in his 32 years as an election analyst, he has incorrectly predicted only two out of 900 races. "This could be a third," he said. "But I still feel confident that Merkley will win."

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Hibbitts said this morning that he expects the remaining 190,000 Multnomah County will tip the race in Merkley's favor.

"If you look at the composition of the voter base that's still out, it's going to favor Merkley. But it is possible I will have to eat crow on this one."

More as the ballot counts trickle in.

Update: And more just came in. We're now at 80% counted, and Smith's lead is cut to just about 1,400 votes. Just over 30% of Lane Co. remains to be counted and 40% remains in Multnomah. That's a significant chunk of votes in very, very Democratic parts of the state.

There's ongoing discussion on the race in sarahlane's recommended diary.

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On homophobia and racism

post from AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth on 05 November 2008 07:31:00 PM. © AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth

Reader Bryan writes:

This was a very bad thing that Prop. 9 passed. And from the exit polling data I read alst night via Andrew Sullivan, it looks like African Americans were instrumental in passing Prop. 8 with 70% saying they voted for it. When is someone going to address the bigotry in the black community towards gay people? Gay people need to openly point the finger and say it's not okay to be bigots just because you are black and have suffered yourself! Please talk about Prop. 8 very few blogs are.

I'm glad Obama won, but how come it's expected of me to rise above the anti-black bigotry I was raised with, and go vote for a black man, but then black people can go vote to enshrine bigotry into law and no one challenges that?

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Will The GOP Continue Fighting Voter Access And
Participation

One cannot have watched the folks all across the nation, standing in line to cast their ballots for the last few weeks from the start of early voting through the last ballot at the close yesterday without a bit of a smile. And some understanding of[...]

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AK-Sen: The Alaska situation

Tom Begich, brother of the candidate, explains the current situation up in Alaska:

There are about 60,000 votes out. Of those there are 9500 known Early Votes, 5700 questioned with as many as another 8000 or more questioned ballots (similar to Provisional ballots in some states – in Anchorage these are often teachers and those who work far enough away from their homes, but near a polling place), and 46,000 or so absentee ballots of a substantial number are not mail in but are early vote absentee.

Based on these things, we believe it is possible (I think probably a good 50/50 chance) to win and so Mark has not conceded. We won about 59% of the early voting absentees. Generally have done well with Anchorage Mail in absentees (won a Mayor's race on them) and are likely to do less well in the out of Anchorage absentees. We solidly won rural Alaska, Fairbanks and Southeast and expect to do well with their absentees, though not with Mat-Su, Roads and Kenai.

We also have seen some precinct anomalies that have to be addressed (one precinct shows hardly any votes for Mark and Ted, but large numbers of votes for the two independents – likely a machine calibration error). Given all of this, and many of you know that I crunch numbers all the time, I believe we might still win, but won't know until around the 17th at the earliest.

In a follow-up email, he ads:

This just in from Mark. On our three military bases we won. This has big ramifications for the absentee vote. Here are the numbers:

Ft. Wainwright (Fairbanks): 270 Begich 184 Stevens
Elmendorf AFB (Anchorage): 723 Begich 461 Stevens
Ft. Richardson (Anchorage: 235 Begich 137 Stevens

So another long wait for the will of the voters to be decided as, in another race in which every vote have outsized importance.

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Election 08 The Next Day Rahm Emanuel Named
Obama Chief Of Staff; Condoleezza Rice Literally GUSHES (Video) Over Obama-Biden Victory

Hours After Barry “Steve” Obama Is Elected, He Shreds Any Anti-Israeli Rumors By Selecting Major “Pro-Jewish” Cabinet MemberFirst things FIRST, and a huge H/T goes to Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish on this one — just when I was hoping the “Israel can do no...

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