I'm in Texas. Not much happening here. How much more exciting can it be after the Repub candidate in NY-23 dropped out and endorsed the Dem candidate? Damnedest thing I've seen in politics this year and it has been an eventful year so far.

conservatives electing (pun intended) to stand or fall on their actual substantive principles, rather than whatever mushy moderate casserole they think will get them a seat or two. That's assuming "winning races" is not itself a substantive principle---I do understand that for most practical purposes it has to be considered such. But even in that wheelhouse GOPers will never regain the national whip hand unless they learn to distinguish, win or lose, between conservative and "Republican". They may well lose even more disastrously with genuine conservatives---if so, so be it---but they'll never ever win with Doles and McCains and Scozzafazas.

Scozzafaza showed her true colors as a prog mole by endorsing the Democratic candidate. Luckily, that endorsement might be just what Hoffman needs to coast to victory.

New Yorkers love to do whatever ladies from Alaska tell us to do.

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I live in another town in the Houston area.

My end or yours? (Stay out of it with the tiresome innuendoes, A & S)

I did hear about the Altlanta mayoral race. There's serious controversy brewing down there. Seems some folks think they'd like to consider this white woman a valid candidate for the job. The gall! Before slavery is forgotten, and the anger and victim-entitlement which goes along with that memory? I don't think so.

Colorado is close enough. New Yorkers will end up with their pants charmed off (A & S!) by the Unsinkable Winker, Sarah Palin.

-- here's a poem about voting just as the polls are closing

WHY I VOTED THE SOCIALIST TICKET by Vachel Lindsay

I am unjust, but I can strive for justice.
My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness.
I, the unloving, say life should be lovely.
I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.

Man is a curious brute — he pets his fancies —
Fighting mankind, to win sweet luxury.
So he will be, tho’ law be clear as crystal,
Tho’ all men plan to live in harmony.

Come, let us vote against our human nature,
Crying to God in all the polling places
To heal our everlasting sinfulness
And make us sages with transfigured faces.

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I know it's just a mayoral race, but it's.....city residents who vote, and the city is one of the five or so most important in the United States.

I don't understand American lassitude when it's election day. To Obama's credit he alleviated that enormously but it needs to stick and expand outside his immediate sphere of influence.

I laughed the other day watching coverage of the German election where Merkel won reelection. They were bemoaning the lowest turnout in quite a while....75% or so!

It's a little too cold for pants removal in the 23rd, but I think Sarah just got hers handed back to her.

I think there are a great number of people who feel that no matter who they vote for, things are going to stay pretty much the same. It's hard to overcome that kind of inertia. I don't know enough about German politics to be able to explain their turnout vs ours, but they sure do pay high taxes, and yet keep voting for the same gal.

interview, and those wishing her consigned to oblivion have said it numerous times since. But she's bigger than ever, with no end in yet in sight. Above on Ryerson's thread I made the case for Palin's big win last night. Don't hate her cuz she's beautiful, Iso. Or ignorant.

the German people versus ours. Heck, they had the same or higher turnouts during the Weimar nadirs. The consider it a civic duty. We ask, "What's in it for me, and does that outweigh my momentary inconvenience?"

Remember, the default position in NY is Dem, so most of the time the local elections are a waste of time and money. That's why we fought for term limits twice, and why Bloomberg is an asshole for bargaining with city council to remove them. Even though I'm glad he's mayor again, it doesn't make it ok that we have Slush Fund Quinn (as my husband calls her) and her sidekick Slimy Vallone, Jr. back in office.

And I don't hate her. I find her antics amusing.