shawn avery

i'm thinking about going into politics. i'm not saying i want to run for office, but i wouldn't mind fundraising, marketing, campaign staff, etc. something really strange happens when you hit thirty... you gain weight, enjoy documentaries more than rock concerts, and you actually start looking at not only the "big picture", which i feel i have always done, but the "right picture" - the point of view matched with personal action. heady stuff. my summation of this week - the nation has gone red. although the heavily populated, progressive states held onto reality. in '08 there will be no middling. there will be no centrist pacification. america had it's chance, they made a clear, legal choice. they have four years. the democrats played nice. kerry was respectful, truthful and honorable. in return, he was smeared for a life of service and duty. we on the left figured america would vote based on truth. this was not the case. they voted squarely...

51 - "the moral majority" 49 - "the reality based community" at least we know once and for all where america stands... on it's head. this election has done something truly beautiful for me. it has erased the centrist leanings of my mid/late twenties, and has sent me back to the left. i'm such a naughty bastard. i'm also thankful that i am not a female. the criminalization of abortion awaits. elections are almost too exiting. i voted for the first time last night, and even though i live in the backward state of alabama, and thus had no chance of my vote winning, at least we have scantron ballots. my vote was probably counted. ...a new world order... By Sidney Blumenthal Nov. 3, 2004 | "This country is going so far to the right you are not even going to recognize it," remarked John Mitchell, President Nixon's attorney general, in 1970. Mitchell's prophesy became the mission of Nixon's College Republican president, Karl Rove, who imple...

polls, and more polls kerry now leads bush in newspaper endorsements 45-30. and there are a growing number of papers who endorsed bush in 2000, that now either cannot support either candidate, or has endorsed jkf'04. i think florida will again decide the election this year. in my "research" on the electoral process, lately being done through poly-sci papers and non-network/broadcast sources, i've realized that the magic number is 50. no incumbent president has ever won re-election with public approval ratings below 50 percent. every president, i.e. reagan, clinton, nixon, etc. that has had a 50 rating or above during the final days on a campaign, has won. following the gop's $150 million dollar convention, bush was riding high (for him) at about about 47. (by anyone's standards in the "reality communities", this is still techinically an unpopular president) right now he's at 48-50 depending on the bias of the polling. no president involved in a r...