shawn avery

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...

i think my body is starting to reject the 2004 election. i happened about 1:15 this afternoon... i decided to do some more reading on the election... electoral analysis... speeches, more polls... then i read the jon stewart vs. cnn/crossfire transcript. naturally i wanted some video of the argument on the crossfire episode - so i googled for a while. after a few minutes of not finding the clip i wanted, i got all anxious-like. then my tummy felt strange. it's around this time that i suspect my liver began to fail. it's a cliche, but it holds true for politics as well... everything is fine in moderation. i'm taking a break from the election for about 24 hours. so here's one last link about the election for a while. it's a big one. an empirical study that concludes that bush supporters have about as much of a command of "real facts" as bush has of the english language... "bush supporters still believe iraq had w.m.d." so anyway - tonight... i'm...

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...

i started the weekend early (thurs) with a group outing to a haunted house, did some editing on some of the tracks we recorded earlier in the year, saturday night i hung out with amber and judah... and we did lunch on sun at rojo. did more yardwork...and continued to read profusely on the election. factcheck.org, salon, ny times, time, newsweek, etc. i can't even estimate how many speeches i've watched and read, from both sides... i've listened to npr, talk radio, cnn, fox, pbs, internet radio. I would say that i am among the most informed of the peasants.