Found In A Fortune Cookie Yesterday

"Discontent is the first step

in the progress of a man or a nation."

Electioning

So I was in line at my polling place at 6:00, in the rain, sans coat or umbrella. Thankfully, a nice young lady was willing to share her umbrella, and we chatted quite a bit.

I finally voted at 8:30, and when I left, the lines were just as long as when I first got there, spanning three blocks. I'm glad I went early.

A Dutch radio reporter interviewed the people I was standing with and me, asking whether we believed that Virginia was going to go blue. The other folks were pretty confident it is going to -- I am less so, but I kept that to myself. Then the guy asked whether a McCain supporter would be comfortable declaring who they were going to support, and we all agreed no, at least not the area we were in, an urban area with a population which tends to be heavily African-American and college kids, along with single professionals such as myself. The reporter was last seen searching for someone who was going to vote for McCain. And by searching, I mean wandering away while yelling "WHO HERE'S GONNA VOTE FOR MCCAIN??"

WE LOVE BIG MOTHER.

So, Sarah Palin?

[Former Wasilla Mayor John] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.
Time, via The AV Club.

I've said it before: if nothing else, this should prove to be a very interesting election cycle.