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November 6th, 2008
 
While running a few errands today, I was flipping through stations on the car radio and happened upon an outlet for Relevant Radio, an all-Catholic network.
A caller was making a big deal out of the fact that the numbers drawn in the Illinois Lottery Pick Three game on Wednesday, the day after the election, were 666. To some religious fanatics, 666 has something to do with the anti-Christ.
The caller on the radio was implying that the lottery numbers were a sign that our newly-elected president is the anti-Christ. The same theory is spreading like wildfire on the Internet.
Check THIS from FreeRepublic.com, a popular Web site among right-wing wackos.
Oh, and consider another theory.  We’re talking about people whose collective I.Q. is represented by this number: 000.
November 6th, 2008
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Most news organizations decided today that Barack Obama has won North Carolina’s 15 electoral votes. Missouri, with 11 votes, remains too close to call, but I figure John McCain will prevail there.
So, Obama is likely to end up with 364 electoral votes.
The only Applesaucer who correctly predicted that figure was David Barrett (pictured above), who submitted his guess at 1:23 p.m. on Monday (see Comment No. 23 on THIS POST).
Congratulations, Dave.
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Yeah, why wait until the guy actually becomes president?
The time for ACTION is now!
November 6th, 2008
THIS is a sign of the times.
November 6th, 2008
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Jed Lewison NAILS IT with respect to a question I raised here yesterday (four posts down from this one).
POSTSCRIPT: THIS GUY, too, has some interesting thoughts.
POSTSCRIPT II: Here’s a WEALTH OF DATA published last year on the left-right question of American politics.
November 6th, 2008
 
David Corn has a GREAT ESSAY this morning on the meaning of Barack Obama’s defeat of John McCain.
Here’s an especially provocative passage:
“In the general election campaign, McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, turned the fight for the presidency into a culture clash. They accused Obama of being a socialist. They assailed him for having associated with William Ayers, a former, bomb-throwing Weather Underground radical,who has since become an education expert. Palin indirectly referred to Obama’s relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, who once preached fiery sermons denouncing the United States government for certain policies. On the campaign trail, Palin suggested there were ‘real’ parts of America and fake parts. At campaign events, she promoted a combative, black-helicopter version of conservatism: if you’re for government expansion, you’re against freedom. During her one debate with Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, she hinted that if her opponents won the White House there might come a day when kids would ask their grandparents what it had been like to live in a free country. At McCain-Palin rallies, supporters shouted out, ‘Communist!’ and ‘terrorist!’ and ‘Muslim!’ when the Republican candidates referred to Obama. And McCain and Palin hurled the standard charges at Obama: he will raise your taxes and he is weak on national security.
“Put it all together and the message was clear: there are two types of Americans. Those who are true Americans — who love their nation and cherish freedom — and those who are not. The other Americans do not put their country first; they blame it first. The other Americans do not believe in opportunity; they want to take what you have and give it to someone else. The other Americans do not care about Joe the Plumber; they are out-of-touch elitists who look down on (and laugh at) hard-working, church-going folks. The other Americans do not get the idea of America. They are not patriots. And it just so happens that the other America is full of blacks, Latinos, gays, lesbians, and non-Christians.”
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I probably could be persuaded to change the order of the following (except for No. 1), and I might have forgotten something that belongs on this list, but these are the biggest problems off the top of my head:
1. Choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.
2. Attacking Barack Obama’s patriotism and character.
3. Lying about Obama’s tax plan.
4. Surrounding himself with lobbyists and proteges of Karl Rove.
5. Awkwardly botching the “suspension” of his campaign to deal with the financial crisis.
6. Failing to convey a central theme of his candidacy.
7. Playing the prisoner-of-war card much too often.
8. Extolling small-town values as superior to those of metropolitan areas.
9. Overplaying the “maverick” image.
10. Pretending to be a guardian against Obama’s “socialism.”
UPDATE: Here’s a REPORT on turmoil in the McCain-Palin camp in the final days.
November 6th, 2008
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