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Finally someone has recognized why we elect our Presidents based on primitive emotions and not reasoned discourse [Oct. 20]. After 50 years of voting for both Democratic and Republican Presidents, in 2004 I watched dumbfounded as Ohio, which had suffered the loss of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs, voted Bush back into office to pursue four more years of vanity, Constitution-shredding and a high-school-level understanding of geopolitics. It was then that I realized that presidential elections are more about biology than intellect. All Karl Rove had to do was present George W. Bush as the alpha...
...already begun. Tuesday night, CBS' Late Show with David Letterman offered its version of Ventura's Top 10 campaign slogans (No. 7: A Man in Tights Has Nothing to Hide; No. 1: It's the Stupidity, Stupid). TV news shows on Wednesday featured clips of Minnesota's Governor-elect from his World Wrestling Federation days, wearing a feather boa and perching on the ring ropes, haranguing screaming fans. Thursday morning a morose Minnesotan wrote the Minneapolis Star Tribune, "Well, finally we have a Governor who knows how to execute a flying head scissors...
...somewhat pained editorial after the election, the Star Tribune urged citizens to be calm, legislators to be cooperative and the Governor-elect to mend his ways: "The scorn for government he voiced during the campaign was one part ideology, one part showmanship and several parts ignorance. He can't get away with the ignorance any longer...
...Obama pins, stickers, and posters flooded OM Restaurant & Lounge last night as supporters of Democratic nominee Barack Obama gathered to raise money and express their enthusiasm for the upcoming election. The standing-room-only event—entitled Harvard for Change: An Evening with Harvard Faculty for Obama—was hosted by Harvard’s myriad Democratic student organizations, including the Harvard Kennedy School Democratic Caucus, Harvard College Democrats, Harvard Business School Democrats, and Harvard Law School Democrats. Jarret A. Zafran ’09, president of the Harvard College Democrats, stressed the event’s goal...
...this should, theoretically, lay the groundwork for more black Democrats to follow Obama's lead in the future. But some cautious observers worry that an Obama loss would set a catastrophic precedent. The message will be, says Walters, the Maryland professor, "If you can't elect a black person for President in this atmosphere, where all the indicators point to the Democratic Party, including the economy...