If the Republicans lose tonight, they’ll have gotten what they deserved. I hope that at least they’ll do some soul searching.
Unfortunately, the Democrats will have gotten what they didn’t and don’t deserve–political power, in wartime.
We really need a new party.
N. Z. Bear (where does he find the time to program this stuff?) has set up a very readable page to track election results as they come in.
According to the betting at Tradesports, the Republicans have a 66-69% chance of retaining the Senate, which is down from a few days ago.
Yet the Democrats are ahead in all of Tradesports
Greg Mankiw has some thoughts. I don’t believe that high voter turnout is an intrinsically desirable goal, which is why I’m opposed to “motor voter” and other means designed to increase participation. If people aren’t willing to do a little work for their franchise, they don’t deserve it, as far as I’m concerned. The goal should be informed votes, with quality, not quantity. Of course, that wouldn’t work out well for the Dems.
They had to evacuate the OPF due to a hydrazine leak yesterday. But they plan to continue to use hypergolics in Orion.
Just one more sign of business as usual at NASA.
For those stuck to computers, follow the goings on at Pajamas Media.
From Lileks. He seems a little pessimistic (perhaps with good reason–we’ll find out as the sun goes down across the nation):
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Bill Whittle has a new essay up. It’s (as usual) a long one, but worth reading. I’ve only gotten started, but this bit appealed immediately, given how many moron trolls have repeatedly made the argument over the past few weeks in comments:
CHICKENHAWKS
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Donald Sensing thinks that there’s only one issue in this election.
Despite how pathetic the Republicans are on most other issues*, I agree.
On terrorism, novelist Roger L. Simon quoted Leon Trotsky:
The CPUSA has endorsed the Democrats. And the libertarians are supposed to? Really? You’d have to have a real bad case of cognitive dissonance.