It's not like they didn't warn us that this would happen if we allowed same-sex marriage.

F'ing idiot!

Bob teamed with Louis they could rule the world.

Um, I think Xrandadu was joking?

Ha ha you said "bare the responsibility." Bare means nekkid, Asshole. You meant bear.

There's nothing wrong with young siblings bathing together. It's the repressed moralizers, the preachers, the Christian zealots who seem to do most of the incest, child abuse, etc. Leave us liberals out of your perverse Adam and Eve and the serpent view of human biology.

But as someone working in public health emergency preparedness at the local level, and very busy this week obviously, I'm glad we have Obama and science-based decision making in place

You are my favorite writer at Salon. Now I am closer to understanding why that is so.

Hallelujah!

The original documentary was sad and compelling like watching a wreck on the highway. A remake? I don't understand any need for it, except exploiting pathos for money.

I wish I had a couple friends I could meet for coffee, confide in, good friends like when I was in high school or college. A guy down the street who would run with me or play chess. Not going to happen. I don't need any advice about join a church or volunteer organization. I am well liked and well respected in my small town, involved in a lot of causes and events. I have to agree with the guy who said that men just aren't going to have friends.

Hey Calvin Coolidge, you must have a little pedantic -- right between your legs. Why don't you sign your real name, you troll posing as economist.

Rock on, RR!

I couldn't see Kate Winslet's breasts at all in that black gown. I guess I'm not smart enough to understand what Ms. Paglia's talking about.

Lincoln and FDR never had to dicipher such dumbass questions. What does "have a beer with" mean anyhow? Is it euphemism used by Log Cabin Republicans ? (Obligatory: not that there's anything wrong with that.) Bush won two elections (sort of almost) because he was the prefered beer buddy (though he professed sobriety.) God help us all, our nation's been dumbed down so far (except I don't bleieve in a Supreme Being, oops, there goes my political career).

Every time I see that stupid GB logo I think of the Green Bay Packers. That is all I came here to say, Comrades.

Readers really want

dastardly deeds done by dark

despicable men

Or saucy wenches

With pert breasts displayed like fresh

Friut on a platter

Pale reflections and

Languidly drifting words by

Garrison Keillor

This seems to have rankled some -- a bit too close to the truth? Of course the USA had an advantage in that when the industrial rev came along, it had its own continent (hemisphere?) to mine (plunder?) for resources. nothing expands forever, except maybe the universe

If 66 percent of all adults voted in the presidential election, and roughly half of them voted for Bush (I think he got about 49% vs Gore and 51 vs Kerry?), then 33 percent of the respondants might have voted for Bush, as in half of the 66 percent who voted. Get it?

Also, as has been pointed out, if more people came of age or immigrated since those elections, that further dilutes the poll. It's likely that at least one-third of those polled didn't vote for anyone in 2000 or 2004.

Far from having bought the election, I think the record fundraising was a pre-vote on Obama (and Bush). I'm sure the differencial in the number of contributors was even greater, as Obama had more small donors. In a way, the money gap represented more a predictor of the outcome than a cause.

59 senators = bad

41 senators = good

I guess I'm not understanding the math here.

told our jokes about Hoosiers; no doubt they said the same or worse about us.

The Obama campaign has been a great step in the right direction toward a "post-racial" America -- not necessarily one where people don't notice differences in skin tone or culture (how bland would that be!), but one in which they are not a factor in elections. Clearly, race mattered to some degree to many voters -- that it was, according to your data, a net "plus," is a reflection of changing demographics of the electorate. The Jim Crow era voters are dying. College education rates are high among the younger Boomers like I (b. 1959, grew up in mixed race areas of Louisville, remember the 60s and the school busing battles of the 70s) and those born after the Civil Rights movement. For almost half the electorate, Martin Luther King is not a memory but a holiday and an icon. A larger turnout rate among minorities may have offset the influence of those for whom a candidiate's Blackness was still a negative. So yes, let's celebrate progress. May there be much more of it in the next 8 years.

Klytus, I came here to mention The Tenant, but you beat me to it. Scared me a lot when I saw in in Urbana in 1978. I remember an homage to Psycho and the swirling blood in the drain when the camera spins into a hole in a bandaged face.

The Exorcist scared the bejeesus out of me -- book and movie.

Perfect

it would be brilliant: visit your dying WHITE grandmother, the one demographic where Obama's not leading in swing states.

ONLY THING IS>>> it's not a tactic. She's his granmother and she's dying. I am so glad I didn't renew my subscription and support this despicable excuse for "liberal media." It makes me sick to think I even read your report.

(see above)

2020 Jindal/Bush (George P.)

2024 Jindal/Bush

2028 Bush/Palin (Bristol)

This is fun. Maybe someone else will add a few more.

I recall Swift advocated eating Irish babies. You satirists are all so

hungry. :)