Krugman could ride my grandmother in the inaugural parade, because if she had wheels, she’d be a trolly-bus.

At $1000 an hour*, you too can have drones of your very own waiting, waiting, waiting… just as soon as the paperwork flap with the FAA gets worked out.

*Hellfire missiles extra.

I knew one of the big foundations was rolling the non-voter stone, but it’s Pew, not Annenberg.

They’ve got a lot of stuff on 2010…

Be my guest. The data’s freely available and I’ve been banging on about it biennially for a decade with no detectable impact.

There’s an immutable belief in vast numbers of non-voters, all, or mostly all, to the left of the folks who presently turn out, who are just waiting for the call to expropriate the expropriators from an appropriately radical figure — and it turns out to be mostly logistics keeping folks from the polls.

I’ve been a DSA/USA member since DSOC days. I’d like to believe it’s so, too, but there’s no evidence to support it, but it goes soldiering on.

It’s too late for the nauga… all that can be found are a few mounted specimens in thrift stores.

Sniff….

….you have to ignore every bit of his record and his personality except his passivity towards big business to say he’s a Republican.

And so one ignores it. One does what one must do, to make the point one wants to make. Few of us are innocent of the same crime.

Which is just as well. In the same way that the demand for LL Bean windbreakers has caused the anorak to be hunted to the brink of extinction, the population of scapegoats, this being an election year, is also under tremendous pressure, thanks to the internet.

I’m thinking of beginning a captive-breeding program.

Yeah, but it’s a spreadsheet, and that’s the problem. I’m more comfortable with data-free, off-the-cuff snark, attacks on people’s personalities, and my own cherished nostrums.

‘Not interested’ and ‘Too busy’ lead the list, along with ‘other’, ‘out of town’ or ‘sick’

You could I suppose argue that these are just proxies for ‘no sufficiently revolutionary candidates presented themselves’….

Declined to give a reason is only 3%.

FWIW, the Vanishing Voter Project (Kennedy School of Government/Annenberg) did a big study on this topic a decade ago, and discovered that the ideological profile of non-voters was mildly, but only mildly, less conservative than that of the electorate that shows up.

Tumbrels and pitchforks don’t seem to fall into the ambit of ‘if you build them, they will come’.

The Census actually asks non-voters why they didn’t vote. “Did not like candidates or campaign issues” isn’t one of the top four or five reasons given…and hasn’t been for decades. (Link is to Excel spreadsheet. CSV version of data also available)

The respondents could all be lying because the Census is just The Man, with a clipboard, of course… and waiting, just waiting.

It’s been a hundred years, and here we are, still basically trying to figure out whether it’s permissible to support M. Millerand’s appointment to the Waldeck-Rousseau cabinet without selling out the Revolution…

Taunt away, you O-bot.

The worse things get for the worse the better, the better.

Mistah Debs. He dead.

I don’t think as a rule you’ll find a very…. nuanced grasp of post-Treaty, pre-WWII Irish politics in the white-supremacist community.

Or generally, for that matter. I don’t think we can consider US Rep. Peter King (R-IRA) a Socialist fellow traveler.

What’s up with the shamrock?

IRA resistance in Ulster (fighting the Empire) meets South Boston ca. 1975 (White, white, white…

The Aryan Brotherhood also uses/used a Celtic cross, but that just confuses people. They look at the tatoo, and think “A prison gang composed of Enya fans…what’s up with that? “

He’ll be an even bigger hit than Pat Buchanan was in Houston in ’92, is my prediction.

Joe Donnelly is no prize, either. As if what the Senate Democratic caucus needs is another Joe “Nighthorse” Manchin.

Maybe he’ll have a conversion experience contemplating Mourdock, instead of trying to become virtually indistinguishable from him.

How the hell do you think Ronald Reagan got big tax cuts through a democratic House and a Senate with less than 60 GOP VOTES?

Tax cuts are popular? Half the Demcocrats in the Senate and House are Republicans? Filibustering everything wasn’t the norm yet? The Senate wasn’t actually Democratic?

Just spit-balling here….

Early in my time in the Senate, [ed. 2008] single-payer proponents–led by organizers from the California Nurses Association–visited to seek Senator Kennedy’s support for single payer as the path to national reform. We asked them how many senators they knew supported their preference. “We haven’t done a head count,” they said, and they never provided one. Senator Kennedy’s health team had done one–the Medicare for All legislation he sponsored earlier in the decade had garnered zero cosponsors.

Inside National Health Reform, by John E. McDonough, p.44.

No, no, that’s just asking for Freedom™!

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