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A Pathetic Party Turns To Puerto Rico For Help

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Photo from The Puerto Rico Herald And no, this isn't another awkward and weird photo op between John McCain and Daddy Yankee However, it is let another paradigm of how awful the state of this party is right now. The Sad Obnxious Party (SOP), needing to go out of the country in order to find some hope, any hope, for their deteriorating party humors the soul and makes you wonder, when will the nadir be the nadir for them. We all know the SOP is virtually a regional party now, as the South is the last remaining comfort zone at the moment (and Utah and Oklahoma as well, with sadness bestowed to those who live there who know better than their state's majorities). But who knew that they would go way down South, passed the borders, to Puerto Rico, to stimulate their unstimulated movement. That is what happens when desperation sets in, as the RNC looks to a new nutcase to galvanize their stable of , well, mentally unstables. That latest golden figure is new Puerto Rico governor Luis Fo...

The Sleep Time and Rise "n"Shine Thread for 10/21-22/08, Part 2:Black People Are Voting Early, According to WSJ

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(Photo from the Associated Press, via the Wall Street Journal) Tremendous news indeed. Despite a little semi-weird title from the nevertheless great TPM.... Disproportionate Number Of African-Americans Casting Early Ballots ....African-Americans are turning out not only in big numbers, but they (and I can use "we" since I'm black, and you can use "we" since you are American if you aren't black) are voting early!!!! Americans are voting early in large numbers this year -- and African-Americans in several states are turning out in disproportionate numbers. Some fear that polling places in predominantly black neighborhoods will be overwhelmed by a record turnout on Election Day. Others are voting early to be certain the chance to elect the first black U.S. president doesn't slip away. There are a lot of great quotes in this wonderful story reported by the Wall Street Journal of all Murodochian papers. For example, this one: During the lunch rush at the poll...