>PS: Re the business of the "divided left" (W Barber) -- I'm not seeing
>that in the numbers. Could you point that out? For instance, do they
>report "spoilt" votes -- were people turning up and signalling their
>dissatisfaction with the candidates by spoiling their votes? If not, where
>then is the "divided left"? They just stayed home? If so, then I think it
>would not be hyperbolic to say the world wishes to thank them for having
>handed us another four years of Bush -- may they be damned!
I'm not seeing it either. http://www.dailykos.com/
If anyone ought to be disgruntled democrats, these guys are. They have real problems with the DP insiders before this. And yet, they have always said this was a battle in a long war and it still is. They never intended to stop. But what are they organizing for? The democratic party. They are not organizing for a third party. They are refusing to abandon the Democrats.
As Naomi Kline suggested a couple of months ago, the fridge magnet politics will continue -- and it's going to get more serious. You can bet that even more money will come from the coffers of wealthy George Soros of the nation if Shrub and the neocons get out of hand. And you can bet that everyone who was pissed at Shrubya will be even more pissed at him.
My prediction. The Busheviks are going to retaliate against the dissenting ranks--they have a long history of doing so. IF any party is going to disintegrate (relatively speaking), it'll be the Republicans. They're grooming who for 2008? Rudy? You can bet a wing nutter or two is going to be running on the right.
Kelley
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