Wednesday, April 1, 2009

NY-20

It's evidently not over, and too close to call. There are more ballots to count, of course, but rumors that the GOP will take to the courts here as well if they lose seems to me like the sort of thing that will backfire big time. Any Democrat with a brain would start making the argument, between Scott Murphy, Al Franken and, what the hell, Al Gore, that Republicans are now in the business of taking to the courts whenever the election is close and they don't like the result. Democrats could push that meme hard, and I don't really see any upside here for Republicans. If they want to keep Franken's election permanently bottled up it seems like not establishing a trend of taking to the courts when you don't like the decision is a better bet. After all, it's only a House seat, and a Democratic held one at that.
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The Man, The Myth, The Bio

East Bay, California, United States
Problem: I have lots of opinions on politics and culture that I need to vent. If I do not do this I will wind up muttering to myself, and that's only like one or two steps away from being a hobo. Solution: I write two blogs. A political blog that has some evident sympathies (pro-Obama, mostly liberal though I dissent on some issues, like guns and trade) and a culture blog that does, well, cultural essays in a more long-form manner. My particular thing is taking overrated things (movies, mostly, but other things too) down a peg and putting underrated things up a peg. I'm sort of the court of last resort, and I tend to focus on more obscure cultural phenomena.