Maggie's Farm

I am with Right Wing Prof on this

The NYT was spinning so fast that they can't stop now. Or maybe they will be spinning in their grave.

What's "middle class," and why does the Liberal elite have contempt for it?

I'm not dead yet! SDA. Sheesh. We need more laws against hate!

Related: From Thomas Frank: Liberals shouldn't be overconfident.

Whither affirmative action? Thompson. Unless you want to make the case that we stuck a black guy with the most thankless job on earth.

Related, re Bush via Roger Simon:

Our failure to stand by the one person who continued to stand by us has not gone unnoticed by our enemies. It has shown to the world how disloyal we can be when our president needed loyalty — a shameful display of arrogance and weakness that will haunt this nation long after Mr. Bush has left the White House.

Also related: Will everyone get a pony?

We get a photo of Coyote. I think he's the one on the left. Just one more Princeton blogger.

Still spinning despair at the LAT, but as Surber notes:

Yes, yes, yes. I see. Unemployment is 6%. Gasoline prices are a whopping $2 a gallon. The Dow is 9,000. People are actually paying cash for things.

Run for your lives.

I read stuff like this online and I am reminded of reporter Ken Herman’s observation: “If there’s anything reporters know better than math, it’s fashion.”

Was this a "I want my Mommy" election? I don't think so, mostly.

From Insty:

RUNNING THE NUMBERS: "More generally, the picture is of a solid Democratic win, but not the tsunami some had expected. Obama won the popular vote by a solid, but not crushing, margin of slightly less than six percent (52.4-46.5). Bill Clinton beat Bob Dole by a significantly greater margin and even greater relative percentage (49.25-40.71), and George Bush by a slightly lower margin, but higher relative percentage (43.01-37.45). Bush, meanwhile, beat Dukakis by a larger margin, 53.4 to 45.6. The Democrats picked up about twenty House seats, on the low end of the expected range. And, as noted above, they seem likely to pick up five or six Senate seats,which would make the Senate races either 18-16 in favor of the Democrats, or tied at 17-17, again on the low end of the expected range."

VDH wonders how Obama will govern. I agree that he deliberately made himself a mystery man. One of VDH's comments:

I don’t know what Obama feels about drilling, nuclear power, FISA, NAFTA, capital punishment, abortion, guns, Iran, the surge, Jerusalem, campaign financing, etc. But I do get the impression that he is more or less cognizant that most of his views around 2006 were at odds with the American people’s, and so he had to change or drop them (and most of his social circle) to get elected, or at least mention them only at small private gatherings in San Francisco.

The mystery? Will he revert back to the constant Obama of the last 30 years who waged  dirty 1996 and 2004 campaigns, and shared apparently ideologies with Ayers, Khalidi, Pfleger, and Wright and others in his Chicago extremist cadre? Or will he govern as a center-leftist, corralling a Frank, Pelosi, and Reed and the most fringe beyond them?