TWO AMERICAS INDEED

So let's talk about secession.

See, there's this "two Americas" problem that is much more real and substantive than the metaphor used by the Edwards campaign.

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The social attitudes in this country, coupled with the geographic distribution of them, have coalesced into a position from which the Democratic party basically can't win an election. And there's nothing they can do about it. They can't get any rural votes, period. Moving to the left will only make things worse, and moving further to the middle will render any ballot choice we have irrelevant.

The electoral map is frightening. You have the northeast, midwest, and west coast – the nation's centers of population, business, education, media, technology, arts, etc etc – voting one way yet utterly unable to exert any influence on the Presidential races or obtain majorities in Congress.

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The rest of the country, voting on its regressive moral and social agenda, has a fairly insurmountable-looking electoral and distributional advantage in Federal races.

So while I'm half-kidding in mentioning something like secession, you really have to wonder how much longer the northeast, Pacific coast, and industrialized upper midwest are going to stand for Farmer Bob and the hee-haw crowd selecting the President and Congress for them year in and year out.

This looks strangely familiar

Welcome Senators!

I need to put the Presidency aside for a minute (it's way too awful to think about). Another thing to get worried about is the Senate results. Alan Keyes' staunt-pro-life, anti-gay, anti-income-tax, pro-war-hawk platform collapsed in Illinois, and I'm proud to have casted a vote against it (and for Obama). But it turns out that many white men in red states won by running essentially on the same platform.

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NBC interviewed John McCain last night. They congratulated him on his win, and Tim Russert (my favorite, god bless him) jumped at the opportunity to ask "there are many very culturally conservative Republicans entering the Senate, how will that effect more moderates like yourself?
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" McCain dodged it by pointing out moderate Arlen Specter was re-elected, a move that does nothing to address the new major problem of the Republican party.

That problem, which was hinted at during the Republican Convention, is that the party is going to be split between big-name moderates like McCain, Schwarzenegger and Giuliani, who are pro-choice, pro-stem cells, pro-balanced budget and centrists, and bible-thumpers with the most regressive set of social and cultural views imaginable on the other. And the second half of their big tent took a huge win last night. If 1994 was the year that the House ran off to the Right, 2004 may be the year the Senate did. Let's look at some of the winners in the Senate for 2005:

  • Jim Bunning, KY – From USA Today: "Bunning once compared [democratic opponent] Mongiardo's appearance to one of Saddam Hussein's sons."
  • Tom Coburn, OK – from him: "the term `safe sex' is a myth." He has suggested that the CDC was engaged in a criminal conspiracy to hide that fact (side note: Bush had him chair the advisory body on federal AIDS policy). To the AP, his own words: "I favor the death penalty for abortionists and other people who take life.
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