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‘Rednecks for Obama’ Making News

Rednecks for Obama are back in the news again today. I wrote about them back in late August. Here’s the latest:
Tony Viessman, 74, and Les Spencer, 60, got politically active last year when it occurred to them there must be other lower income, rural, beer-drinking, gun-loving, NASCAR race enthusiasts fed up with business as usual [...]

Dizzy’s Ten Post Round-Up

Going through some life changes around here and adapting to a new schedule and still finding time to slack off for my mental health (needed some extra time, yesterday, after the FISA bill passed the Senate), so I have been shirking my Round-Up duties.  But, I don’t want to get out of practice (being [...]

The Unmaking of the Democratic Party

There have been comments here (and elsewhere) in recent days/weeks, that the Democratic Party as we know it is slipping away, unraveling and disappearing before our very eyes. Among the issues that are being cited, is as Sean Wilentz articulates in the HuffPo, that “the Barack Obama campaign and its sympathizers have begun to articulate [...]

Kerry and the Washington Establishment-From Someone Who Has Actually Lived “Inside the Beltway”

Metropolitian Washington DC is the LAST place to go to find enthusiasm for Kerry (OK maybe we’ll probably find less enthusiasm for Kerry at a country club in Mississippi, but you get my drift). I’ve lived in the Baltimore and/or DC region my whole life and when it comes to DC Metro area and politics [...]

The Myth of the Red-state Blue-state Map

Blue staters, are you tired of working for a living but being portrayed as a “latte drinking” liberal by meatheaded pundits who think that blue staters are a bunch of rich snobs? Red state Kerry voters, are you tired of having your “values” being thought to be the same as the deluded folks who [...]

NASCAR: It’s Not Just for Republicans

Evidently not all NASCAR enthusiasts are Republicans. The Sylvania 300 in Loudon, NH drew large crowds on Sunday including Senator John Kerry…
Spark plugs: The crowd, estimated at 101,000, gave the track 22 sellouts in as many Cup races. … Among the celebrities on hand Sunday were New Hampshire Gov. John Lynch and U.S. Sen. John [...]