brief political rant

[rm]

Telling me that you know a gay person who likes Palin and that I should therefore calm down about your voting decision that you seem to be waving in my face as some bizarre display of supposed intellectual superiority does not, in any way, make you less obnoxious or less of a bigot. Similarly, bandying about your wild and crazy past does not, in any way, make your casual desire to restrict my freedoms less sinister. And finally, while it may not be personal to you, it's personal to me.

The Republicans keep framing this election in militaristic terms, so let me spell it out for you in words you can understand. You may be in this fight because you like to fight; more power to you. Believe it or not, I really get it. I wish I could be in this fight just for the frivolities of my nature too; might be fun. But I can't.

Elections like this are a fight for my life. And if you think that's hyperbole? Congrats on the luxury.

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[sethg]

Presidential candidates always go up in the polls, temporarily, after the party convention; not surprising, since the convention gives them a few days of free and mostly-unrebutted advertising.

We'll have a better sense of the race in a week or two, after that "convention bump" has faded, after the next "significant election event that everyone wants to talk about" happens, and after more individual state polls come in. (The swing states this year are apparently Ohio, Michigan, Colorado, and Virginia, and judging from the FiveThirtyEight.com chart, they haven't been polled since August.)