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• Fetch my tiny violin

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  “Stage Right” at Big Hollywood, in the midst of a post complaining about Sesame Street (really), gives us this gem:

  don’t tell me, “If you don’t like it change the channel.”  There are no channels left! It’s everywhere. Just last week I had Obama’s service and volunteerism promoted on every single [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:33pm EST
  by Jeff Rosenberg

• Voting on Tuesday is so two centuries ago

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  Every election day, I’m reminded of how silly it is that we vote on Tuesdays. Why is it that election day is the “first Tuesday after the first Monday” of November?

  In 1845, before Florida, California, and Texas were states or slavery had been abolished, Congress needed to pick a time [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  by Jeff Rosenberg

• Nationwide, a few GOP victories, one major upset for Dems

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  In the two gubernatorial races being watched nationwide, there weren’t any major surprises as Virginia and New Jersey did what they’ve done for a couple of decades now — elect a Governor of the opposite party from that in power in Washington:

  Since 1989, the party holding the White House has gone on [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 7:00am EST
  by Jeff Rosenberg

• Few “instant runoffs” needed in Minneapolis

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  There were no major surprises, and few chances to really see ranked-choice voting come into play in Minneapolis last night. Joe Bodell has the complete results at MN Progressive Project. There were a few races were 2nd-choice votes will be needed to officially put one candidate over 50 [...]

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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 6:22am EST
  by Jeff Rosenberg