The Democrats’ Southern Problem Reaches a New Depth

What a complete waste of ink. Take an interesting issue and then pivot into make-believe land….

“The inability of Southern Democrats to run well ahead of a deeply unpopular Mr. Obama raises questions about how an increasingly urban and culturally liberal national Democratic Party can compete in the staunchly conservative South. It raises serious doubts about whether a future Democratic presidential candidate, like Hillary Clinton, can count on faring better among Southern white voters than President Obama, as many political analysts have assumed she might.”

There are so many things wrong with the author’s premise I hardly know where to start. Oh, here’s one… all Presidents lose seats in the midterms. Every. Single. One.

I find it hard to believe that the author really is this clueless.

NH towns with highest rate of Democrats, Republicans

hmmm

Jeanne Shaheen vanquishes Scott Brown in New Hampshire

yes!

Ballot Measure Results

hmmmm

Shut Up and Eat – A foodie repents.

Maybe these sentiments wouldn’t strike a chord in Ukraine or Liberia or the territories under the control of the Islamic State, but there’s a moving, warming, generous idea here—that by taking loving care when we purchase summer corn, heirloom tomatoes, organically fed and outdoor-reared chicken, we’re doing something that’s charged with political significance. With these choices, the thought is that we’re doing our humble little bit to save the world. We’re doing something that “matters at every level.”

I’m thrilled by this notion, and yet I find that I can’t submit to it. …If these tiny acts of consumer choice are the most meaningful actions in our lives, perhaps we aren’t thinking and acting on a sufficiently big scale. Imagine that you die and go to Heaven and stand in front of a jury made up of Thomas Jefferson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Your task would be to compose yourself, look them in the eye, and say, “I was all about fresh, local, and seasonal.”

….I don’t think my choices are going to change or save the world, but this is how I prefer to cook and eat.

Jon Stewart realized that Koch Industries was running ads during his show. So he trolled them.

heh

Thomas M. Menino, Boston’s longest serving mayor, died today following a battle with cancer. The people he led for 20 years shared their condolences on social media.

This.