Voter Turnout The SAME as 2004?

CNN Political Ticker:

A new report from American University’s Center for the Study of the American Electorate concludes that voter turnout in Tuesday’s election was the same in percentage terms as it was four years ago — or at most has risen by less than 1 percent.

Am I the only person who finds that slightly suspect?

I waited a solid hour and a half longer to vote this year, compared to 2004. Everywhere you turned, you heard of long lines for absentee ballots and early voting.

Where did the votes go?

My take, as though I think you care...

Given a choice between liberalism and quasi-liberalism, most Americans chose liberalism full-bore. I hope they learn a lesson, and the rest of us will suffer as they learn it.

There will be good to come of this. This too, shall pass.

Even more LOLZ

Disclosure About Obama's Aunt May Have Broken Federal Law

As though the biggest offense here isn't that the woman defied a court order to leave the country, and essentially stole from the government by receiving government benefits as an illegal alien.

Nope, nothing to see there. It's the leak, and the timing.

Nuance.

I LOL'd

Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.

October surprise! Hijinks! We're being Bamboozled!

I guess it's probably relevant to ask how long the AP sat on this story.

Now it's in the news...

Politico:

Time’s John Cloud writes on THE CABINET — “a clandestine group of [seven] wealthy gay political donors.” The magazine calls $27 million a “[c]onservative estimate of the amount that Cabinet members spend each year on gay causes.” They are: David Bohnett, co-founder of GeoCities; Timothy Gill, another tech multimillionaire; James Hormel, the meat heir; Jon Stryker, billionaire grandson of the founder of medical-technology giant Stryker Corp.; Henry van Ameringen, son of a flavor-and-fragrance import magnate; Jonathan Lewis, grandson of the co-founder of Progressive Insurance; and Linda Ketner, heiress to the Food Lion fortune.

Not OUR news, of course. That'd be inflammatory, or something. Of course, this is too. But to Lowcountry voters, this is still just a rumor on a blog. Hate speech?

They Don't Even Care That We Know Anymore

On Saturday Night Live this past weekend, there was a skit about the bailout. It was funny, and it pointed the finger of blame at Democrats for the policies that got us into this mess.

I was shocked to see it.

Funny thing, though. Earlier it was on the net, at Hulu.com and NBC.com.

Was. It's not there anymore.

You stay classy, Democrats. You stay classy...

UPDATE: You can see it here, now...