Two thoughts

Hey, was invited to talk here by Evan... not sure how this 'sharing of ideas' is going to work. As while I often trade ideas on mine and evan's blogs... well most of what I blog about is already political- being as I'm an unemployed person in a BLUE state.

That said two things occurred to me today. I've tried hard NOT to think the past couple of days... but that hasn't been going well. The first one has to do with the 'nice' red and blue map you've seen recently. This election( and sort of 2000) proves that you NEED the south and Midwest to win and to heck with the coasts. This is sad on MANY levels( such as the 11 gay amendments evan has mentioned) but what struck me this morning as I was shaving( more on that on my blog tonight/tomorrow) was that we, as a country, are not going to have a minority in the white house for at least 20 years- doubtful in my life time.
You see W. properly predicted in this campain that these NASCAR dads, while they might not have a job of their own, they'll be good and god damned if they're gonna allow any gays to get married or any black in the white house.
Which is a shame. I remember in '92- hoping that the Republicans would run Powell instead of Bush Sr. Though not a republican myself, Powell SEEMED to be a honest good man. The type of man, that even if you didn't agree with him, you respected him. He's been used and abused by Jr. and wouldn't be able to carry the south EVER.
So no uncloseted gay, black, Jew, Asian, Latino or Latina in the Oval Office in *MY* life time. Which is a damn shame.

The other thing was HOW MANY votes Alan Keyes got. This is an African American who said that gay marriages would lead to incest. This Man, Alan Keyes, who also said Jesus would NOT vote for his opponent, got 16% of the vote. Yes, more people voted for him then Him and Jesus for him to get a 16%. Also it should be noted... he was a carpet bagger so he didn't LIVE in IL. til AFTER he annouced he was running. But still 16% of the state voted for him. Heck I found a couple of republican blogs, where they CLEARLY point out that Keyes is different then Hillary, because Hillary is an EVIL SATANIC WOMAN ONLY INTERESTED IN POWER, while poor Alan Keyes was DRAFTED by the Republican Party TO HELP THE GOOD CHRISTIAN PEOPLE OF IL.
How could 178,393 people be dumb enough to vote for this guy?