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OBAMEDIA ALERT: Minnesota “Significantly Closer” than Polls Predicted
…Update: Iowa Miracle?
…Update: PUMA’s May Flip Ohio!!
Ruh-Roh!… There’s an Obamedia alert in Minnesota.
Marc Ambinder at The Atlantic reported:

Organization is important but it is overrated. What’s more important is mobilization. Those who are mobilized against bullies can react whenever an abuse occurs. Where there are bullies, abuses will occur.

I caution against political violence because (1) public sympathy generally goes to the victim of political violence and not its perpetrator, (2) a would-be dictator will look for pretexts to expand his power, and (3) resistance is most effective when it exists under the threshold of where government reaction gains social legitimacy.

Nonviolence works principally by showing just how abusive one’s opposition really is. Martin Luther King Jr. courted police brutality. Few events depressed him more than friendly segregationist sheriffs who refrained from brutality.

I think Senator Obama is a bully. I think the burden is on him to explain how his “civilian security force” wouldn’t be some twenty-first century version of the Tonton Macoutes. In any case, a key to effective resistance in a constitutional republic is to scrupulously obey every law in order to deprive police agencies of any valid pretext for investigation or repression. It is very important to regard existing laws not merely as cover but also as means to expose any illegality within the government.

No matter which way this election turns out, Americans will not come together to embrace the winner. Any notion of “healing” in a political context is utter nonsense considering what has happened during this election campaign. The best that can be expected from the losing side (no matter which one it turns out to be) is a cold acceptance that the majority of American voters made the wrong decision.

Interesting 23 minute video. Millions of tech-savvy guys over there.

I voted this afternoon. I didn’t have to wait. There was no line. I was told the place was packed before 7 and half the roll had voted.

I don’t know. Gore and Kerry had the place full at all times of the day.