I live in NYC. I work for Vimeo. I like to cook. My wife likes sprinkles. I have a new(ish) daughter. Her name is Chloe. We don't know if she likes sprinkles yet.
It’s haunting him
Is Stephen Colbert gunning for a South Carolina Senate seat and so can you?
PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE OH PLEASE MAKE THIS SO.
I’ve been watching pundit after pundit talk about how they didn’t see the enthusiasm for Obama that they did in 2008 and were therefore confused by the turnout on election day.
I think they don’t quite understand what Obama did in 2008. He didn’t just give speeches that showed him as a charismatic, intelligent leader, he educated us. And while I was involved with politics before (my father was a politician and I worked on several campaigns, including extensively in 2004), I never saw my peers caring -deeply caring- about the elections before 2008. But after Obama we cared about politics - not politics, actually, issues.
And once you care about issues you don’t go back.
And the issues haven’t changed much since 2008. Gay rights. Middle class. Women’s rights. Those are things that my peers care about.
We weren’t polled because we’re not considered likely voters. Oh, those 18-32 year olds? Especially the childless ones? Who cares what they think. But we do think. And we do vote. And we vote our values - liberal values. Even my husband, one of the least political people I know (weird, right?) was calling people on the eve of the election, reminding them to vote, talking to them about issues, and making an effort.
While I’ll always be an Obama true believer, I love how he awoke a generation to politics, showing them that they can effect change, that yes we can make a difference in our future.
And that’s my favorite thing about Obama.
Very well said.
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Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide is Splitting America
The new political divide is a stark division between cities and what remains of the countryside. Not just some cities and some rural areas, either — virtually every major city (100,000-plus population) in the United States of America has a different outlook from the less populous areas that are closest to it. The difference is no longer aboutwherepeople live, it’s abouthowpeople live: in spread-out, open, low-density privacy — or amid rough-and-tumble, in-your-face population density and diverse communities that enforce a lower-common denominator of tolerance among inhabitants.
The voting data suggest that people don’t make cities liberal — cities make people liberal.
Read more. [Image: Robert Vanderbai]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mebaodN3KP1qcokc4o1_500.jpg)
Red State, Blue City: How the Urban-Rural Divide is Splitting America
The new political divide is a stark division between cities and what remains of the countryside. Not just some cities and some rural areas, either — virtually every major city (100,000-plus population) in the United States of America has a different outlook from the less populous areas that are closest to it. The difference is no longer aboutwherepeople live, it’s abouthowpeople live: in spread-out, open, low-density privacy — or amid rough-and-tumble, in-your-face population density and diverse communities that enforce a lower-common denominator of tolerance among inhabitants.
The voting data suggest that people don’t make cities liberal — cities make people liberal.
Read more. [Image: Robert Vanderbai]
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Anyone chalking up the GOP’s defeat to supposed “gifts” to Latinos, blacks, and young people is “paying too little attention to how weak a candidate Mitt Romney was, and how much that hurt Republican prospects,” says Andrew Kohut at The Wall Street Journal.
Why Mitt Romney will regret blaming his loss on Obama’s ‘gifts’ to minorities
This fucking douche bag and his douchebag party. GO AWAY INTO THE LONG, DARK NIGHT OF HISTORY FUCKERS. YOUR TIME IS OVER. FUCK OFF.
“Journalism is the only profession explicitly protected by the U.S. Constitution, because journalists are supposed to be the check and balance on government. We’re supposed to be holding those in power accountable. We’re not supposed to be their megaphone. That’s what the corporate media have become.” - Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!
IMPORTANT.
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The Empire State Building Calls The Election.
President Bartlett Obama (via apoplecticskeptic)
Golf clap.
I’m voting for Barack Obama because, as this list of Romney endorsers suggests, the candidates for White House performance invites and Kennedy Center honors under a Romney administration would be a national embarrassment from which we’d likely never recover on the international stage of respectability and relevance.
I mean, seriously people… get out and vote. For the sake of art and music and beauty.
