We Scan So You Needn't Skim

The next time you are confronted by someone quoting the "4X% voted for McCain" line, & acting as if elections have no consequences, remind them that

In 2008, Obama crushed McCain outside the South, receiving 56 percent to his rival's 42 percent, Polidata found. That 14-point difference was the third-widest margin of victory for a Democrat over a Republican in the non-Southern states. Only Johnson in 1964 and Roosevelt in 1936 exceeded it.

It doesn't stop there:

What is perhaps even more dramatic is that Republicans in the past five presidential elections have won a smaller share of the Electoral College votes available outside of the South than in any other five-election sequence since the party's formation in 1854. Likewise, since 1992, Republican presidential nominees have won a smaller share of the cumulative popular vote outside of the South than in any other five-election sequence since the party's founding, including the five consecutive elections won by Roosevelt and Harry Truman (1932 to 1948).

Some call it left-leaning liberal media bias. Some are silly enough to think it's just turning a camera on them & letting them go.

[C]able television has made each party's leaders more visible than a generation ago. "It makes them look... extreme and that they are engaged in partisan political fights that are irrelevant to achieving success," [Democratic strategist] Carrick says. "It is definitely a losing spiral that ... is reinforced every day by the 24/7 news cycle."

All well & good, but our schadenfreude receptors are clogged w/ the surfeit of Republican suffering & idiocy. Go ahead & collapse like a two-dollar suitcase already. Our patience wears thin.  And when the hell is the economy going to give a sincere death-rattle? Is the rest of the globe again waiting for California to lead the way? We should be out of money in a couple mos., which should be the coup de grâce to whatever remains of commerce throughout the civilized world.