Politics: All Local, All Bullshit, All The Fucking Time

Mother of pearl, it's the end ... the end of everything!!

So the putz from Buffalo who forwards idiotic emails w/in the construction industry has won. And what'd he win? The New York Republican gubernatorial primary. Bookmark it, he will not win the general election, whether against Cuomo, a fictional telebision character (W/ the possible exception of a number of animated favorites that all "Boomers" would vote for in a minute.) or most flora other than crabgrass or really stinging nettles.

So relax. Breathe deeply. Better? OK.

Not that we now (or ever) give a flying fuck at a rolling dough-nut about electoral politics, but just for the hell of it, what does a paper of record have to say?

Very few voters appeared to come out to the polls on Tuesday, and widespread problems were reported with a newly unveiled electronic voting system, prompting outrage from city and state officials.

“A royal screw-up,” said an incensed Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, who described the city’s Elections Board as “a remnant of the days when Tammany Hall ran New York.”

Even with light turnout, Tuesday’s results were likely to be picked apart by analysts eager for any insight into an electorate that has shown signs of revolt against establishment-approved candidates.

Now read this. We got your insight right here.

Just months ago, Mr. Paladino appeared to be out of the race, banished from the Republican ballot by party leaders at their convention. But he began a grass-roots petition drive and started holding whipped-up rallies around the state, where his mixture of white-hot anger and blunt attacks on Albany gained traction. Far-right conservatives, deficit hawks, and New Yorkers who identified with the Tea Party rallied behind him, even as the state’s Republican leadership continued to dismiss his chances.

Even w/ the white-hot anger of the reactionaries voter turnout was light? The tide of rage has at last expressed itself in a trickle of stale energy drinks & greasy diner coffee against a trash-strewn beach? What happened? Where is your righteous indignation, real America?

We won't be arsing ourself w/ numbers (it's all bullshit & we're lazy) but if, w/ every teahadi in NY voting the white-hot anger ticket, turnout remained light, what can we conclude? That the 20-30% (of adults, voters, likely voters, registered voters, blah-fucking-blah) who claim to be 'Baggers or who sympathize w/ general reactionary T.P.ism are the even-nuttier half of the losers who backed McCain & that woman in 2008, as we read somewhere (Who the fuck can remember?) just yesterday. And that they won't be getting "their" (or any) country back w/ turnout this anemic.

One number we would like to know: How many who voted for McCain in 2008 will not be voting in 2012? (There being no absentee ballots in hell.)