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Dreamed that the election was over, and it was looking like a landslide for my man. A moment of horror, looking at the map of New England on the screen and seeing solid red. What happened?! Oh, I see; the entity running the map decided to be literalist, and kept the 2000-and-before tradition of coloring incumbent-party wins blue and challenger-party wins red, despite the strength of the "blue-state/red-state" meme that based its colors on how they happened to be defined during the 2000 race.

In reality, a few days ago, a friend and I were wondering what color scheme the networks would use; would they stick with tradition (and risk confusing everyone) or bow to the meme (and risk confusing everyone)?

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I started watching that new South Park episode that has been getting lots of props across my friends page (thank you, BitTorrent), and had to stop five minutes in, because it was clearly ramping into a "both the candidates suck, so why bother" argument. And I have no patience at all for that, and only angry frustration with Parker and Stone.

It reminded me of Ebert's recent razzing of "Team America" for falling beneath his contempt, being in his eyes a screedful promotion of apolitical nihilism. I haven't seen the movie myself, but I knew just what he meant, and tend to find this attitude... unfortunate, especially today. Especially today.

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Also, the Chinese don't like Nader much either. (Well, that's what the picture looks like, context-free, anyway.)

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So now what?