ABOUT THIS ELECTION GUIDE 2008

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About Downtown Magazine's 2008 Election Guide
by Fearless Rick, 11/3/08
Some time on Sunday, November 2, I realized that I had nothing much to do on Monday and Tuesday this week (except vote, and I promise only to do that once), and since I have been told repeatedly by the media moguls at ABCBSNBCNN that Tuesday will be the most important election of my life (just like 2000 and 2004) that I might want to write something about it.
Being a publisher of newspapers in the 80s and early 90s, a one-day lead time probably would have been impossible, but, in today's web publishing environment, the differences are large and amenable to working on tight deadlines. What's different between newspaper publishing and web page publishing is that there is no need for ink, paper, presses or trucks to deliver the final product.
Pants are also optional today, as is shaving, showering, or having employees.
So, being a self-publishing demon of the highest caliber and the lowest sense of fairness and equanimity, I decided that, in an effort to counter much of the nonsense and drivel that spews forth from the mainstream media and the right-wing slanderers on the radio and FOCKS news, and since I own the web site then I could put together a guide to the election lickety-split (a term I lifted from the ancient warrior, John McCain, don't cha know) and maybe get some of those last minute undecided and swing voters to swing their votes in a liberal or other direction.
(Are swing voters "swingers" as in, they swap wives and such? Or are they people who spend a lot of time at playgrounds?)

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Despite the media constantly reminding me that America is a fundamentally right-center nation, meaning, I suppose, we support things like wiretapping without warrants, high security at airports, baseball games and subway stations, surveillance cameras, war and enormous federal budget deficits (hey, Democrats were always called "tax-and-spenders", but in the era of George W. Bush, I guess we can call Republicans "borrow-and-spenders."), I really think liberalism has gotten a bad rap lately, as in, the last 25 years. Maybe I can put a little dent into some people's thinking. Maybe not.
Being somewhat confused as to what my actual political leaning are, as, in my adult years I have registered alternately as a Republican (1971-1983), an independent (1983-2001), and now a Democrat (2001-present), I am particularly well-suited to present an overview of the elections that is unabashedly biased, literally unobjective and grossly incomplete.
I figure that between bong hits and boilermakers over the next 2 1/2 days I can bang out six to eight barely-readable articles, a boatload of blog posts, a slick FAQ on electioneering and a really nice post mortem for the failed policies of twenty-five years of Reagan Republicanism (that is, if I'm still coherent and/or lucid after the expected wild celebrating Tuesday night into Wednesday morning).
So, off I go. Follow me.

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