Party identification: Republican- 28% (up 2) Democratic- 40% (up 5) Indep.- 27% (down 4)

No group has been at 40% since Democrats in early fall 1996.

Still, no one should take anything for granted, I still beleive this election will be very difficult. It’s not unusual for us to lose 8 or more of our points crossing over to Republicans for presidential elections.

Our two front runners represent potentially controversial candidates and that means assess polls with a grain of salt.

Everyone should support whoever wins the Democratic nomination. I’m afraid, given the emotional involvement in identity and overinvolvement of independents, that universal support for the eventual nominee may not occur.

This is probably going to be a very difficult, very close election.

On the Dem side we have a woman and two men for candidates. Or, put another way we have a black and two whites. Or, put another way we have a southerner and two northerners… Perhaps just as odd is that the white southern man in the race is the most Progressive, rather than being a Conservative.

First of all, it is crucial for all Lefties to realize that all three of these candidates are righ-wing authoritarians. Frankly, there isn’t a dimes worth of difference among them. All will continue the Empire’s bidding and be no impediment to the destruction of the Republican for which we stand.

Don’t be fooled by their rhetoric. They may be the more kindly face of fascism, but that is just a pose. With any of these three you will get Wall Street continuing to dismantle the regulatory regime that was created in the New Deal to tame the excesses of predatory capitalism. With all three you will see continuing capital flight and offshoring of the great fortunes of America. With all three you will see the meddlesome nature of American militarism destroying innocent people across the planet who happen to have the misfortune of living on or near resources the Empire wishes to exploit.

Beware the Corporatist Party, for what you will see in the fall the choice of cloaked evil or a candidate making a blatant appeal to the creation of a proto-fascist dictatorship.

Re: Iskra

I’m about to found a newspaper here in Bend. We’re going to call it “The Spark”, because this town is too rich for a publication called “The Masses”.

The NY Times gave me an idea for the masthead. Their’s reads “All the News that’s fit to print.”

Ours will read: “All the News that gives you fits.”

Time for me to hit the hay.

Since then biological anthropologists have actually focussed a lot more on female roles in Primate groups, as well as in human groups. New comparative methods have been developed which examines the distribution of traits in a group of organisms to determine evolutionary trajectories (cladistics). And our knowledge of human evolution, and the environmental conditions involved, has vastly improved. Today it’s really the fact that the problem is finding what the generally pattern is from a mass of details. We know so much, and the general outline is clear, but there are certain detailed debates (e.g. was there any hybridization at all between Neanderthals and modern H. sapiens; which of the plethora of Early Pleistocene Australopithecus is closest to our own lineages ancestry).

On the Dem side we have a woman and two men for candidates. Or, put another way we have a black and two whites. Or, put another way we have a southerner and two northerners.

The black northern man is from the very highly Democratic state of Illinois. Chances of him having been elected to the senate from any other state are problematic. He smoked marijuana and used cocaine and admits it publicly. After Bill Clinton admitting thinking, merely thinking, about smoking weed and having problems for that, it is truly amazing that Obama is open about his drug use.

The white woman is from a Republican background and was a Goldwater girl! She is also originally from Chicago, but went to school in the East and then lived in Arkansas, but now resides in New York and Washington D.C. Her experience is primarily as a corporate lawyer, board member for WalMart and as a one-term senator, but most of all as First Lady for 8 years.

Is there any other presidential election in the past where candidates such as these would be considered viable?

Perhaps just as odd is that the white southern man in the race is the most Progressive, rather than being a Conservative.

Lord have mercy! Is the sky gonna fall next?