Is 2011 the Mirror of 2003?

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Doing a bit of website tidying last night, I came upon these charts from 2003-2004 showing the share of all bumper stickers we’d sold that were promoting particular candidates: Throughout the summer and fall of 2003, newspapers and magazines focused …

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Falling Down on the PCLOB: Barack Obama in Violation of Federal Law 597 Days and Counting

What’s the PCLOB and why should you care? In the election year of 2004, President George W. Bush quieted down anger at his constitutional record by signing a law creating a Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board to protect Americans’ …

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Right Wing Bumper Stickers A History Of Dumb Ideas

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What would right wing bumper sticker merchants do? They’d create such shining idols of their ideological past that they’d be unable to see how profoundly messed up their crusades have been.

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Pitts: The Dastardly Opposition, Now that It Is Not Us

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Leonard Pitts’ latest column: Last year, Barack Obama was elected president, the first American of African heritage ever to reach that office. If this was regarded as a new beginning by most Americans, it was regarded apocalyptically by others who …

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Kuciniching Health Care

Every now and then, I’m looking through some of the policies that Congressman Dennis Kucinich supports, and wondering why he didn’t get more support as a presidential candidate in 2004 and 2008. Then Kucinich reminds me, with comments like this …

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An Election Procrastination Bumper Sticker

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OK, really now, it’s time for the bumper sticker to come off. To put things in gentle perspective, I saw a Mondale-Ferraro bumper sticker on the back of a beat-up Chevy a few months ago.

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No More Hawaii for Democracy

The web site for Hawai’i for Democracy isn’t there any more. It’s been replaced by one of those generic placeholders that sells credit cards and insurance.

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Prepare for Fundamentalist Christian Upset at Secret Service Inauguration Cross Prohibition (Where Else Do We Look?)

In 2005, fundamentalist Christians were outgraged at the inauguration of George W. Bush as President. No, they weren’t upset at George W. Bush himself, who was the president most friendly to religious fundamentalism (as long as it was Christian) in …

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2008 Secessionist Fantasy

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With the new red nations of Chesapeake and Mackinac, a shared waterway is what defines the small national identity. The blue nation of Montana is landlocked, but it has a border with Canada.

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Obama Pressman Attacked Dean In 2004 On Military Service

Barack Obama doesn’t have military experience, but conveniently, Robert Gibbs has not seen fit to criticize that.

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Election 2008 Continues to be Positively Motivated, Sales Stats Show

Earlier this year I looked at statistics of bumper sticker, button and t-shirt sales from the 4th week of May 2008 and compared them to our sales statistics from the 4th week of May in 2004. What I found indicated …

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How Can I Steal Back My Vote If I Haven’t Voted Yet?

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Even with Barack Obama pulling ahead a few points in national and swing state polls, there’s a lot of concern among Democrats that the presidential election may be too close to call in the end. That’s why you have political operatives like Kennedy and Palast hyperventilating about stolen votes once again.

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You Bet I’m A Pacifist

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A pacifist is someone with the kooky idea that hurting and killing people is a bad thing. With that idea, one of the bumper stickers I’ve added to my updated 2008 collection of favorite bumper stickers is the one you see below: An
oval bumper sticker declaring oneself to be a pacifist
– simply but colorfully. Pacifism is not a popular idea these days, but popularity has been a poor indicator of what makes an idea worth considering.

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Asked about FISA at Netroots Nation, Nancy Pelosi Beats About the Bush

When Nancy Pelosi appeared at the Netroots Nation conference today, people questioned her decision as Speaker of the House to let the H.R. 6304, the FISA Amendments Act, come to the floor. Speaker Pelosi’s answers were anything but respectful to …

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Our Sales Stats Show It: 2004 Was Negatively Motivated. 2008 is Positively Motivated.

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We’ve been selling progressive bumper stickers, buttons, and such for some time now — well through the last presidential election cycle. As a lark, I decided to take a look at sales statistics reaching back to the 2004 presidential election, …

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Buffenbarger This!

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eah, we may drink latte every now and then. Yeah, we may drive hybrid cars. So what? What the heck is wrong with drinking coffee and caring about the environment? We’re Democrats – latte-drinking, Prius-driving Democrats for Obama, and Thomas Buffenbarger just lost Hillary Clinton our support.

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Blue States Outperform Red States on Green Energy Readiness

No states got a grade of A on interconnection policies, but six states were given failing grades for their policies. Four of these failing states were red states. Only two blue states were placed in this failing category. Of the five states that got a grade of A on net metering policies, four were blue states that voted for John Kerry in 2004. Only one of these high-achieving states, Colorado, was a 2004 red state.

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The Riddle Of the Missing Bumper Sticker

Four years ago, by this point in the presidential election season, cars were thick with bumper stickers promoting different presidential candidates. Why not now?

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