Now we need a thread to suggest appropriate foodstuffs and one for cocktails.

I was walking in the downtown of the small college town I'm in right now, and some is clearly a genius.

Because the local bar had drink specials.  Election day has never been a big drinking holiday here in the Midwestern US, but I'm imagining however it ends up someone's supporters are going to be making friends with Jack Daniels and Jim Bean before the end of the night.

As for moving to the left, I couldn't agree more.

Assuming Obama wins, which is still an assumption, the first big test is going to be whether Obama follows through with the Employee Free Choice Act, (EFCA) which would substantially reduce the barriers to unionization in American workplaces.  

Opinion polling suggests that over half of American workers would like to belong to a labor union. It's been estimated that the passage of the EFCA would double the number of successful unionization campaigns.

As of 2007 about 12.1% of American workers are members of a labor union. As recently as the late 1970s it was double that.

A resurgence of American labor would change the political scene.  I can only hope that Obama doesn't back away from passing the EFCA once he's in office.


And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg