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Actually, a juicy head cold and bleary eyes make the screen almost impossible to work with today. Maybe later.

Meanwhile, Mark Ambinder, quoted at Political Wire, has this interesting thought:

Democrats know that President Obama remains in charge. They know that the GOP can’t do anything awful for the next two years. Democrats tend not be motivated by judges and cultural issues; their base was not set up that way, the Republicans were. Democrats are also confident that they’ll keep the presidency in 2016, and if they pay attention to politics, they know that 2016 is cyclically shaping up to be a better year for them. So — really — why vote? Or, put another way, why go out of your way to vote? …PoliticalWire

Why? Because voting isn’t about how you feel, or who you’re mad at. The stories have been coming in about the numbers of people who were refused an opportunity to vote. That’s bad enough. But what about people who just didn’t bother?

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…Molly Ball, of The Atlantic, snapped a picture of a McConnell bumper sticker of elegant brevity: “COAL. GUNS. FREEDOM.” (It’s hard to think of a counter-sticker with the same zing: “WIND. KALE. GOVERNANCE.”) …EvanOsnos,NewYorker

Cross-posted from Prairie Weather

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