55 of 57 employees of Slate magazine will vote for Obama:
Today, Slate’s staff and contributors reveal how they’re voting in next week’s presidential election. This continues a tradition we began in 2000 and repeated in 2004. It will come as little surprise to many of our readers—and certainly as no surprise to Sarah “Media Elite” Palin—that Barack Obama won Slate in a landslide. In capturing 55 of our 57 votes, with 1 to McCain and 1 to Libertarian Bob Barr, Obama won an even bigger Slate majority than Al Gore in 2000 (29 of 37 votes) or John Kerry in 2004 (46 of 52 votes). Incidentally, this is a voluntary project: Our staff and contributors can reveal how they voted, but they are not required to.
Obama Carries the Great State of Slate … Why we’re telling you how we’re voting.
Anyone who looks at the American election objectively has to conclude that the Republican party deserves to lose. They’ve done a terrible, terrible job for the past 8yrs.
Bruce Springstein agrees:
Performing solo with an acoustic guitar and harmonica, the rock star led the crowd in singing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”
Afterward, he strummed his guitar as he denounced the “thoughtless, reckless and morally adrift administration” of President Bush, and called America “a repository for people’s hopes” around the world.
“It remains a house of dreams, and a thousand George Bushes and a thousand Dick Cheneys will never be able to tear that house down,” he said, calling the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and the economic crisis their legacy.
“From the beginning, there’s been something in Sen. Obama that’s called upon our better angels,” Springsteen said. “And I suspect it’s because he’s had a life where he’s had to so often call upon his better angels. And we’re going to need all the angels we can get on the hard road ahead. So Sen. Obama, help us rebuild our house.”
Springsteen went on to sing “The Rising,” the song that plays at Obama rallies when the candidate walks onstage. The singer then introduced Obama and his family.
Obama does not necessarily deserve to win.
But John McCain deserves to lose.
Rick McCharles 