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Hi Folks. Another Tuesday is right around the corner. Join us for another fine evening at the Free State. Ask for us at the front desk. We'll be there from about 8 until 10. We have been enjoying the woop-tee-doo surrounding regime change.

This week's blurb is provided by Bob Gent:

Two days before the election, in Peterborough, New Hampshire, McCain repeated his old line welcoming "Republicans, independents, Democrats, libertarians, and vegetarians" to his cause. Yet most of his old coalition had already deserted him. Even the voters who turned out at his rallies were often not there to see him: they had come for Sarah Palin. During joint events, which drew thousands more people than his solo appearances, she usually received louder cheers than he did. In Hershey, Pennsylvania, a few weeks ago, many in the crowd filed out after Palin introduced McCain, while he was starting his stump speech. On the day before the election, she and McCain campaigned separately: about five hundred people attended McCain's rally in Tampa, Florida; an estimated seventeen thousand came to see Palin in Jefferson City, Missouri. "She's like the plant in 'Little Shop of Horrors,'" McCain's friend Bob Kerrey said. "She's devouring him."
From "The Fall" by David Grann in The New Yorker, November 14th issue