Samhain Fallowturn Moon
The 538 poll column gives Obama a 91.6% chance of winning the electoral college and 50.6% of the popular vote. As the Wiccans say, “Blessed be.” and “So mote it be.”
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Here’s Walt Whitman. We know he would have voted no on the marriage amendment:
Election Day, November, 1884 by Walt Whitman If I should need to name, O Western World, your powerfulest scene and show, prairies–nor your huge rifts of canyons, Colorado, spasmic geyser-loops ascending to the skies, appearing and disappearing, lakes–nor Mississippi’s stream: I’d name–the still small voice vibrating–America’s choosing day, main, the quadriennial choosing,) and inland–Texas to Maine–the Prairie States– Vermont, Virginia, California, paradox and conflict, conflict, Napoleon’s:) the peaceful choice of all, odds, the dross: purify–while the heart pants, life glows: |