tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post3989427202575052410..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You ShouldJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-78006275073998292432012-09-28T10:30:33.685-05:002012-09-28T10:30:33.685-05:00Jonathan, here's an editorial from the Bangor ...Jonathan, here's an editorial from the Bangor Daily News on <a href="http://bangordailynews.com/2012/09/21/opinion/why-mainers-shouldnt-underestimate-the-absentee-vote/?ref=videos" rel="nofollow">early voting (by absentee ballot) in Maine. </a><br /><br />It brings up the issue of the LePage/Cuttler/Mitchell race. (LePage won by a about 7,000 votes.) There's a lot of folk who feel their early votes for Mitchell gave the election to LePage.zicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-17826438544693360622012-09-28T08:56:18.411-05:002012-09-28T08:56:18.411-05:00That beer graph is useless without PBR. Or maybe i...That beer graph is useless without PBR. Or maybe it was just way, way off to the left. TNnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-46833112613536376902012-09-28T08:42:09.752-05:002012-09-28T08:42:09.752-05:00Speaking of party culture, here's an oddity th...Speaking of party culture, here's an oddity that struck me today, and I'm wondering if anyone else had noticed it:<br /><br />First, whatever its other merits, let's postulate that the CEO of an entity like Bain Capital <i>doesn't actually do much</i>. The myriad of worries facing a "normal" CEO, all of which involve the development of the business, would not be a concern to the Bain Capital CEO, who is mostly interested in destroying the business. On the reasonable assumption that Bain Capital had a pretty robust database identifying lucrative target companies, the CEO of said firm is, in all likelihood, an extremely lucrative sinecure.<br /><br />Beyond that, Romney's resume includes a token period as the governor of a state having a "weak governorship" system, and also prominent involvement with a highly visible entity on the American sports landscape.<br /><br />Wait a second...have we heard <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush" rel="nofollow">this story</a> before?CSHnoreply@blogger.com