Post-Factual Politics

The Fortnightly Rant for June 17, 2011, from The New Hampshire Gazette, Volume 255, No. 19, posted on Tuesday, August 8, 2011. Sarah Palin and her amazing Technicolor™ dream bus pulled into Portsmouth recently. The maybe/maybe not Presidential candidate and her entourage checked into an enormous new corporate crackerbox on Maplewood Avenue, then whooshed off in a big black SUV to attend a private clambake at a secure, undisclosed location. In a one-in-a-million coincidence, Mitt Romney was just ten miles away in Stratham, also attending a clambake and announcing his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination. Palin, the former half-term Governor of Alaska, had just …

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Big Day Tomorrow

Friday, January 21, 2011 — We just received and approved a Comment in response to this post, which we liked well enough to convert into this post: Meanwhile, check out this Comment is Free article in The Guardian. The title is “New Hampshire’s place in geopolitics.” An excerpt: ‘”All politics is local” is a common phrase in America. It is astonishing just how true that is when surveying the current landscape of the 2012 race for the White House. Forget “blood libels” and healthcare repeal votes and the new head of the RNC. Instead, pay very close attention to an obscure vote taking place in …

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