Lunchbreak Blogging

Current electoral map got you stressed out? Look at old electoral maps! Observe the silent majority nearly run the table in 1972! Watch Strom Thurmond grab 39 of our worst electoral votes in the "Dewey Defeats Truman" election of 1948! Try and remember who John Bell was and why he took three states in 1860!

Fig. 1. Morning in America

Meanwhile, I'm pretty sure you can guess my general reaction to the VP debate last night even if I don't tell you what it was. I will say this: by calling Dick Cheney the most dangerous Vice President in history, I think Joe Biden is giving some serious short shrift to Aaron Burr.