Election update

It's not that I'm uninterested in the election. I have a love-hate relationship with politics that includes a lifelong fascination with the electoral process -- although I'm convinced "democracy" is this era's version of the "divine right ot kings:" al slogan to dupe the peasants into granting some shred of legitimacy to the brutes who rule over us. I think that perspective gives me a certain detachment when analyzing the machinations of the contending brutes.

Right now the election is in a bit of a doldrum period, but I'm blogging about it pretty steadily at the Register's Horserace'08 election blog, so if you're interested you might want to check into it. At this point it's not part of the Register's coverage plan for me to attend either convention; Steve Greenhut and Mark Landsbaum are slated to divide the two while I stay in the home office. I've always found conventions fascinating, but I'll get along just fine.

Live-blogging at Horserace'08

I'm live-blogging tonight's election results at the Register's Horserace'08 election blog. I suspect my comments on Barack Obama's speech are unlike anything you'll see anywhere else, but I'm also looking at California results -- Prop. 98 (sadly losing so far), the McClintock-Ose race in the 4th CD, Mark Ridley Thomas vs. Bernard Parks, and some Orange County races. Also some posts from Scott Shackford out at the Desert Dispatch, whom I met at this year's Freedom School in San Antonio. A good guy who always has something incisive to say.

Hillary wins, Andrew bitter

Hillary, with a 10-point win, certainly got enough to stay in it. Andrew Sullivan is somewhat bitter, arguing that the Clintons won this one by taking the Rove-Atwater close-to-dirty route. But he's been in the tank for Obama for months. Here's a link to the Register's Horserace'08 election blog, where I live-blogged the results.