It is a time of freedom and fear, of Gaia and of borders, of many paths and the widening of
a universal toll road, emptying country and swelling cities, of the public bought into
privacy and the privacy of the public sold into invisible data banks and knowing
algorithms. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the
planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
These are the times when maps fade and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times. The following are results from the February 10-11 nationally representative Washington Post-ABC News poll of 1,003 adults (margin of error +/- 3 points): ![]() I found this pattern to be especially interesting. Support for Bush is lowest in the East, but support for Kerry is tied for lowest in the East and South. Everyone talks about how the South is such an awful prospect for John Kerry, but even there he's leading in the polls, albeit by the smallest margin of all regions. Why in both the East and the South do only 49% support Kerry? In the South, people who don't like Kerry go to Bush. In the East, a large number of them go to "Other" or "Neither." Together, that's six percent. Are these the Nader supporters, or something else? Could that six percent tip some Eastern states over to George W. Bush? What do you think? Lemme know. ![]() ![]() ![]() |