Alternet on the danger of complacency:
…The truth is, national polls don’t amount to a hill of beans in this election. What counts is turnout and, as AlterNet reported in July, political operative and former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed is putting together an impressive get-out-the-vote operation, via his organization, Faith and Freedom Coalition, which funded by right-wing billionaires. Now that the New York Times weighed in with a front-page Sunday piece by Jo Becker about Reed’s organizing, perhaps the liberal establishment will take a deep breath and reassess whether its triumphalism is warranted — or even helpful to the liberal cause…
If you go to the polls, and everyone should, voting a straight Democratic ticket is the way to screw with the 1%. As bad as the Democratic Party might be, it isn’t the Republican Party. At least not yet.