Nobody sells "fear" like Republicans
and that's all they've had to run on in the past 2 years. "Be very afraid of that scary black man in the White House: He's a Muslim, he was born in Kenya, he's a socialist, he'll take away all your guns, he wants the government to take over all of the health care in the country, etc."
"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."
-- E.L. Doctorow
