Dissatisfaction with Slovakia’s current roster of pro-market, cultural liberal parties has produced yet another entrant: Liga-Civic Liberal Party: http://www.liga-ols.sk.  Liga-OLS enters an crowded field, one already occupied by SDKU as well as the smaller, non-parliamentary Alliance of the New Citizen (ANO) and Slobodne Forum (SF).     Liga’s proto-platform places it squarely in the same [...]

but more of a brown-green (color scheme courtesy of old US Government world maps, original map from–and hat-tip to–http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/): McCain majorities by county: Obama majorities by county:

“Count it,” reads the headline of this story about my student Becca Cooper, but I’ll let her expression speak for itself.  And this is before she knew who would win. Source: Detroit Free Press, November 5, 2008

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