A few weeks ago, several individuals in the office where I work were all over the health care reform initiative as Socialist. They whined and complained ad nauseum about Obama, redistribution of wealth from their pocket to those not fortunate enough to have insurance, and on and on and on.

But then the light went on. And it wasn’t pretty.

My employer distributed the new insurance benefits packages for next year, and you would have thought

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Okay.

There’s been a lot of barking over the past couple of days from the left about the President, and most of it seems to boil down to his not being able to instantaneously convert America from what it has been for the past eight years into what he promised it would be.

He hasn’t reversed Bush’s secrecy policies. The country still isn’t 100% gay friendly. He hasn’t done this. He hasn’t done that. Blah-blah-blah.

Enough.

America is a one-hour society. If something can’t be resolved in an hour, people start tearing their hair out and shrieking that it’s taking too long.

So, here’s the deal:

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…if it ain’t got that swing, as Duke Ellington once put it.

And so it is when it comes to tonight’s gubernatorial elections. As the graph below from Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight shows…

…the Gubernatorial vote is not only a lousy indicator of where the electorate is as related to a future Presidential vote, it is no indicator at all (that’s what the flat red line means).

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Okay. I have to ask:

Why are all those folks who were screaming for the U.S. to get involved in the recent Iranian election aftermath sitting on their hands while Hamid Karzai walks away with an equally corrupt and fraudulent election in Afghanistan? Folks like John McCain and others who were quick out of the box to criticize the President for not doing more in Iran, but who are sitting on their hands while Hamid Karzai steals everything but the kitchen sink.

This is the kind of thing that drives people in the other countries of the world absolutely crazy when the United States starts wrapping itself in the flag and spouting all that talk about freedom and democracy.

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