In my latest for the Guardian, I salute John McCain for flying one last mission on behalf of his country. The McCain campaign-fueled orgy of anonymous recriminations over Sarah Palin has proved in a way nothing else could that the media had little to do with bringing down the Republican ticket.
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The moderate New England Republican is all but extinct following yesterday’s defeat of New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu and Connecticut Rep. Christopher Shays. In the long run, this won’t be good for the country.
How can you have bipartisanship when the Democratic and Republican parties are hardening into exclusively liberal and conservative camps? Answer: You can’t. Ironically, the conservative Democrat has made something of a comeback in recent years, exemplified by the rise of Virginia Sen. Jim Webb. But they need counterparts on the other side of the aisle.
Which is why I’m glad that Maine Sen. Susan Collins won re-election. Collins and Maine’s other Republican senator, Olympia Snowe, are the last of what was once a pretty common species.
More from my Reinventing the News students:
- Firuzeh Shokooh-Valle: LBJ Apartments, Cambridge
- Michaela Stanelun: Morville House, Boston
- Marc Larocque: Kennedy School, Boston
That will be it for tonight, as I need to file with the Guardian soon. Sooner than I can manage, probably.
My Reinventing the News students are hitting the polls today. Some early returns:
- Chaz Miller checks in at Wentworth Institute, where he finds a multilingual welcome sign.
- Liz Stitt asks New Hampshire residents what they think of negative campaigning.
- Matt Collette interviews two opponents of Question One outside a Boston polling place.
I’ll try to link to more student posts as I find them.
WBUR Radio has a Twitter feed going to which anyone with a Twitter account can contribute. The idea is to tell folks what your voting experience was like today. Just stick a #wburvote into whatever you write.
Mrs. Media Nation and I timed our voting perfectly. I’m working at home today, so we walked to Danvers High School a little after 10 a.m. With the morning rush over and the evening a long way off, we figured we wouldn’t have to wait too long.
Although there were longish lines of cars heading up and down Cabot Road, and though the parking lot was nearly full, we were right — once we were inside the gym, we breezed right through.
A poll worker told me that more than 500 people had voted in our precinct, way more than the typical number. I would imagine the explosion will come after work.
I also posted a few photos to the Polling Place Photo Project. Please have a look.