Norman MacAfee: Landslide Needed

We do not know. Four weeks from now, we will vote. Young people and African Americans will vote in far greater numbers than ever. Registration is off the charts. A friend says that her African-American election district keeps running out of voter registration forms, and prospective voters are being encouraged to register on line. I would like to predict a landslide. It could happen. But we do not know. But we need a landslide. If 80 percent of the population think the country is on the wrong track, why can't we have an election where 80 percent vote for Barack and 20 for McCain? Well, of course, that never happens. Reagan got 70 percent in 1984, Johnson 63 percent in 1964, Nixon 61 percent in 1972. But if 80 percent vote for Barack, and the right-wing hackers and thugs and Diebold-like pro-GOP corporations that furnish the... [read full story]