David McCullough on what a “punk performance” the 2012 campaign has been.- The Washington Redskins have made their prediction.
- A slew of Electoral College predictions: many sensible; others less so.
- “Take a step back, and this small-minded, mean election points to a big, reassuring constant of American politics” — The Economist
- So, when do the polls close, after all?
- Ciroc for Barry, Jim Beam for Mittens — what your booze says about your voting choices; also, what it means when you love Rent or Atlas Shrugged (not so hard to guess).
- An Ohio says, Please don’t pay so much attention to us. Please.
- The Onion issue guide; don’t go to the poll without it.
- Either way, it’s civil war in the GOP.
- Print and read: “How to Rig an Election.”
Tag: politics
New in Theaters: ‘Split’
Just in time for the election comes Split: A Deeper Divide, a documentary about the nation’s partisan divide. My review is running now at Film Journal International:
The nation is hopelessly divided; Washington is broken; people only listen to news pre-slanted to their ideology; there is no room left for even-tempered discourse. We have heard all this before, which doesn’t mean that Split: A Deeper Divide, a film about the state of American political partisanship, doesn’t tackle a worthy subject. (That would be like saying that since we have already been told war is hell, every war film after All Quiet on the Western Front has been a waste of time.) But it also doesn’t mean that this film brings anything new to the topic.
Split: A Deeper Divide is playing now in limited release and will be expanded to other markets later in the month.
You can watch the trailer here:
Chris Barsanti 
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