On my commute to work this morning (along Pacific Coast Highway and its avatars south of L.A.), I saw an extremely long line of people waiting to vote (in El Segundo, I believe). Luckily it wasn't raining. (Luckily, it has been raining of late. This drought is a pain.)
I also realized that there was something I wasn't seeing. Back in '04, it seemed that half the cars had stickers endorsing Bush's re-election. Now, there are a very small number of McCain/Palin stickers (and they're smaller). Unlike in '04, the DP stickers (usually scotch-taped inside car windows) outnumber the GOP ones. But mostly, there are fewer stickers. Last week, again in El Segundo, there was a big rally in favor of Prop. 8, which would change CA's constitution to ban same-sex marriages. The people involved were mostly working-class minority members, unlike the population of El Segundo, which is more middle class and more white. (El Segundo is named after the second Chevron oil refinery. It's traditionally been a company town, though hardly as dependent on the corporation as Pullman, IL, once was.) -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
