hopefully, a leader of the free world that the free world wants to embrace

[rone]

This report yielded an amusing pun:

Brazilian bloggers are now posting a banner with the words “Não vote em branco” — a phrase which carries the double meaning of “don’t cast a blank vote” and “don’t vote for a white person.”

I also like that the Obama logo is painted in Brazil's colors instead of USA's colors.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"DON'T VOTE FOR A WHITE PERSON" == RACISM

Who knew

[notr.livejournal.com]

that this election would lead to my learning through a chain (http://armenianeconomist.blogspot.com/2008/10/us-elections-and-bradley-effect.html) of references (http://books.google.com/books?id=H-gYUJSBO84C&pg=PA173&lpg=PA173&dq=%22free+white+persons%22&source=web&ots=jo2Kaz8AKh&sig=qKrtIRdnNrLtOvg1Gp9vFnco1OE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result) about a case called In re Ah Yup (http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:1H0XvNnvfOwJ:www.asamst.ucsb.edu/courses/readings115/ahyup.doc+%22in+re+ah+yup%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us)?

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

So I went to the polling place to see if there was voter suppression. There was a long line at the polls, and an irate elderly woman at the front of the line, arguing with someone about hyphens and apostrophes. Her name was in the rolls, but she was afraid that her vote wouldn't get counted unless it was spelled right. There was already a news crew there, and my mom got scared, she said "you're moving in with your auntie and uncle in Bel Air." I whistled for a cab, and when it came near, the license plate said "fresh" and it had dice in the mirror, &c.