True, but I feel like I've read that the level of hatred for and the number of threats against the Obamas massively exceeds anything for any first family before them. Maybe I'm wrong. I sincerely hope I am. I hope they all live long and happy lives. I can't imagine how stressful it must be to know how many right-wing…

I live upstate, I've seen the racist redneck Confederate-flag-waving motherfuckers and the Jesus billboard trucks.

Liberals need to colonize rural areas and appropriate their disctricts. A latte liberal pioneer movement! I'm imagining little caravans of bearded, flanneled young artists trekking into Nebraska pulling tiny covered wagons behind their fixie bikes.

At the federal level, the state is dominated by the population of NYC, which is, of course, blue. However, the rest of the state is surprisingly conservative. Without NYC holding it down, New York would be red.

Upstate NY. I live in Dutchess County (an hour-ish north of the city) and it's far more conservative than one might think. My landlord is a vocal NRA member and a lot of the people are very anti-choice, anti-marriage equality, anti-Common Core types. Even the Top-40 radio station I listen to (usually seems like it…

take your bipartisan rhetoric somewhere else

Men who have any regard whatsoever for the women in their lives: the same.

It's about believing that YOUR religious beliefs are so much better than everyone else's, that everyone else must live by them.

please explain how a state "dominated by democrats" has had a Republican-controlled state senate for all but two years of the past few decades

It's a shame "socialist" is an ugly word in American politics. I'm probably more center left, but I think we need some voices further to the left than that to balance out some of the more extreme conservative messages.

Sadly accurate.

Although Democrats have a numerical majority, a coalition gives Republicans control of the chamber.

Women: Never ever vote for a Republican.

That makes me sadly nervous. The lunatics aren't going to stop their seething hatred just because he's out of office.

When you want something you gotta go for it man!!!!

I remember writing in the maybe box on a girl's "boyfriend?" letter in the 2nd grade. One of the most excruciating things I've ever done...

i didn't want to seem too agressive

I had a 19 year old mother who had a lot of free time when I was small and so I learned to read before kindergarten. Once, at the doctor with my mum, I read a poster on the wall of the examining room. It was a cartoon image with the text, "Has your mother told you about VD?" It may have actually been like a free…

VD is for everybody.