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MY PART

Obama Ahead of Romney Among Early Voters

That would be me. I put my ballot in the mail this morning.

I also voted for Feinstein although I am not personally fond of her. She has gone very establishment. Straight. Also Paul Ruiz who is running against our half a Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack. I say half because Bono is married to Connie Mack the Floridian who is running for the Senate (and not doing so well).

I voted for a couple of school board members and two members of the Medical Board. One of the guys I know pretty well.

I voted for the Governors tax proposal, for the end of the death penalty and for the softening of the "three strikes" law so that the third crime has to be a bad one for it to go into effect.

I feel good. Unburdened.

Obama is still holding Ohio in the polls. Five percent. They are not going to give the details of their tax plan until they are elected. Bad move. A quiet but interesting day.

OL' ARLEN

Passing note of Arlen Specter's death. He was a Senator and politician so long that I remember him from being elected in Philadelphia for District Attorney.

I called him 'Ol Arlen, as many did. I don't know why. I think it was because he was so oily.

His heart was in the right place but he could be a real bastard.

I loved to hear him talk almost as much as he did. A great gravelly voice with an accent that made him sound like a western actor. A drawl. An affectation that became permanent.

He was 82. Hard to say he was a hero to me at all but a character in the background of my life or lives as I lived from place to place and time to time.

So long Ol' Arlen.

In this tape he says that Romney changes position more than a porn star (4:48) and wonders which Mitt Romney will show up for the general election. Prophetic. He wrote a book that said the Tea Party was eating its own. Cannibals.

They ate him up. He was an old style Republican moderate.

Listen to him. A last hurrah.

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