While it's hard to argue either Democratic Senator decisively won Super Tuesday, though I'm sure supporters of both will, we know one thing.  With 99% reporting in, we can officially project the losers of Super Tuesday.  The right wing punditry is now dead.  Or at least dying.

I rarely comment and even more rarely write diaries, but as a very recent Virginia Tech alumnus I've of course been affected greatly by yesterday's events.  But even that alone isn't enough to get me to begin writing.  It takes a special kind of disgust and a special kind of fatigue with what I see on TV that get me to write.

After watching and reading, I only have one thing to say.  Leave us alone.  Let us heal as a community.  Don't search for a person to blame.  Don't try to divide us.  The students and the extended Tech community will come out on the other side of this tragedy, if you let us.

Obviously we're only a few months in to this term, but we all know that campaigns get started before the ballot counting machines have cooled down in these days. Given that, it looks like VA's governor Warner is putting his feelers out for an '08 bid.

'Framing', that oh so wonderful Orwellian word the Republicans have created to describe presenting an issue in a light favorable to yourself.  This is where we're getting our asses kicked - this is why we lose elections and debates.  It's not that our ideas are worse than theirs, it's a complete inability to express our positions.  So time to get in the game.

Supreme Court nominations are the issue we have to start thinking about.  We've got months at most till this comes up.  In addition, we cannot botch this one - a wingnut Supreme Court will take decades to undo.  My thoughts on framing the issue below the jump...