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    Fantasy Football Guru Guru of Nothing's Avatar
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    Dan Probably Missed This Post in the Spurs Forum

    Blue Ball

    Marc Abrams

    No, I’m not talking about the small town in Pennsylvania Dutch county. I’m talking NBA basketball, baby! (as Vitale would say.)

    For the next two weeks, I’ll be a rabid Detroit Pistons fan, and so, too, should you.

    It’s simple: Michigan is Blue; Texas is red. Really, really red. Detroit votes Democratic, San Antonio is a Republican town. The teams are even emblematic of party affiliation. Detroit’s team is the Pistons: an industrial product made in union shops by UAW members. Spurs are worn by folks who let overfed livestock graze on federally subsidized grasslands while pretending they are self-reliant and never took a handout. The Pistons are hustling, sweating, hard working, blue collar basketball players. The Spurs are tails after the sales meeting, all smooth, corporate and sanded edges.

    Okay, so the Pistons have Rasheed Wallace, Portland’s favorite whipping post. Get past it. Look at what Michigan and Texas have given the world.

    Must I remind you of not one, but two Bushes? By contrast, even when Michigan produces a Republican, it’s the amiable and bumbling Gerald Ford. Governors: Jennifer Granholm, the Democrats’ reason for repealing the ban on foreign-born candidates for President vs. Rick Perry, the Democrats’ reason for repealing Texas’ statehood. Senators: Debbie Stabenow and that magnificent legislator Carl Levin vs. Kay Bailey Hutchison, the Martha Stewart of the Senate and John Cornyn, who apparently learned so little from his time on the Texas Supreme Court that he leads the charge for muzzling judges. The same Texas Supreme Court that, by the way, that gave us Alberto Gonzales and Priscilla Owens. The Texas Supreme Court is a spawning ground for reactionary higher appointments. What has the Michigan Supreme Court done to you lately? Congress: John Dingell vs. Tom DeLay. Case closed.

    So unless you’re a redneck with a longneck whose hands involuntarily clench into a "hook ‘em horns" sign at the beginning of every college football season, this should be an easy call for you.

    Vote Detroit. Go Pistons!

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    e^(i*pi) + 1 = 0 MannyIsGod's Avatar
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    @ San Antonio as a republican town. Right.

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    @ San Antonio as a republican town. Right.
    the good parts are.

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    the good parts are
    Ouch! I would say SA city proper is mostly Democrat, at least that's the way its gone in most recent local, state and Federal elections, but like any town USA, people vote where they live, not where they work, and suburbia is Republican-ville.

    Maybe because they have more to lose or because they have time to care about such things, the affluent take time to vote, and that, not a head count of political affiliation of the city of SA, is important when considering whether SA and Bexar County is primarily liberal or Conservative.

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    - by the way, Spurs in 5.

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