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A few years back (we can’t say how many) we took an American Politics 101 class during our freshman year of college and learned all about the American tradition of Gerrymandering. Aside from the tactical partisan redistricting practice’s funny name, we didn’t think a whole lot of it, and the knowledge quickly sank into an [...]

Call it the backlash against the backlash: after heaping wild hopes on president-elect Obama, and then turning around and professing in a disenchanted manner that he’ll invariably disappoint us, we’re now back to piling on the starry-eyed expectations.
That said, here at Listicles we prefer unreasonable expectations to presumed disappointment, in which spirit we pass along [...]