IT IS 8 P.M. Tuesday and illusions of a Republican victory are drawing their last breath in Philadelphia.
In New Jersey and Virginia, the illusion will turn into reality, but not in the Quaker City, perhaps the most "blue" big city in America.
TOMORROW is Election Day. Odds are you know about it, but don't care. And you read a newspaper. Think about the Philadelphians who don't.
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We get too soon old, too late smart. - Pennsylvania Dutch proverb HARRIET NELSON is 32, and she's gotten smart.
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I GREW UP in the Bronx during the era of Yankees supernatural supremacy, so how can I root against them?
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LIKE SOME OF you, I get daily invitations to become someone's "Friend." They come mostly come from desperate people trying to create the illusion they are liked. How many Friends do you have?
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In the ACORN bunker, they are lighting candles for Katherine Conway-Russell, manager of the Broad St. office who largely avoided being punk'd by a conservative filmmaker playing a pimp and by a coed dressed like Lady GaGa.
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HERMANN SCHEIPERS should be dead by now. Not because he's 96, laughing at actuarial tables. Because he sidestepped death once, twice, thrice, after being sent to Dachau, the Nazis' first concentration camp, in 1941.
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Stu Bykofsky: Just like last year, it's Philadelphia vs. Los Angeles, the Phillies fightin' the Dodgers, Red against Blue. To put this in terms Los Angelenos can comprehend, it's Bloods vs. the Crips.
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Stu Bykofsky: What's really behind the Nobel Sur-Prize?
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GLUED to the TV Friday morning, awaiting President Obama's remarks about the Nobel Peace Prize, I fantasized about how he would gracefully decline it.
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EINSTEIN DEFINED insanity as doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Next month, will Philadelphians hoping for an improved city again elect nothing but Democrats and expect a different result?
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THAT A FEW bricks were thrown at me after my suggestion that Italian-Americans pay for the (now canceled) Oct. 11 Columbus Day Parade was not surprising.
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NO COLUMBUS DAY Parade in Philly? How is that possible? The economy? It forced reductions - but not cancellation - of the German-American Steuben Day and the Puerto Rican Day parades.
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