収束ゾーンでのライフ: Life in the Convergence Zone

My impression is that SB is grudgingly in favor of voting for Obama because more SC judges like Scalia would be an utter nightmare, and the chance that Obama will appoint such appears to be smaller than the chance McCain will appoint such. Other than that, she's not much of a fan. She's certainly not "throwing her money and vote" at the Dems in general, and the fact that you've classified her as such based on her statements about a single candidate is why people are mocking you.

Similarly, while the calls to action on FISA of late have been "hey, let your Congresscritter know how you feel," that's largely because at this point (meaning the last couple of weeks) it's progressed far enough that there's not much more individuals *can* do. Over the past several months on this and a host of other topics, SB's main thrust in discussing political things has been to let people know what's ACTUALLY going on (as opposed to what they hear in the mainstream news, this is where the message shaping angle comes in), in the hopes that
1. "they'll tell two friends, who will tell two friends, and so on, and so on, and so on" (just dated myself there)
2. they'll be prompted to try to do something about it in the larger scale, be that through
a. contacting their elected officials at the Federal level
b. starting at the local level and trying to get changes through the system from the bottom up
c. forcing the media to quit being complicit in this shit
d. other things I'm probably forgetting at this point.

And yes, in this post she's realizing that while 1. is possibly happening, most people don't seem the be arsed to follow through with any of 2.