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September 26, 2007

Blog Forecast: Light With Occasional Periods of Dread

by AltHippo @ 5:39 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Busy, busy, busy. The people that I work for have taken the notion of salaried employee very seriously, and have made me earn my keep. So unfair! Minimal to meager blogospheric output for the time being.

If I promised you something over the last couple of weeks, I’ve probably failed miserably. Sorry. Very, very sorry. Sometimes, Life comes at you fast. For everything else, there’s Master Card.

Meanwhile, after reading this article, describing how Ohio is being caged for 2008, I thought I’d leave you this for a deep thought. Our founding fathers designed a society where the vote of people who live in rural areas are weighted more than those that live in urban areas. Furthermore, they designed a society where voting for president is not a right. Not even if you’re an upstanding citizen and a pillar of the community. You’re not guaranteed a right to vote for US President.

You may recall for instance, that if Supreme Court decided for Gore in Bush v. Gore, the Florida Republican Party threatened to send in their own slate of electors picked by Jeb to vote for his brother, Bushie.

Just another reason why the Electoral College has so impressed new democracies that they don’t want anything to do with it.

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3 Responses to “Blog Forecast: Light With Occasional Periods of Dread”

  1. KCinDC Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 6:07 pm

    Our friend Hans Von Spakovsky is back.

  2. AltHippo Says:
    September 26th, 2007 at 11:24 pm

    Mr. Bill, it’s your old friend Von Spakovsky.

    Oh, no!

  3. Jamelle Says:
    September 30th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    Even though I’m a little bit of a sucker for tradition, I do think that there either needs to be some serious reform of the electoral college, or it simply needs to be abolished.

    It’s an anti-democratic relic that really doesn’t have a place in the 21st century.

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