[geeks] Appropriate Ayn Rand comment for the election...
Phil Stracchino
alaric at metrocast.net
Wed Nov 5 19:53:26 CST 2008
Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> It wasn't a "mandate" by popular vote, IMHO, although he did squeak out
>> a bare majority rather than a plurality. On the other hand, that 52% of
>> the popular vote *did* get him about 70% of the electoral vote.
>>
>
> Notice the lack of calls publicized in the media to "reform" the
> Electoral College? Where is Hillary smugly smiling as she says it
> should be reformed?
>
> Notice the lack of media-publicized "voting problems" that led to the
> poor being disenfrenchfried? Where is Jesse Jackson, talking out about
> the Black Panthers in front of a polling place with nightsticks?
>
> Hmmm...
Some reports have it that ACORN was caught in Minnesota doing
third-party voter registrations for convicted felons in prisons.
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