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Sarah Huckleberry tweets and deletes an awful “joke” about people with speech impediments. She continues to be an asshole.

 

The Huckstress must be a Who fan.

 

Pete's out ahead in Iowa - If anything, I'm surprised Biden didn't join in the fray. If he finishes third in Iowa, where he is now, he may be done. Any lower - I think he is toast. SC or no SC,

 

The acorns do not fall far from the tree, do they?


EDIT: Props to Deskgrunt ...

 

J-j-j-jsss because she g-g-gets around

 

I hope I die before I get old

 

I was going to post something that the man with the hat said, but Scott Adams (Dilbert) said the same thing and I guess he meets some threshold of significance.

Episode 761 Scott Adams: Shampeachment and Coffee. Mmmmm-Good. - Scott Adam's Blog

 

It's not as stupid if you think of the US as a union of states, which was how the Founders saw it. Ignoring the various distortions, if you have three states with equal numbers of voters and one candidate wins one state 75-25 and loses the other two 60-40, I think most of us would say the first candidate, who received more total votes, should be elected. I think the Founders would've preferred the other candidate, who won the majority of the states.

Separately, there are lots of distortions caused by the Electoral College other than the winner-take-all system and the disproportionate weighting from adding two electors for each state's senators. Almost everyone who lives in a state but can't vote (children under 18, noncitizens, prisoners, felons in some states) or doesn't vote is counted in determining a state's representation in the House, and thus its number of electors. To the extent that these groups aren't distributed among states in the same proportions as voting citizens, the voters in states with relatively more nonvoting residents have their votes count for more. I assume the states with relatively high proportions of children, noncitizens, and nonvoters tend to be blue, which would make the distortion offset part of the (larger) distortions that favor Republicans now. It'd be tough to figure out how much of a difference this makes, though.

 

Presidential elections should be a national holiday. Hell, every Congressional election that meets a certain threshold — not sure what that would be; it’s up for discussion — also should be a national holiday. A paid day off for everyone. Swap it out for Presidents’ Day if you don’t want to add to the holiday total. Whatever. Make voting easier, which should increase turnout.

A guy can dream.

 

Maybe. But he can pick up a lot of steam if he treads water till SC.

I’m iffy on Biden. He’d be fine and probably still has the best chance to win.

Regardless, I’m fucking sick and tired of Iowa and New Hampshire having this much influence. Not representative of the country we live in.

 

Republicans want to make voting more difficult.

 

The Electoral College makes a conservative's vote in NYC and a liberal's vote in Biloxi equally meaningless. That is a notion that spits in the face of democracy. The Electoral College should have been abolished long ago.