I’ve long known that I would not being giving my vote to a Democrat or a Republican. I’m too fed up with the two party system, and the candidates haven’t done or said anything to change my mind. I had planned on voting for Ralph Nader, since he seemed to be the strongest third party candidate. Well, this Electoral Vote Predictor article informed me that Nader failed to get onto the ballot in PA. Bummer. I guess it’ll be Mike Peroutka, then.
"Regardless of the emotion and political activism that led to Bush pushing 'Terri's Law,' there is a system of checks and balances in place to ensure that no one person makes a decision that could be a matter of life and death."
Isn't that the power Michael Schiavo wants? Anybody want to respond to this Pitt News op ed?
I’m inclined to agree, at least superficially, with the New York Times in their desire to scrap the electoral college. Most of the problems I have with it could be fixed without eliminating the system, though.
While we’re talking about fixing systems, I’d like to mention that the current primary/causus system sucks. Federal elections should be handled uniformly. States can run their elections however they please, but federal elections should be within federal pervue. All of the primaries (or caucuses) should be run by the same rules and the elections should be held on the same day. Furthermore, instant runoff voting should be used. The current Frankensteinian system is riduculous. By the time primaries reach PA, for instance, all the good candidates have already dropped out.
Kerry’s campaigners, MTV producers, and most ordinary people thought that the MTV generation would be hard-core supporters of the Democratic party, and thus Kerry. We all received a bit of surprise when Kerry’s daughters were booed while speaking at the MTV Video Music Awards. Either the Generation Y vote isn’t guaranteed or they’re just tired of politics spilling over into pop culture.
The Memory Hole has a
scary example of document
redaction going too far. The blacked-out text in this case was a quote from
a Supreme Court decision which denounced the abuse of “domestic security”
powers.
The Memory Hole is a neat site whose purpose is “to preserve
and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not
widely known”.