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...listened to radio: NPR for the news, WOR and WABC for the commentary. In a spirit both journalistic and masochistic, I listened as the radio savants tried to make sense of the Floridation of presidential politics. I share the general puzzlement about the electoral college and the origami ballot in Palm Beach County. But I have two other questions. Will someone please explain how the members of the Radio Right can be so sure that they really are right? And why is political talk radio - in a country that has just voted for two middle-of-the-road presidential candidates...
...Constitution has remedies for fraud and injustice, but not for incompetence and sloppiness. I'm afraid that stupidity is allowed under our democratic constitution. Yes, that butterfly ballot is awfully confusing - and I'll tell you why: It was created by a human being. But the Constitution does not protect us against our own folly and our own mistakes; no one and nothing can do that. Sorry, there are no "do-overs" in a democracy...
...eight ballot initiatives, Cambridge voters bucked the state trend by voting against Question 4, which will cut state income taxes by .95 percent. While he initiative was approved state-wide, 62.46 percent of Cambridge voters opposed...
...hint? The ballot-crunchers, seeming somehow closer in time to 1786 than 2000, are going to be quite a while. And that excruciating variety of potential delays, ready to be goosed into being by the two sides, will afford those reborn campaigns plenty of time to work the media hordes and talk to their lawyers about Palm Beach (which will undergo its own partial recounts over the weekend; check in Monday...
...State were disgusted by the president's affair with Monica Lewinsky, at least as many had come away from the last six years equating Lazio's former boss (Newt Gingrich) with Satan incarnate. For pretty much every Clinton-fatigue vote that went to Lazio, at least one GOP-fatigue ballot went to Clinton. And Bill Clinton's wife picked up quite a few sympathy votes, as well - because while Hillary never showed a weepy face to the public, her anguish was made so evident by her iciness, and that cold control may have won more hearts than any great display...