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...start with the Electoral College and then get to the Florida mess. Why did the Founders set up this system...
...friends of mine who are classicists recalled this practice, a little wistfully. We agreed America could use a law like that. My friends thought that, for the general good, the eventual loser in this presidential mess ought to be ostracized. I took the idea a step farther. I wondered if it might be possible to send both the loser and the winner on 10-year leaves...
...this year. Heading toward Thanksgiving, the river of presidential politics is still gushing and roiling all over the place - flooding the basement, short-circuiting the media wires, driving the snakes out of their holes. The historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, who is an optimist, thinks the current mess might actually attract fresh, idealistic talents to politics. Perhaps it will happen. But first we must find a way to ostracize the old egos...
...understand the mess in Florida, consider the census...
...want to count everybody for one simple reason: They believe there are more Democratic bodies out there than Republican ones, and those bodies who are disproportionately undercounted are typically Dems. They also know, though they're not going to embarrass their supporters by shouting about it, that Democratic voters mess up more when they get inside the voting booth. That's why in the case of the census the Democrats are in favor of sampling and in the case of Florida they're in favor of counting every last hanging chad. More is better, and whatever methodology gets you more...