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...Constitutionally, elections really are a state affair. Do we really want to mess with that? Leave the Electoral College in place, as a mild equalizer and a needed firewall, and let the system renew itself the way it always has: out of naked political fear...
...doing this as something of a distraction for his supporters, trying to create political space for himself to push through tough economic measures, which he desperately needs to do. The government is basically bankrupt, and India is facing an economic slowdown. We're heading back into a terrible mess, but in a democracy as politically fractured as India's, it's hard to cut government spending. The alternative is privatization - the government owns everything from hotels to car factories, and all they've managed to privatize in recent years was a bakery - but there's strong ideological resistance. That...
...reception, "the kind of applause you give for people you don't care about," as a Senator described it. Lawmakers joked among themselves that Lieberman was trying to prevent someone from "pulling a Lieberman"--speaking out against Gore the way Lieberman spoke out against Bill Clinton during the impeachment mess...
...they had put in place a number of laws to regulate the messiness that invariably results when 6 million people go to thousands of polling places to cast ballots that are then counted in a variety of ways by hundreds of different officials. And a whopping messiness--a mess of unprecedented proportions--did indeed result. But the laws were there to regulate it. And under the law, George Bush won Florida. This is not to say that he won in the sense of cosmic certainty, under the aspect of eternity, in the sight of an all-knowing being. Cosmic certainty...
...more, good sense says the driver has to be worth at least half that much. But Enos, 38, is still putting in days as the voting-system manager in West Palm Beach. I don't really understand what he has to do with the voting-system mess down there, but it does seem like a good idea for Spillane to be scouting out other work...