Logic Times
Blue State Ohio
Posted by Aslan, 11/03/05, 11:46pm. Comments (1)
"You know they haven't finished counting the votes in Ohio yet, and so it is way to early to start talking about another race. But I will tell you this -- I'm far from finished fighting. I'm passionate about these issues. As I say, 50,000 votes and we'd be in a different place with a different conversation." John Kerry, November 16, 2004
Having developed a curious case of amnesia about the legitimacy of an Electoral College win despite a popular vote loss, John Kerry last year agonized at the closeness of the Presidential Election. But for those 50,000 votes (actually, Mr. Kerry would need to "borrow" 60,000 votes to swing Ohio, the home state of Logic Times), the electoral map would have looked like this:
But was it that close? The former Presidential candidate’s argument doesn’t stand up under scrutiny, for if George W. Bush had the same vote-borrowing privileges, he could flip three states and transform the Electoral College map into an even more compelling sea of Red:
Why the Election 2004 reprise? Because the Democratic Party has learned the lesson of 2000 and 2004 very well indeed. Showing an electoral map savvy that they disdained in 2000, the same liberal activists who paid election workers in drugs to register cartoon characters has upgraded their Buckeye State operations in 2005. A group called Reform Ohio Now has placed 4 issues on the Ohio ballot that would eliminate the need for Mary Poppins and Dick Tracy to trudge to the polls in 2008; appointed officials, armed with generous balloting measures, would be at the helm to ensure a "fair" election.
What about Ohio drove liberals nuts in 2004? Ken Blackwell for one. Issue 5 takes care of bothersome law-abiding Republican attorney generals. How about lines at voting precincts? Issue 2 makes sure that if you want to vote on a McDonald’s napkin and drop it off at midnight, your vote will be counted. In addition, Issue 4 takes away redistricting from elected officials (more annoying Republicans) and Issue 3 restricts campaign contributions (but not for 527s). These "real, common sense reforms to take back our state from the politicians who has failed us" will make sure that the Buckeye State is a blue state in 2008. For those not interested in Ohio politics, pay attention: this is the model, the "most important election of 2005" according to the Daily Kos. And it’s headed the way of all competitive red states if it succeeds (one of the websites, in addition to main sponsor MoveOn.org, has a name that says it all: Swing State Project).
Beware conservatives, or 2008 will look like this:
Copyright © 2005 Dan Hallagan. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
1: to_the_right
November 3, 2005 2:22am EST
You only have links for the liberals. Do you have any for the opposing point of view?
{Aslan: My mistake! Try these...
An in case you do not think this is important to the hard, and I mead HARD, Left, here are some supporters:
That is frightening.}
2: Carl W. Goss
November 4, 2005 10:11am EST
Which only goes to show you that the initiative/referendum system should be abolished.
What started as a progressive measure prior to the First World War has become little more than the tool of well-to-do interests trying to push measures that could not get past the give and take of a legislative body.
End initiatives now!
{Aslan: Carl, this is a brilliant observation. If you think about it, the purpose of representative government is to incorporate deliberation and expertise into the process of government and to steer clear of Democracy, which the Founding Fathers feared –
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. - Thomas Jefferson
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. - John Adams
A Democracy is antithetical to Natural Law Rights that lay beyond the reach of Man. Add to the emotional mindlessness of mob rule the subtle manipulations of elite liberals and their allies in the media, and you have a formula for disaster.}
3: Larry Horacek
November 4, 2005 1:29pm EST
I never cease to be amazed with Liberals who, when soundly and legitimately defeated at the polls, will continue to blame anything but themselves and their ideology for the loss. If this so-called "Reform Ohio Now" were actually passed, Libs would still lose and would then present yet another set of "reforms" so that the REAL will of Ohioans could be heard. Spare us.
{Aslan: They are as tenacious as they are wrong.}