McCain-Palin Hunting for Votes (and Moose) in Maine
Picking up on my Frozen North post, Dan at Gay Patriot argues that the McCain-Palin ticket has a chance to pick up one electoral vote from Maine's Second Congressional District. (Maine, like Nebraska, assigns two electoral votes to the ticket that carries the state and one each to the ticket that carries each congressional district.) He notes helpfully that Maine's moose hunting season occurs this week and also October 13-18.
Tags: Maine | Electoral College | presidential election 2008 | voters | John McCain | Sarah Palin
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Hunting
If you kill wolves with an automatic rifle from a helicopter ro save the moose and then you hunt and kill the moose you are either crazy, a killer, in Alaska, or the three combined.
presidential race
"True insanity is to take an illogical position and argue logically from it." If anyone really thinks Obama won Friday's debate, I have a bridge somewhere in Brooklyn I'd like to sell them. I shudder at the disaster Obama would bring on this country. I thought Obama was about change. Why is he bringing up the past so much-could it be that he would bring his advisors like Laura Tyson and Franklin Raines, who brought about this financial mess, back? Hitler and his henchmen learned an important psychological trick: lie about your opponent and accuse your opponent of doing what you are actually doing.It provides a quirky mental twist that is hard to fight.
The National Popular Vote bill
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The National Popular Vote bill has been approved by 21 legislative chambers (one house in CO, AR, ME, NC, and WA, and two houses in MD, IL, HI, CA, MA, NJ, RI, and VT). It has been enacted into law in Hawaii, Illinois, New Jersey, and Maryland. These states have 50 (19%) of the 270 electoral votes needed to bring this legislation into effect.
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