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Opinion

Michael Barone

McCain-Palin Hunting for Votes (and Moose) in Maine

September 24, 2008 04:04 PM ET | Michael Barone | Permanent Link | Print

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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

To make every vote in every state politically relevant and equal in presidential elections, support the National Popular Vote bill.

The National Popular Vote bill would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC). The bill would take effect only when enacted by states possessing a majority of the electoral votes (270 of 538). When the bill comes into effect, all the electoral votes from those states would be awarded to the presidential candidate who receives the most popular votes in all 50 states (and DC).

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.

see http://www.NationalPopularVote.com

Not at all imposible!

At the end of the 2007 NCAA football season last year their was not but a slim chance that L.S.U. would play in a BCS Bowl. However two almost impossible occurrences had to happen for L.S.U. to play in the BCS Championship game. That's right, for the National Championship. WELL, it happened. L.S.U. played Ohio State for the National Championship and won in a real big way. OHIO!!!. This kind of give you Goose Bumps just thinking about it. Never say never.

All important Moose hunt

Yup, the great Maine moose hunt. Makes that stuff about $700 billion to bail out Wall Street seem pretty trivial, huh?

Tiebreaker?

I would enjoy watching another civics lesson unfold in 2008 as in 2000.

As the vote stands now, the realclearpolitics.com state-by-state averages have McCain ahead in states worth 265 electoral votes. If he can flip New Hampshire where he's close, that would be a 269-269 electoral tie.

Obama would win that tie, however, due to the 27-22-1 breakdown of the states' House delegations. (Palin would have a better shot in the Senate deliberations, because Joe Lieberman just might back his friend John McCain's pick over his colleague Joe Biden. An Obama-Palin result would be one whale of a national civics lesson but I digress.)

So if McCain could claim Maine 2, he'd win 270-268, and a LOT of recount inquests would begin. A great civics lesson indeed.

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Michael Barone is a senior writer for U.S.News & World Report and principal coauthor of The Almanac of American Politics. He has written for many publications—including the Economist and the New York Times.

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