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

September 24, 2008 RSS Feed Print

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,; voters,; presidential election 2008,; Electoral College,; John McCain,; Sarah Palin

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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.

Joan, OH of OH 12:41AM October 08, 2008

"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.

Helaine Chersonsky of MA 1:47PM September 28, 2008

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

susan of CA 2:24PM September 25, 2008

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