Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Election Day

The Texas primary election  - postponed by wrangling in the courts over redistricting – will finally be held today.

If it doesn't accomplish anything else, it will put Mitt Romney over the top as the Republican candidate for President. That won’t make much difference in November; Texas will go to Romney, but the election will be won or lost in the Electoral College, and in a few “battleground” states, notably Florida, Virginia and Ohio.

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 Don’t even try to make sense of the electoral college.  As one American articulated the problem: "The present rule of voting for president ... is so great a departure from the Republican principle of numerical equality ... and is so pregnant also with a mischievous tendency in practice, that an amendment of the Constitution on this point is justly called for by all its considerate and best friends."
The speaker’s name was  James Madison.

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