I want to share a really good map of the electoral college that I just discovered, one where the size of each state is distorted to represent the number of electoral votes. (A weird map of the U.S. that reminds me of the motor/sensory homunculus based on the distribution of sensory neurons in the human body). Since the number of electoral votes is based on the population of each state, it can be seen as a distortion in terms of the population. This map shows the current standing of "McCain safe" states and "Obama safe" states. Take a look. Yes, the red rural states are comfortingly shrunken but there's still too many of them! What's with New Hampshire, by the way? What the...? And it's interesting that Hawaii appears slightly larger than Alaska.
Today's news has McCain trying to delay the much-anticipated first debate that is scheduled for Friday evening. He wants to put aside campaigning to help Washington take care of the economic crisis. Hmm... there are enough senators and congressmen focusing on it, and anyway, what could McCain possibly contribute by putting aside 2-3 days of campaigning? He's been campaigning for a year and a half already. I have no doubt that he's just freaking out at the prospect of facing Obama the Orator. That's got to be scary, especially from the point of view of someone who inserts foot in mouth every other day and retracts his statements every alternate day... for no real reason.
Time to say goodbye
15 years ago
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Hi Mona,
Thanks for all your enthusiastic involvement!
Here's a column by Garrison Keillor--he's right on! : http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/25/opinion/edkeillor.php
Thanks for the link. Garrison Keillor has been surprisingly outspoken about the elections. I like his line about McCain (after citing his past close involvement with corrupt brokers and bankers, "What we are seeing is the stuff of a novel, the public corruption of an American war hero".
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