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Information Salad #76: The We Heart Politics Episode
By Slobokan | February 9, 2008
This week, we have a lively discussion about politics and we definitely don’t do sleepies.
- Vinny is happy it’s Friday.
- Slobokan is working on the new version of Stuffr.
- Romney was rude and tactless not to inform Laura Ingraham he was quitting before she announced.
- Super Tuesday was anything but…wasn’t it?
- What happens when a news anchor makes an unappropriate comment towards a candidates’ daughter?
- We touch on a LOT of issues in this episode, including torture, health care, the war, and the debates.
- Vinny plans to get one of these.
Our theme song:
- Termoli by Stargarden (courtesy of Magnatune)
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February 9th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Perot got 19% of the vote in 1992 to Nader’s 3% in 2000.
Also, on Hot Air it said that Laura Ingraham said she learned Romney was leaving 10 minutes before she spoke. That might actually be worse than not telling her at all, because she had her entire speech ready to go and no time to change it.
A liberal friend and I were talking about what to do with the primary season next time around. I definitely think that we should take a long, hard look at the primary format for next election. The problem is that when you do that, most people’s idea of changing the system involves finding a primary season where your candidate didn’t get it, then change everything around so that you would’ve gotten your way. Romney would still be in the race if it was proportional representation, but if we switch to a system like that, you never know if in 20 years another “McCain” will come along and end up winning under the new system. I pray to God that in 2012 the primary season doesn’t get pushed back an earlier.
A few problems with the national primary day idea: Having really early caucuses/primaries helps convince the “no shot in hell”s to drop out. Having more options can be a good thing, but by the time the later primaries roll around, candidates are starting to get above 50% of the vote in states, as opposed to winning 25% of the vote against seven other candidates. In fact, I think that if they could somehow do it like American Idol (of course, eliminating the multiple voting) that would be MUCH more preferable to what we have now.
Too bad in politics the way things go is to not fix things that are broken and to break things that are already fixed, so in 2012 we’ll probably see even earlier primaries, with the last ones ending at about the same time.