[geeks] Appropriate Ayn Rand comment for the election...

[Lionel Peterson]

On Nov 5, 2008, at 7:20 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net>  
wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> I would have expected a bigger margin in the results, given the money
>> involved (one raised over $700 Million directly, the other raised
>> about one third as much, including public funds), but then again, the
>> last time someone got north of 62 Million votes was in the 2004
>> election...
>>
>> But when that fellow won it wasn't considered a "landslide" or a
>> "mandate" - my how times have changed the threshold for those two
>> terms...
>
> It wasn't a "mandate" by popular vote, IMHO, although he did squeak  
> out
> a bare majority rather than a plurality.  On the other hand, that  
> 52% of
> the popular vote *did* get him about 70% of the electoral vote.

Thank you California, and your 55 electoral votes. I wish they would  
go "proportional" but they'd be stupid to do it...

I think Prop. 8 in CA was a wake-up call for a lot of folks...

Lionel