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

[Phil Stracchino]

Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>   
>>> Thank you California, and your 55 electoral votes. I wish they would  
>>> go "proportional" but they'd be stupid to do it...
>>>     
>> Watch for howls of proportional representation in California the day a
>> Republican presidential candidate wins the state by 1%.
>>   
> 
> That day was November 2nd, 1976.  I wasn't born yet, so i didn't hear 
> the howls, can anyone else comment about how loud they were?  Granted, 
> California's 45 electoral votes that year weren't enough to make Ford 
> win the election, he lost to Carter.
> 
> California went to the Republican candidate for 6 consecutive elections, 
> 1968-1988.

Proportional representation wasn't on the table then, though.


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