Posts by Paul Campbell
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God is mad with the Republicans? no - he's performing on cue
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I guess it depends on whether or not you think they might be true or not (in which case trying to pull one over the press goes to her credibility) - remember it's Alaska, kind of like small town NZ, everyone knows everyone else's business, in the long run there will be no secrets there
There's really only one criteria for the electorate when choosing a VP in the US - "can they fill the spot if the President croaks" - she's definitely in Dan Quayle territory there
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IMHO opinion the most worrying thing about Sarah Palin is that, well, she might just be the Flying Nun (or Gidget, it's hard to tell)
The current set of rumours about her possible fake pregnancy are a hoot too ....
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It always seemed to me to be wonderfully ironic that the "Random acts of kindness" meme devolved at one point into a slanging match over who invented it between supporters of peace activist Anne Herbert ("Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.") and some fundie group who also claimed the slogan
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I think the point is not "did Helen trust Owen Glenn" but "did Helen think the public would trust Owen Glenn" at that particular point of time (when the nats and the media were beating on him)
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Anyone else noticed Key's been pushing the "secret agenda" meme all morning .... or rather I suspect he's simply attempting to tar everyone with the label so it wont seem so strange on him
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Just a thought .... "a vote for Winston is a vote for Labour" does sort of encourage those Labour voters in Tauraunga to switch their electorate votes doesn't it ....
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hmm you're right - I wonder why I ended up think they actually got to meet and argue? I guess it has something to do with some states which used to actually directly elect (or appoint) the electors and they potentially get to argue
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ah but remember the electoral college is supposed nut out the president between them - they don't have to vote for the guy they represent - in 2000 Nader would probably have ended up holding some electoral votes and eventually would have fallen in behind one of the other candidates - the congress only get involved it the EC can't eventually get its act together
But you're right - making the EC proportional at the state level (to avoid a constitutional amendment) is still a vague approximation of true representative democracy
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well I'd disagree - allocating electoral voters for the presidency would make sense if every state did it (and that avoids a constitutional change) but doing it piecemeal would disrupt the rather delicate balance that keeps the bigger states out of play and gives the smaller states more relative power which IMHO is the real barrier to reform