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Let the Counties Vote!

by Steven D
Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 05:39:46 PM EST

What should be the new strategy for Republicans to retake the White House in four years? That's easy. Don't base elections on how many people vote for a candidate but on how many counties vote for one. Here, let my man Rush Limbaugh explain it to you:

As Chuck Hagel says,

"We are educated by the great entertainers like Rush Limbaugh . . . You know, I wish Rush Limbaugh and others like that would run for office . . . They have so much to contribute and so much leadership and they have an answer for everything. And they would be elected overwhelmingly."

And you know Rush would be elected overwhelmingly for President, if only we voted by the size of the county, or the number of counties, and not the number of people who live in each state. Stupid founding fathers. They should have based our electoral system on counties not states. People are nothing. Land is everything. If we had we never would have sinned against God by electing our first Black Muslim (or is it not a Christian?) President.

CNN's Rick Sanchez reported on a church marquee that reads "America we have a Muslim president. This is a sin against the Lord." Mark Holick is pastor of The Spirit One Christian Center in Wichita, Kansas where the sign is being displayed.
Holick told KSNW, "The main point of the marquee is to cause the Christians to understand he is not a Christian, Again, they will call me and they will tell me that he's not a Muslim because he is a Christian. That's not the point. The point is he's not a Christian."

I think amending the Constitution to allow counties to vote should become the new cause célèbre (or "freedom fries") of right wing bloggers (after Sarah Palin, of course). It's either that or restricting the vote to white male land holders. One or the other.

Let the Counties Vote! | 14 comments (14 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Let the Counties Vote! (none / 0)

Counties were carved by local power brokers defining their turf in the long ago. For example, Virginia has only 95 counties while Georgia has 159 and Texas has 254! Their boundaries have absolutely nothing to do with population so it stands to reason they should be the measure of an election... NOT.

Hey, this idea is almost as good as winning by land mass, i.e., there's more land in the Midwest than in the NE. Mustn't count people, heaven's no! That would be democracy and right-wingnuts don't believe in that.

by sjct on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 05:58:31 PM EST

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Just imagine how many votes Palin would get if they did it by Land mass! Whoo Hoo!

John McCain hates my wife because she's a "gook."

by Steven D on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 06:56:23 PM EST
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Re: Let the Counties Vote! (none / 1)

Sorry, Obama wins by land mass, too. The other six continents all went for him. Including Antarctica.

by Geov Parrish on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 07:25:26 PM EST
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Some states, like Pennsylvania, used to have a bicameral legislature with the senate representing counties and the house, people. So counties that were mainly state forest with a few hundred people had a senator, and so did Philadelphia County.

That part of the state constitution was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court not all that long ago.

by Joyful Alternative on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:55:10 PM EST
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Re: Let the Counties Vote! (none / 1)

Somebody drug test that clown.

"We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; now we know that it is bad economics;" - Franklin Delano Roosevelt

by Salunga on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 07:44:08 PM EST

Re: One more Senate seat in the Begich bag (none / 1)

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens loses re-election bid

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday's count. That's an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.

Well, "You can't vote for war and disown the results"

by idredit on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 08:56:28 PM EST

Okay, someone had to look it up... (4.00 / 2)

Which county had the least population per 2000 census?

Loving County, TX, is the least populous county in the entire United States. ... In 2000, its population was 67.

Clearly, the road to the presidency would start in Loving County.

(Also, it is 677 sq mi, which means the population is about 10 persons per square mile. I think there are less densely populated counties.)

On the other side of the spectrum is

Los Angeles County, with a population of 9,878,554 persons (estimated 2007).

(At 4,752 sq mi, that's about 2,100 persons per sq mi.)

Okay, that begs the next question: How many states have less population than Los Angeles County?

And the answer is a whopping--and surprising--42 states have smaller population size than LA County!!

I don't know how electoral votes are allocated in CA, but does that mean that Los Angeles County inherently has more electoral votes than most states?? If so, wow.

by Sawgrass on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:43:45 PM EST
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Re: Okay, someone had to look it up... (none / 0)

Actually, you've got it backwards. Loving County is one person for every ten square miles. Think about that.

Lots of jackrabbits, though.

by Geov Parrish on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 01:32:11 AM EST
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Re: Let the Counties Vote! (none / 0)

He's gotten monstrously fat!

by wildrez on Tue Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:22:50 PM EST

Re: Let the Counties Vote! (none / 0)

"gotten" ... ?

i'm glad you asked

by aarrgghh on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 01:41:12 AM EST
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shorter rush: "we gotta think of a way that republicans can win every election everywhere — forever!"

i'm glad you asked

by aarrgghh on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 01:40:16 AM EST

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Fat, fat Limbaugh is well on his way to becoming both obese and obscene or, maybe, it's obscenely obese. I think his body weight and his IQ are in inverse ratio and if the fairness doctrine is ever brought back, this dude is in big doo-doo. How can any sentient being listen to his mad palaverings?

To survive cruelties, children had to conceal their own feelings from themselves. Alice Miller The Truth Will Set You Free, p.96

by Daredevil Don on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 07:09:55 AM EST

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The founding fathers are only slightly less dumb than Rush. They gave the red states more electoral votes per person than the blue states.

Oh, that's partisan. Let me restate it. The founding fathers gave the rural states more votes than the urban states. They surely didn't mean to. They just didn't trust the voters, but they did trust the aristocracy that filled the Senate, as they knew it would.

by afox on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 10:41:13 AM EST

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Sure, it all sounds great until you wake up and find your new President elect is Cumberland County Pennsylvania.

by KeithOK on Fri Nov 21st, 2008 at 12:36:06 AM EST

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