On Slate…

In an earlier post, I went into some detail about my voting experience in the last several elections.  The theme basically was that, for the mot part, an individual vote doesn’t matter, especially in states that are very clearly going one way or another.   In this situation, I’ve often voted not for my favorite candidate, […]

The best thing about American politics is how nearly none of our individual votes actually count. Here’s my summary of the past few presidential elections. In 2000, I wasn’t old enough to vote in the Republican primary. Even if I had, Bush would have won Texas no matter what. My vote wouldn’t have mattered. In […]

Despite the fact that some of my favorite people have strong affinity to Florida, I’ve always thought of it as kind of…  well, the worst place in America.  Like most of my opinions, I don’t have much of a reason for not liking it so much, but it doesn’t change the fact that I think […]

So Obama has won Iowa. Hooray. No, seriously, hooray! I guess it wasn’t that shocking, really. I mean, the last few weeks showed him more or less on the top, but nobody put him at 38% over 30 for the other two. So I guess that was shocking, in the mildest sense of the word. […]

…Actually that’s not a newsflash at all.  It’s old news.  Really old. That said, the Clinton campaign has brought it up, cause, you know…  um..  actually, I’m not sure why.  Probably  has something to do with all the new polls that show people are starting to realize how not awesome she is.  That said, let’s […]

Andrew Sullivan recently published an essay on the Obama candidacy in the Atlantic.  I support Obama, and I’ve always had a difficult time explaining why, even though it seems to me such an obvious choice.  Sullivan, I think, has helped me understand why I face that dilemma.  Policy-wise, there’s not a whole lot different from […]