Also, to be fair Mcain is not a Bush 2.0
No, but his campaign staff sure the frak are 2004 redux. Idiots. If I were a McCain supporter that "idiots" would be prefaced with a long string of profanity.
I tempted to bet either 1 or 2. Leaning toward one (Virginia) but not sure about Florida?
I'm Floridian, politics is my sports, but I've never been a betting man. That said, I have a hunch that Florida is more likely to go for McCain than Virginia is. The wallet-vote factor in Virginia includes proximity to DC, and hence employment and contracting opportunities from the coming fiscal stimulus packages. Still, Florida is already very different than it was in 2004--the Hispanic vote is no longer solidly dominated by Cuban right-wingers and a big share of our retirees have seen big personal economic losses and serious threats to employment for their kids & grandkids. It's a dicey call, so I suppose betting makes sense if you like throwing down money that might be for nothing.
I'm going to go vote, but I really do not care who wins the Presidency. Blah to both of them! The congressional voting is where the real changes are made anyway. By the way, we really need to do something about getting rid of a 2-party system. All we end up with is a choice between 2 people who most of us would really rather not have in charge. It ends up being a pick between the lesser of two evils.
That has been pretty much the story for me since my first election in 1984. At least this time my party's nominee was not at or near the bottom of my list from the primaries (I supported Bill Richardson early on). What I really want to see from folks like Leo is a nation-wide effort to get a constitutional amendment that changes the House from single-member, winner-take-all districts to a party-based system. We might end up looking a lot like the 2.5-party system Astrath describes, but at least it would be a result of voter behavior and not a crude structrual accident.
Edit: quoting still seems broken if you try to mix selectins with attributed blocks.
