En u dacht Karl Rove meer tijd met zijn familie doorbracht

O.k., onderhand, hebben zij waarschijnlijk werkelijk geen Karl Rove nodig. Ik beteken, wat hij deed en soms nog was precies raket geen wetenschap, en onderhand zou u denken dat iedereen wie bereid een laag-beneden vuile rotte oplichter en een leugenaar is te worden zou geleerd hebben hoe te om dit materiaal te doen.

En zo hebben zij. Als ik lees dit rapport van Johann Hari van Onafhankelijk (via Seattle Post Intelligencer) behoorlijk, werd dit waarschijnlijk uitgebroed in een brainstormingszitting bij de campagne Giuliani en is al wild en viraal sindsdien gegaan.

Hari is zeer goed bij het verklaren van aan niet-Merkins hoe gevoelig de V.S. Electoral College system could be to phony attempts to democratize the system in one state alone — one strategic state, California — while maintaining the system elsewhere:

Today, the Republicans are trying to exploit the discontent with the Electoral College among Americans in a way that would rig the system in their favor. At the moment, every state apart from Maine and Nebraska hands out its Electoral College votes according to a winner-takes-all system. This means that if 51 percent of people in California vote Democrat, the Democrats get 100 percent of California’s electoral votes; if 51 percent of people in Texas vote Republican, the Republicans get 100 percent of Texas’ electoral votes.The Republicans want to change this — but in only one Democrat-leaning state. California has gone Democratic in presidential elections since 1988, and winning the sunny state is essential if the Democrats are going to retake the White House. So the Republicans have now begun a plan to break up California’s Electoral College votes and award a huge chunk of them to their side.

They have launched a campaign called California Counts, and they are trying to secure a statewide referendum in June to implement their plan. They want California’s electoral votes to be divvied up not on a big statewide basis, but according to the much smaller congressional districts. The practical result? Instead of all the state’s 54 Electoral College votes going to the Democratic candidate, around 20 would go to the Republicans.

If this were being done in every state, everywhere, it would be an improvement. California’s forgotten Republicans would be represented in the Electoral College, and so would Texas’ forgotten Democrats. But by doing it in California alone, they are simply giving the Republicans a massive electoral gift. Suddenly it would be extremely hard for a Democrat ever to win the White House; they would need a landslide victory everywhere else to counter this vast structural imbalance against them on the West Coast.

Fiendish, yes? And read on for the profiles of the particular fiends involved.

We are facing some seriously unpleasant people in North America these days, are we not? It is still hard for me to accept that the bastards really are such bastards and do have such power. But it seems that they are, and they do.

There are some nice North Americans, though. H/t on this story to my friend strategerie at The Little Pink Clubhouse, aka The Heartbreak Blog, who is always there with the chocolate and the kleenex.

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