November 5, 2008
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NaBloPoMo Day 5 (on time!)
So, the election is finally over. Yesterday I was finding that my biggest hope was that there would be no questions about the results, particularly in the presidential race. That is certainly the case. The result is basically what I expected two years ago. It was going to be almost impossible for a Republican to win (and McCain? guh!), and I figured Clinton would be dragging along too much baggage to get the Democratic nomination. With the rest of the Democratic candidates being non-starters (seriously, Biden has tried running for the last 20 years, did he honestly think he’d win this time? and Edwards? If he couldn’t get past John “Herman Munster” Kerry, how could he get past Obama the consummate campaigner?), that really only left the messianic Obama.
Have you seen “Brewster’s Millions”? One of the things Brewster does is run a “none of the above” campaign. I’m trying to refine an idea that could give that option to the voters. It probably wouldn’t have made a difference in this presidential election, but in a lot of our more local races, I know many people would have used it. If nothing else, it would be a means for demonstrating to those who do win that they are fooling themselves if they think their victory is any sort of mandate.
Anyway, I have a paper to write.
