Re: [tlug] Re: Somewhat OT- open source software for US voting machines

["SL Baur" <steve@example.com>]

On 10/10/08, Kenneth Burling <burlingk@example.com> wrote:

> Part of his statistical chances to win being 90.8% as you put it are because
> we rarely go from an 8 year term with one party into another president from
> the same party.  Obama is not a Republican.  That is what will win this for
> him.

That is true.  I think Bush I was the only one in (at
least) the last 100 years and he was VP going in.[1]  The exceptions
have been where the previous President died in office and the sitting
VP won the next election.  Truman does not count, he was
running as an unelected incumbent.

> All the various polls though tend to indicate that they are staying within
> 3% of eachother.  Every time one of them does something messed up to piss
> people off, the other has to go and do something just as bad.  Every time
> one of them does something good to make people happy, they go and say
> something about their opponent to balance it out.

Obama could not close out Hillary!.   He required the super
delagates to win, even though Hillary! had more of the popular
vote (gee, now doesn't that sound familiar?).  He is not closing
out McCain, who has mostly been doing everything he can to
lose.

> This is the strangest election cycle in decades.  ^.^

Not really.  The US is a deeply divided nation.  A vast majority
of the country despises DC and this manifests itself in low vote
rates and a welcome to anyone who runs as an outsider.

And not really because of the personalities involved.  Obama
is a white-washed socialist clown, McCain is a white-washed
spineless compromiser.  Oh wait, I mean "bipartisan".

Does anyone else know about the Democrat lawyer in
Pennsylvania who is suing to have Obama produce his
real birth certificate, among other papers proving his
citizenship?  The last action in that case was a Protective
Order Staying Discovery on the part of Obama's lawyers.

Everyone else in the country has to produce papers on
request, why can't Obama?[2]

[1]  Fascinating that I have a video tape of a Pebble Beach
Pro-Am where a now former-President Bush states on camera
that the most thrilling moment of his life was competing in that
golf tournament for the first time - after participating in 3
WINNING presidential elections.  US politicians really all are
lying swine.

[2]  Obama is^H^Hwas Muslim.  That's not particularly a problem
with me, especially considering my own domestic situation, but I
seriously doubt that he can be elected if he shows papers from
his youth upon which his parents have documented him as a
Muslim.