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2009-02-21 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2009-02-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Maybe they should hold a lottery. Heck, maybe they should hold a lottery for all of the Senate seats. They probably wouldn't end up with a worse bunch than they have now.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-02-21 00:30|| 2009-02-21 00:30|| Front Page Top

#2 I think it was William Buckley who observed that he'd rather be governed by the first 3,000 people listed in the telephone book than 3,000 Harvard grads.

Posted by Steve White 2009-02-21 02:31|| 2009-02-21 02:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Must be a Yale thing Doc.

Posted by .5MT 2009-02-21 08:01|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-02-21 08:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Doc - small correction. Buckley said he'd rather be lead by the folks in the telephone book than the 2000 Haaaahvad faculty.

Posted by GORT 2009-02-21 08:29|| 2009-02-21 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 Is it just me, but I do want one of these corrupt officials to spit up the messiah?

Posted by HammerHead 2009-02-21 08:37|| 2009-02-21 08:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Dream on Quinn. Or are you auditioning for Sir Joke Alot ? Tombstone has a death grip on the office and ain't givin' it up until he's returned to room temperature.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-02-21 11:47|| 2009-02-21 11:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Maybe they should hold a lottery

Don't you mean an auction?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-02-21 13:24|| 2009-02-21 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 g(r)om, since many elections today are almost like auctions, and appointments like Burris's almost surely are auctions, a lottery should at least introduce fairness into the process.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia">Rambler in Virginia 2009-02-21 15:20|| 2009-02-21 15:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Auction would work.

Posted by Pappy 2009-02-21 15:24|| 2009-02-21 15:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Maybe they should hold a lottery

In 1980, the US Census results caused a boundary shift for election districts in Illinois. One proposed boundary change went right down Florida Ave in Urbana, cutting off State Rep. Helen Satterthwaite (D-Reasonable Person) from the district she represented. Both Republicans and Democrats waded into the muck with vigor. They hit a deadlock, and wound up placing the two plans in Abraham Lincoln's hat and drawing the plan out by chance.

Posted by mom">mom 2009-02-21 19:20|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2009-02-21 19:20|| Front Page Top

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