Monday, November 08, 2004
Interesting Thoughts
The blogosphere has been quite interesting. I'm still not sure I understand why some folks don't get the concept of majority rule. Those of us who didn't vote for President Clinton dealt with it - and he had much less of a mandate as far as percentage of the popular vote. Another interesting question - how much wider of a spread between the two candidates would there have been if the Democrats hadn't worked so hard to keep Ralph Nader off the ballot.
It's also amazing that some are questioning the exit polls - which are, first of all, primarily designed to understand why people voted the way they did - not predict the outcome. And the idea that they concentrated on cities and stacked it 60%/40% in favor of women. The heartland really does count and we actually do have brains and didn't even have to go to the wizard to get one.
It will be an interesting four years. I'm sure Hillary is happy because it appears that she can easily emerge as the frontrunner for the Democrats in 2008. Did you know that her husband knew about his heart blockage but put off his surgery for about 4 months . . . interesting timing.
There's a good article in the Chronicle (subscription required) on the Clinton Library. The only point the author misses is that although FDR set up the first "modern" presidential library, he did what FDR usually did and only worried about his own. It was Missouri-born Harry Truman who had to go home to live with is mother-in-law that worked to pass legislation regarding presidential libraries and presidential pensions.
It's also amazing that some are questioning the exit polls - which are, first of all, primarily designed to understand why people voted the way they did - not predict the outcome. And the idea that they concentrated on cities and stacked it 60%/40% in favor of women. The heartland really does count and we actually do have brains and didn't even have to go to the wizard to get one.
It will be an interesting four years. I'm sure Hillary is happy because it appears that she can easily emerge as the frontrunner for the Democrats in 2008. Did you know that her husband knew about his heart blockage but put off his surgery for about 4 months . . . interesting timing.
There's a good article in the Chronicle (subscription required) on the Clinton Library. The only point the author misses is that although FDR set up the first "modern" presidential library, he did what FDR usually did and only worried about his own. It was Missouri-born Harry Truman who had to go home to live with is mother-in-law that worked to pass legislation regarding presidential libraries and presidential pensions.
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