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Unbeknownst to most voters, there are (and have been for some time) two states that award electors proportionally – Nebraska and Maine. In other words, the Presidential candidate who wins the state does not automatically receive all its electoral votes. Each Congressional district gets one electoral vote, with the state's overall winner taking the two electors representing the Senators.

So let's say Bush won Nebraska (5 electoral votes, because it has 3 Congressmen and 2 Senators) but one of the state's three Congressional districts had more votes for Kerry than Bush – Kerry would get one electoral vote, and Bush gets four.

This remains unknown because it has not been relevant.
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Nebraska is staunchly Republican and Maine has managed to remain unanimous since adopting this system. However, the Colorado Electoral Reform Act could turn out to be extremely relevant in that divided state.

With 9 electoral votes (7 Districts, plus two Senators), Colorado is not usually considered a huge prize.

It is also traditionally Republican, as the urban and hippie population is easily offset by the fact that the preponderance of the state's employment comes from Aerospace and Defense contractors.

But while the state is Republican on the whole, it has 3 Congressional districts – mainly representing metro Denver and Boulder – that are overwhelmingly Democratic. Another district is a toss-up, and the remaining are strong Republican. Furthermore, Bush's 2000 victory in the state was quite narrow.

If the CERA passes, it will be effective for this election. Even assuming another Bush win, Kerry will likely receive at least 3 electoral votes.
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Given that the state's Senate race is leaning Democratic (State Rep Ken Salazar holding a narrow lead over beer magnate Pete Coors), Kerry could increase that to 5 electoral votes by winning the whole state.

Nothing is set in stone at this point, but leave it to the state that gave us Columbine, the nuclear ICBM, and South Park to add another technical loophole that people don't understand but will argue like experts if it becomes relevant in the election.

Quick, lend me $8,178.57. I'll pay it back, I swear.

See, today the Congressional Budget Office estimated the budget deficit by the end of the decade will balloon to $2.29 trillion dollars. Let's see that with all the zeroes.
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$2,290,000,000,000.00

With our current population of 280,000,000 this leaves the budget deficit at $8,178.57 per person. Bear in mind that the CBO is also probably reporting these figures optimistically because of its pro-Bush leanings.
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The inevitable rising price of oil, energy, and the costs of war could easily make these numbers significantly larger.

Bearing in mind that our national savings rate is negative and the average homeowner is in debt that is 8 to 10 times his or her annual income, I think you would be a fool – and also a terrorist – to dispute any claims that our economy is heating up.

[supply side bullshit]See, what will happen is that by engaging in exorbitent spending while cutting taxes, we'll make the economy grow so much that tax reciepts will increase dramatically. How do we increase tax revenue while cutting tax rates?
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Well you'd have to be a debunked economist to be able to understand it.[/supply side bullshit].

Because, really even if the economy (measured by GDP) grows 10% in the next decade as the proponents of these policies claim (which would be historically high growth), which is larger: 30% of $900 or 25% of $1000?

No pressure. Take your time. Use a calculator.

It's finally upon us: the comedy spectacle otherwise known as the 2004 Republican Convention. Now, some of you feel that the GOP has lost touch with younger voters and people of color. This sort of skepticism means you are a terrorist. You are also wrong.

The speaking lineup does not consist exclusively of 40 to 60 year old white men. It consists of dozens of 40 to 60 year old white men with an intermittent D-list celebrity, self-loathing woman, or black person of no political standing.

Sandwiched between such young, fresh voices as Rick Santorum and Sam Brownback (who will entertain the crowd by unhinging his jaw to demonstrate just how much Pentagon cock he chugs to keep his state the contractor- and soldier-infested shithole it is), you'll find ossified war-horses like Libby Dole, Lindsey Graham, Bill Frist, and Mitch "I'd Fuck My Mother in the Ass for $5" McConnell. The party was desperately trying to put a disproportionately moderate face on its lineup, but NRA and Christian right grousing got Brownback and Santorum added at the very last minute.

Sen. Brownback's speech will finally clarify his stance on the issue of our colors running

No blacks, you say? Well the convention does in fact have two black speakers. First is Maryland Lt. Gov. Mike Steele – the highest ranking black Republican in the nation. Also invited is former Pittsburgh Steeler Lynn Swann. "Ed, I didn't know he was a politician" you might say. He's not. He's never run for office. Apparently the GOP just sent its operatives out with the instructions to, at any and all cost, find a black guy who was willing to speak and was not named Alan Keyes.

Think Hollywood is all liberal? Think again, pinko. The GOP is trotting out a star-studded celebrity lineup featuring Angie Harmon, Erika Harold (Miss America 2003), Dorthy Hamill, Mary Lou Retton, Kerri Strug and – the man who represents everything the GOP stands for – former New York Giant defender Jason Sehorn (Harmon's husband….apparently they're a GOP power couple).

I'd love to say I was picking and choosing the celebrity lineup for maximum comedic effect, but that's it.
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In its entirety. A no-name actress, a former Pageant automaton, three gymnasts (two of which were celebrities about 30 years ago) and the most overpaid piece of shit in the history of professional sports.

In many ways, it's a perfect lineup. Could you possibly think of people who are more removed from reality than Olympic gymnasts (who start training in isolation at about age 3) and Miss America contestants? It's everything the Republican party stands for these days: a pointless, nonspecific yearning for the way things were in 1982.

Sehorn attempts to intimidate the speedy Dennis Hastert

Sehorn, in particular, is a fitting choice. A guy who warmed the bench for a decade while sitting on a 6-year, $36 million contract and getting in the papers every day as "the last white cornerback in football" should replace the elephant as the GOP mascot. He's dumb, he doesn't deserve 90% of what he has, and he had nothing going for him in his career except the privilege of being white.

Apply metaphor as necessary.

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com authors is a Circuit Court judge in Will County, just south of Chicago. Being an upstanding person, the Judge was asked about a year ago to sit on the County's draft board.

You may recall that the sudden interest in reviving the nation's dormant draft boards at the start of the Iraqi Clusterfuck caused some alarm in the media and was a central issue for Ralph Nader's campaign. Having thoroughly mixed feelings about the conflict, the Judge declined to participate. This week, however, Department of Defense investigators called him to follow up on his interview with a DOD official at a Highland Park hotel in June.
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There's only one problem: there was no interview.

Yes, you see, the DOD agent responsible for identifying and interviewing potential draft board candidates had a hard time getting many volunteers.
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The Judge told them "Thanks, but no thanks." So the plucky civil servant did what any civil servant would be apt to do: he made a bunch of stuff up. Irrespective of the fact that the judge never met with or spoke to this individual, the man turned in a completed interview report including specific answers to numerous questions regarding the war and the draft. When the DOD called for a follow-up interview this week and learned this information, they investigated and determined that the employee in question had falsified the majority of his interviews.

So, to summarize: the Department of Defense couldn't get people to fill out draft boards so they simply made up a bunch of interviews to, in essence, volunteer people without their knowledge. It's a small step up from opening the phone book and picking names at random, but we can safely assume that is the next step.

Lots of talk about inflation in the news. Not just currently, but perpetually.

Are we experiencing it? If so, is it too much or just enough? The current administration has had their eternal optimist, Easy Al Greenspan, chanting the mantra of inflation for 9 months now. Why? Inflation would mean the economy is heating up.
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Accordingly, Easy Al has raised the interest rates twice in the last 3 months, with more expected. Of course, with inflation at a near-all-time-low 1.9%, this is nothing more than an effort to delude people into thinking we're not heading into a recession.

Regardless, did you ever wonder what inflation is and how they figure it out? Believe it or not, it's a combination of interesting and ridiculous.

The Department of Labor's Bureau of Economic Analysis calculates, on a monthly basis, this neat number called the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The CPI is, in essence, the monthly cost of a "consumer's standard bundle of goods". The monthly change in this bundle is inflation/deflation. Inflation peaked at 12% in the late Carter years.

At this point, if you're saying "Ed, what is said standard bundle? I bet there are some comically ludicrous differences between the government's idea of what people buy and reality" you'd be right.
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Let's break it down. The main categories are followed by a percentage weighting in the consumer's budget.

So the 40% after "Housing" indicates that they believe the average person spends 40% of his or her budget on housing.

Food (16%) – milk, coffee, fresh chicken, wine and breakfast cereal
Housing (40%) – rent and furniture
Apparel (5%)
Transportation (18%) – new vehicles, airfare, gas, car insurance
Medical care (6%) – prescription drugs, medical and eyeglass care, doctor bills, hospital bills
Recreation (6%) – TV, cable, pets, admissions
Education and Communication (5%) – college tuition, postage, phone service, computers and software
Other (4%) – cigarettes, funeral services

OK. Let's slow down here for a second. The average American, in our economic analysis, spends more on tobacco (we all smoke, of course) than college tuition. Furthermore, prescription drugs are clearly less than 6% of everyone's budget, and we spend more monthly on our new car (which we all have) and airfare than we do on medical care, tuition, communication, and entertainment combined. (Note: Public transit is not counted in transportation. Shove your fare increases up your ass, city folk). Lastly, our diet consists of chicken, wine, and cereal (and no one eats out).

While I try to find a way to decrease my massive monthly tobacco and funeral purchases, I will continue scouring the Earth looking for one single person whose consumer spending profile even remotely approximates this patchwork clusterfuck. And you might want to purchase a large grain of salt to consume with news about "inflation".