Showing posts with label Polics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Polics. Show all posts

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Now what?


Super Tuesday is over and the dust is starting to settle. The results are interesting but as expected. The biggest surprise on the Republican side is the fact that Huckabee won quite a few more states than the zero predicted for him. This happened because some of the evangelicals decided to vote according to their faith and Huckabee is the only Christian. The GOP vote is a winner take all format, so winning those states hamstrung Romney. Huckabee stole more of Romney's votes than McCain's and put the latter on the stage of victory. Honestly, McCain's my man. I have figured out why. He is a liberal conservative such as myself as mentioned in the Black Republican article from before.

Clinton and Obama are basically tied. Hillary won the larger and coastal states, while Barack's vote came from the smaller middle states. The story can be spun many ways stating both sides claimed victory. Using football philosophies, it would seem that the longer Obama is in the race, the greater chance for victory. This is true for all underdogs. A sense in hope can generate within the perceived lesser that is many times more powerful than the greater. Obama is the underdog in this situation. I'm waiting for the Al Gore hammer to drop.

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Ramifications

Now back to the rock vs yowder discussion.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_on_go_ot/cocaine_sentencing

There are something like 19,500 inmates that may be affected by this change in cocaine sentencing. I'm guessing there are at least 10,000 fatherless children out of that group and at least 6000 are below the poverty level. That is what the jacked up law did. The goverment caused the creation of more welfare recipients. Jacked up laws don't affect the current, they affect posterity.