Saturday, October 06, 2007

Political Futures


Good slate guide to resources. Personally, I can't see how anyone but Fred Thompson can win the election so it all seems rather irrelevant. However as someone who doesn't understand the concept of gambling when the odds are against you, this provides me with an outlet for my addictive tendencies.

As a side-bar, it would be fascinating if votes were counted not just as each vote being equal to another but as each vote having more weight depending on the passion with which the vote was cast. And there would be minimum thresholds of passion that had to be met, and in that way you could have a presidential election that would not result in a winner, because so many of the votes were motivated by something teetering on utter indifference. Maybe then we would have a second round of voting with the top vote-getters, with lower passion thresholds.