Having said that, my dildo Clint Eastwood post got triple the number of hits, so it sounds like the people have spoken. I'm rebranding this little hangout to Baby Bump Watch Wardrobe Malfuction Kimye Weekly, so get ready to gossip!!! Who did what now on last night's American Idol/Real Housewives of Minneapolis/Bachelor?
Not really, I thought I would start with something a long time coming that will finally come to pass in early 2014:
Always the show-off progressive attention whore part of The Union, California will become one of a handful of states with a "Minority Majority," meaning the Minorities will be the Majority of the population which is just nonsense and we should just call Caucasians The Minority like the word means. But there it is. According to the article, Caucasians will make up just 37% of California's population by 2020 with that percentage dropping as time marches on. Interestingly, the article mentions a prediction that California will have fifty million people there by 2060. New Mexico and Hawaii also have Minority Majorities, but what does that mean for politics?
Not much since California's in the bag for whatever Marxist Socialist candidate the Democrats throw our way, but let's take a look at Texas.
According to that article, the non-Hispanic white kids under the age of five are outnumbered 2.2 to 1, meaning in a few short election cycles, things are going to get very different in the Don't Mess With State. Texas will hopefully be a state in play sometime in the next few decades.
Obviously that can't make the Republicans too comfortable, so they have a two-pronged attack lined up.
The first prong is called Pandering:
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Basically, lip service about immigration reform after years of spitting in the face of minorities.
Second, Cheating:
Five states had been considering legislation that would have awarded electoral college votes based on Congressional districts. Virginia, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, five states that you never hear about during a presidential election, had considered such legislation that would have -
heavily favor Republican presidential candidates — tilting the voting power away from cities and toward rural areas — and make it more likely that the candidate with the fewest votes over all would win a larger share of electoral votes.Because who wants the majority to win in a democracy? Had such measures been in place for the 2012 election, we'd be looking at President Romney, winner of the electoral college and loser of the popular election. In 2016, we'd have a re-elected Romney, again winner of the electoral college and loser of the popular election. In 2020, we'd probably have another republican two-term president who once again won the electoral college and lost the popular vote. And because the Republicans gerrymandered the congressional districts in 2010, they'd probably still be in a position to renew those gerrymandered districts in 2020, continuing this stupidity for another ten years. Sure gerrymandering sounds like a fun thing flappers did in the 1920's, but it's a serious threat to our way of governing.
One great factoid from that article:
Paul Bibeau, who writes “a blog of dark humor” from Virginia, points out a numerical oddity about the effects of the Virginia law that turns out, upon reflection, to be more stinging than funny: “This bill counts an Obama voter as 3/5 of a person.”
Luckily most of those five states have been shamed into pulling back on these electoral college ideas, but I for one don't want to have to rely on Republican shame as the last line of defense for fair elections because I could see that disappearing with the "right" people getting elected (s'up Tea Party?). Look at Michigan, just about the shittiest Republican behavior there is... they're moving forward with their electoral college ideas. It may not pass, but it feels like even money that it does given the Michigan state government's tendency to puke on all things democratically decent.That is because, as Talking Points Memo says, “Obama voters would have received almost exactly 3/5 of the electoral vote compared to their actual population — 30.7 percent of the electoral vote over 51 percent of the popular vote.”
Luckily, these threats to our democracy have not at all raised the important questions that should be kicking around. Why do we have an electoral college still? Why do politicians get to set voting districts instead of independent councils? Why are we unable to remove these unbelievably obvious splinters from our way of life?
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