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Dividing California's Electoral Votes by Congressional Districts Would Increase the Chance of Electing a President Who Lost the

[courtesy of California Progress Report]

koza_hires.gif By Dr. John R. KozaCo-author of Every Vote Equal: A State-Based Plan for Electing the President by National Popular Vote

The ballot measure to divide California’s 55 electoral votes by congressional district would magnify the worst features of our antiquated Electoral College system of electing the President.

If the district approach were used nationally, it would less accurately reflect the will of the people than the current system. In 2004, Bush won 50.7% of the popular vote, but 59% of the districts. Although Bush lost the national popular vote in 2000, he won 55% of the country’s congressional districts. If the district approach were unilaterally impose on an isolated large state such as California, it would greatly increase the chance that the White House would go to a candidate who did not win the most popular votes nationwide.

The district approach would not, as claimed, make California relevant in presidential elections. Candidates have no reason to campaign in districts (or states) where they are comfortably ahead or hopelessly behind. Currently, candidates concentrate over two-thirds of their money and visits on just six closely divided “battleground” states, and 99% of their expenditures in just 16 states. Thus, two thirds of the states are ignored in presidential elections.

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Look Into The Vietnam Mirror, See Iraq

by Bob Mulholland [courtesy of Party Line]


. . . And Bush Won't Ask For Directions

After years of Bush stating that Iraq and Vietnam had nothing in common, Bush is now saying we should have stayed in Vietnam even longer than we did. The first American died there in 1957, the last one in April of 1975 – that’s an 18-year war.

I am no expert on wars or insurgencies, but with my personal experience (101st Airborne, Vietnam 1967-68) and travel and meetings in over 50 countries (including Kosovo in 1999), I probably have instinctive knowledge and understanding ten times what Bush Jr. and Karl Rove have on Iraq.

Bush Jr. did his war time service in Alabama getting paid about $2,000 a month “working” for a losing Republican candidate for U.S. Senate.  His landlady at the time said Bush Jr.’s room every day looked like a frat house on a Saturday morning.

Rove, of course, believed he was not fit or capable to serve in the military (he was right), so he somehow avoided military service during the Vietnam War.  Cheney used seven draft deferments (including getting Mrs. Cheney pregnant) to avoid being called up, and Rumsfeld was in the Navy right after the Korean War. 

The rest of Bush Jr.’s “Let’s Invade Iraq” team never had a drill instructor in their face. 

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Impeach Him

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

If George Bush won't fire U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, then Congress can.

Demand Congress impeach Gonzales now:
http://www.ImpeachGonzales.org

First, Alberto Gonzales and Karl Rove worked together to fire at least seven U.S. Attorneys because they weren't "loyal Bushies" and pushed several others to resign in an unethical crusade to make the U.S. Justice Department a partisan arm of the Bush administration.

Then they worked together to cover it up.

Gonzales went so far as to testify to Congress that he "was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions going on." When White House e-mails exposed his involvement, Gonzales changed his tune in an interview with 60 Minutes then changed his tune again by hiding behind, "I don't recall" more then 60 times in his second Congressional testimony. Time's up for Alberto Gonzales!

http://www.ImpeachGonzales.org

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Impeach Him

by Sheri Divers [courtesy of Blog for America]

 If George Bush won't fire U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, then Congress can.

Demand Congress impeach Gonzales now:
http://www.ImpeachGonzales.org

First, Alberto Gonzales and Karl Rove worked together to fire at least seven U.S. Attorneys because they weren't "loyal Bushies" and pushed several others to resign in an unethical crusade to make the U.S. Justice Department a partisan arm of the Bush administration.

Then they worked together to cover it up.

Gonzales went so far as to testify to Congress that he "was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions going on." When White House e-mails exposed his involvement, Gonzales changed his tune in an interview with 60 Minutes then changed his tune again by hiding behind, "I don't recall" more then 60 times in his second Congressional testimony. Time's up for Alberto Gonzales!

http://www.ImpeachGonzales.org

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