Category — Politics

Today, Ron Paul has received over four and three quarter million dollars. And it’s only 8:30. 44,284 individuals have given money to his campaign today. That’s nearly ten thousand more individuals, and nearly a million dollars more than his last record breaking ‘money bomb’ on Nov 5th. And it’s only 8:30.

https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/

The Revolution – be a part of it.

Everyone’s seen the red/blue map of the country, divided by county. What I’m interested in, though, is a map similar to that, only divided by congressional districts.

I’ve searched and the closest I’ve found so far is a state-by-state look at C-SPAN election results.

But I don’t want to go through each state and compile all the data myself… which wouldn’t only be time consuming… but actually pretty difficult to sort through considering how the maps are set up.

I’d really like a list with each state, how many congressional districts there are in the state, and how many went to Bush and how many went to Kerry. I’d love it if someone knows of such a map/table/whatever form of date presentation.

The reason I’m interested in this, is to see how the electoral votes would turn out if our system worked like this:

The electoral votes in each state are determined by the number of seats in the house of representatives (the number of congressional districts) plus two for the Senate seats. I think it would be a better system if electoral votes were given to the winnder of each congressional district. And then, the winner of the popular vote in the state would get the two senate electoral votes (or they could simply be decided by the governor of the state…).

I think that would be a much more accurate representation of the spread of all the people in a state, and thus all the people in the country.

Just some links I don’t want to lose…

No More Excuses

Are Votes on Third Parties Wasted?

I voted for Peroutka. He, obviously, didn’t win. But, I didn’t expect him to win, and I’m not upset about him losing.
I do not believe Bush will lead our nation in the direction we need to be going. I don’t believe Bush will do anything to slow the abortion madness. Or any other madness. I am glad that I did not vote for him.

That being said, I am not adopting a “shake the dust” attitude. I’m not going to simply wash my hands of it, and go away. My hands are clean, but I can’t just leave. I know that I, and other Peroutka voters, need to start working with what we have.

We need to work on a plan, as barlow put it. I don’t want to be one of those people that points out every mistake and complains about it, without actually doing anything to change it. I’m reminded of a commercial where someone drops their trash on the sidewalk, and a group of people gather around it, some disgusted, some making excuses why they aren’t doing anything about it. Then one guy comes along and just picks it up and puts it in a garbage can.

I want to put the garbage in the garbage can.

Election results for Virginia

If you’re curious… I’m in Lynchburg City, Third Ward First Precinct. 10 votes for Peroutka there. I’m guessing I know all of them.

Right now, after reading barlow’s recent post, I feel like Bret:

I know it sounds kind of twisted but sometimes I find myself hoping that Kerry gets elected just so those who believe that ‘W’ is God’s candidate can vent their spleens at those of us who voted the Constitution party, or who decided not to vote at all.

Someday, somewhere, sometime, Christians must undertake Grams long march through the institutions. We must be pro-Establishment, playing the role of cultural leaders. Not whining, pessimistic, backwater contrarians.

Amen, Mr. Sandlin, Amen.

And I say that as someone voting for Michael Peroutka on Tuesday.

p.s. – What’s with all the name-calling? I thought you were against that.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News’ Charles Gibson, Bush said he believes that both Christians and Muslims worship the same God.

“I think we do. We have different routes of getting to the Almighty,” Bush said. “But I want you to understand, I want your listeners to understand, I don’t get to get decide who goes to heaven. The Almighty God decides who goes to heaven and I am on my personal walk,” he said.

Strong Christian values, and all.

Jonathan Edwards: “If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that wheelchair and walk again.”

sigh