I don't think this one needs any explanation. I'll just say that eight years later, the world's a different place...
Just a few random post-election election thoughts:
Blah
blah blah, mandate from the people, blah blah blah, margin of victory,
blah blah blah, most votes of any president, blah blah blah, most
popular president ever. Tired of hearing the same old, same old from
those pundits too…let’s not say stupid; let’s say…preoccupied with
saying, “We won! We won! Nanny-nanny-boo-boo!” to actually look at some
other facts?
Mandate from the people? There were two, actually.
The narrow majority said, “We love you, George!” The narrow minority
said, “Get the hell out!” Let’s be honest and say that there were two
mandates from the people: “I love you, get out!” It’s like a marriage.
No wonder this election was about family values.
Margin of
victory? I love this spin: “It’s the biggest margin of victory ever!”
Like hell; it’s about average. Don’t just listen to your preachers,
kids, look it up. Most popular votes ever? This one is true. George W.
swept into office with more popular votes than any president in history.
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Thursday, November 4, 2004
"Choose Your Own Election" (Column)
This was fun. It also got mentioned on other sites and a few
political sites linked to it. But nobody plagiarized this one. I
greatly enjoyed writing this one. There were calls for a sequel, but I
knew this was a one-time-only deal.
As much as I’d like to have a column written about the election returns, it just wasn’t going to happen this week. Unfortunately, PW goes to press on Tuesday afternoon, long before the results would start to roll in – and possibly days before the winner is decided. But to stay timely, I decided to do a column that would be accurate for every possible Presidential election outcome – a difficult task to be sure, but one whose answer came to me in the form of a series of children’s books. Anyone who went through elementary or junior high school in the early 1980’s might be familiar with the format, which is in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
If you could figure out how to vote, you should be able to figure out how to do this. I call this Choose Your Own Election #1: The Ballot of Eternity.
START HERE: Did you vote? If you did, go to 1. If you didn’t, go to 19. If you’re too young to vote, pretend.
As much as I’d like to have a column written about the election returns, it just wasn’t going to happen this week. Unfortunately, PW goes to press on Tuesday afternoon, long before the results would start to roll in – and possibly days before the winner is decided. But to stay timely, I decided to do a column that would be accurate for every possible Presidential election outcome – a difficult task to be sure, but one whose answer came to me in the form of a series of children’s books. Anyone who went through elementary or junior high school in the early 1980’s might be familiar with the format, which is in the style of the Choose Your Own Adventure series.
If you could figure out how to vote, you should be able to figure out how to do this. I call this Choose Your Own Election #1: The Ballot of Eternity.
START HERE: Did you vote? If you did, go to 1. If you didn’t, go to 19. If you’re too young to vote, pretend.
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