[geeks] Appropriate Ayn Rand comment for the election...
    Dan Sikorski 
    me at dansikorski.com
       
    Thu Nov  6 15:52:51 CST 2008
    
    
  
Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>   
>> Thank you California, and your 55 electoral votes. I wish they would  
>> go "proportional" but they'd be stupid to do it...
>>     
>
> Watch for howls of proportional representation in California the day a
> Republican presidential candidate wins the state by 1%.
>   
That day was November 2nd, 1976.  I wasn't born yet, so i didn't hear 
the howls, can anyone else comment about how loud they were?  Granted, 
California's 45 electoral votes that year weren't enough to make Ford 
win the election, he lost to Carter.
California went to the Republican candidate for 6 consecutive elections, 
1968-1988.
    -Dan Sikorski
    
    
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