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Thursday, May 22
David Cook vs. George W. Bush
97.5 million people voted on American Idol on Tuesday night. 122 million voted in Presidential election in 2004. Should we open up the election to 13 year-olds? Make the candidates sing? Might get the vote out more that way. Or maybe if one could just text message the word vote to "PRES OBAM" "McCA" or "CLIN" more people vote. ; )
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While I agree with the (perceived) cynicism, I can't help but note that 97.5 million people didn't vote; 97.5 votes were cast.
ReplyDeleteHaving said that, this system probably compares favorably with the local elections in Chicago over the years. "Vote early; vote often; count the votes of the dead."
Yeah, I guess people can vote multiple times as long as it is from a different phone #.
ReplyDeleteActually, I was feeling more amused than cynical... I don't actually think MORE people should vote in major elections if they are just going to do it haphazardly.
ReplyDeleteIts inteesting that I found this post today, ironic even. I'm in a psychology class right now and my proffesor brought up this very topic, and I guess its been in the news quite a bit, so maybe its not that ironic, but to my point, its probably a good thing that voting for the president is a little more difficult than just texting in your prefference, or we might end up with Kelly Clarkson as the next president.
ReplyDeletePeople can really vote as many times as they want on the same phone? (I was just reading about it). That's crazy! What about all these teens that have unlimited texting? Kind of makes the votes pointless. I think they should limit it to one vote per phone #.
ReplyDeleteI guess more people actually did vote for W over David Cook. Whew. I was worried there for a second.
Ya, I'm pretty sure between me and my roommates we logged darn near 1,000 votes for David A. Ya, ya, ya, we were probably the only males over 20 on the planet voting for him, but whatever, we still had fun.
ReplyDeleteI'm now going to find something masculine to do. ;-)
Ha! I knew it was a sham, lol. :)
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