'Touched'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I think that right now the more egregious culprit is that the electoral process - and here I'm thinking specifically of districting - is in most states under partisan political control.
Which is one place where California is ahead of the curve. We approved the appointment of a non-partisan Redistricting committee, and their work was IIRC reviewed by the State Supreme Court, and yesterday the electorate approved the redistricting. No more gerrymandering!
In the future we won't elect presidents. We'll have a primary, then Nate Silver will go into a spice trance and pick the winner.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I am on vacation!
Of course, I still need to clean the house, do some gardening I didn't get to this weekend, take Dita to the vet, go into the office to get a flu shot, decide what to pack, do laundry, get a check in the mail to my sister, possible buy new pants, shave my legs, clean out the fridge, and do a bunch of other stuff I am forgetting.
But I am on vacation. WHOOO
Yay Lee! Where you going?
Chicago!
How fun! have a great time, although I hope you dress warmly!
I am planning on it!
Of course many forms of preferential voting, especially PR, would make partisan redistricting less effective.
I find it interesting that a state gets its EC total by adding its representatives plus senators this evolving how it gives small states a greater proportional representation. (Although there are three extra and I can't remember where they come from? I'm sure someone does...)