tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449698792503050487.post6279156359136697857..comments2023-10-06T07:39:18.185-04:00Comments on Tangential Convergence: Episode 30 - Four More Beers!Dave Brodbeckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11047006438197726412noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449698792503050487.post-70765895603985197752012-10-23T23:08:08.984-04:002012-10-23T23:08:08.984-04:00What I really wonder about if the low-ion-Twitter-...What I really wonder about if the low-ion-Twitter-cannon Obama had during the 2008 election; if he had said "boo" thousands upon thousands would have hammered e-mails and phone-calls to their congress-critter <b>demanding</b> support.<br />Instead, we got silence. Still got it today...james eriksenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04574475125650655538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8449698792503050487.post-45633163896670610842012-09-24T16:30:04.026-04:002012-09-24T16:30:04.026-04:00SF about elections: Heinlein wrote a book about an...SF about elections: Heinlein wrote a book about an election--Double Star. (And in Starship Troopers--the novel, not the ridiculous move--the reason the hero originally joined the military was in order to get a vote, and there was a lot of lecturing about citizenship and the like.)<br /><br />Isabelle's email about winning a chance to have dinner with Obama by contributing to the campaign? He's had a series of these dinners so far, each with a group of small contributors. It's not a bad hook, $3 or $4 for a chance to have dinner with the president.<br /><br />So far as I know, there has been absolutely no move to electronic voting anywhere in the States--that would make voting easier and more convenient. The only organized effort to do anything about voting is the right-wing continuing efforts to pass laws to make it harder to vote (and to defend the laws that pass in the courts), and groups that stand around at polling places challenging minorities, in the hope that they will all go away before they vote Democratic.REReaderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10341315716258163581noreply@blogger.com