Comments on: Votes Should Matter http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/06/27/votes-should-matter/ Reality-based political commentary Sat, 02 May 2026 07:43:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: John M from Ct. http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/06/27/votes-should-matter/#comment-203402 John M from Ct. Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:57:46 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23743#comment-203402 This is the first essay on the NPV that has made me rethink my support of it. Thanks for such a refreshing piece! This is the first essay on the NPV that has made me rethink my support of it. Thanks for such a refreshing piece!

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/06/27/votes-should-matter/#comment-203401 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:33:09 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23743#comment-203401 I'm down for the night ... I'm down for the night ...

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/06/27/votes-should-matter/#comment-203400 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:32:45 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23743#comment-203400 Have you ever seen an electoral collage!? :-) Have you ever seen an electoral collage!? :-)

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/06/27/votes-should-matter/#comment-203399 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:26:26 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23743#comment-203399 And, by 'electoral' I obviously don't mean electoral collage. Probably should have written election instead of electoral so as not to invite more insults. Heh. And, by 'electoral' I obviously don't mean electoral collage. Probably should have written election instead of electoral so as not to invite more insults. Heh.

]]> By: Elizabeth Miller http://www.chrisweigant.com/2023/06/27/votes-should-matter/#comment-203398 Elizabeth Miller Wed, 28 Jun 2023 00:23:33 +0000 http://www.chrisweigant.com/?p=23743#comment-203398 <i>Only one Republican has actually won a national popular vote in a presidential race since 1988 -- George W. Bush, in 2004 (as he was riding high as a wartime president).</i> That's pretty amazing since by that time the disaster that the invasion of Iraq had obviously become should have precluded such a Republican electoral victory, one might have thought. Of course, the plan that Biden was working on at the time to promote a political settlement in Iraq - which is what precluded him from running for president that election cycle, by the way - was just beginning to take shape and he certainly wasn't doing a fantastic job of explaining what it was all about. Some things never change. :( Only one Republican has actually won a national popular vote in a presidential race since 1988 -- George W. Bush, in 2004 (as he was riding high as a wartime president).

That's pretty amazing since by that time the disaster that the invasion of Iraq had obviously become should have precluded such a Republican electoral victory, one might have thought.

Of course, the plan that Biden was working on at the time to promote a political settlement in Iraq - which is what precluded him from running for president that election cycle, by the way - was just beginning to take shape and he certainly wasn't doing a fantastic job of explaining what it was all about. Some things never change. :(

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