Democratic party “strategist,” Paul Begala, commented in a cable-TV seance last night that John McCain received only 72% of the GOP vote in Kentucky, and “he had no opposition.” Math was never a favorite subject of mine in school, but I learned enough about it to be able to reach the following conclusion: if 100 people vote in an election, and 72 of those people vote for candidate A, the remaining 28 must have voted for someone else. I was in school before the onset of “new math,” so I may still be clinging to antiquated notions!
The returns from Kentucky showed that there were five candidates – other than McCain – who received 23% of Republican votes, with an additional 5% opting for “uncommitted.” Ron Paul received 7% of the votes but, as Begala and other media hypsters are well aware, Ron must continue to be shoved down the “memory hole,” lest Americans get the wrong idea, namely, that it is possible to vote for a candidate who has not been fully certified by the corporate-state owners of the political system. That the electorate – in a supposedly democratic system – should have their own preferences for policies and candidates that differ from those of the establishment, is the essence of “terrorism” to a system that has long been accustomed to controlling and exploiting people for its narrow purposes.
10:30 am on May 21, 2008
