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“So, open your mouth, lad! For every voice counts!”

Vote trading and the popular vote
by Kos
Sat Oct 30th, 2004 at 05:04:57 GMT

There are two battles being fought Tuesday. The battle for the electoral vote — which will decide the next president, and the battle for the popular vote — which will confer legitimacy on the victor.

Now I know Bush didn’t win the popular vote in 2000. We all know that. And we all know he governed as though he had a 400-EV-mandate. But fact is, a president-elect Kerry who loses the popular vote will not get the same benefit of the doubt as Bush did. The media environment is still too hostile, and the hypocrits on the Right will wield it as a tool.

If there’s one thing Kerry has done, it’s deny the Right much ammunition to use against him. We need to deny the Right the chance to delegitimize a Kerry presidency because of the popular vote. Let’s make this a clean victory all around.

That means voting for Kerry if you’re either in the Bluest of states, or the Redest of states. Every vote will count. None of this “swapping with Nader voters” stuff. So while my vote in California won’t help elect Kerry, it can help legitimize his presidency.

The world needs to hear that the majority of Americans have rejected the Bush presidency. None of us can be complacent, no matter where we live.

GOTV.

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Muffy Bolding is a mother/writer/actor/knitter/feminist/withered debutante who likes the smell of asparagus pee, and remains obsessed with the bathroom hygiene of her three children -- despite the fact that they are 23, 19, and 16. She is blissfully married to a cute Jewish boy who looks like Willie Wonka, but remains tragically in love with the dead poet, Ted Hughes. She has the mouth of a Teamster, and her patron saint is Rocco (pestilence relief.) Ms. Bolding lives in Southern California, where she enjoys typing words, making movies, and plucking the rings from the fingers of the dead. She was the co-creator and Editor-in-Chief of the award winning satire zine, Fresno Lampoon, and in between writing screenplays, carnival barking, and savagely threatening her trio of darling larvae with a wooden spoon, she currently publishes the zine, "Withered Debutante." More of her work can also be found in the anthology, "Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts", the compilation zine, "Mamaphiles III: Coming Home", as well as in The Cortland Review and hipmama.com. She is currently writing and producing for film and television, and working on a book of essays entitled, "Inside A Chinese Dragon." She has slept around, but not nearly as much as she would have liked.

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