The Problem With Ohio and Wyoming

~ Laura

I’m way busy this morning. I’m reading all about Mr. Clean for the SC. And I’ve got to take my son to the doctor because he busted up his face at the ice rink field trip at camp yesterday, and today, it’s swollen up like a cherry tomato.

Have you been reading the Sarah Vowell column in the Times? She’s filling in for Maureen Dowd. Sarah is the author of .Assassination Vacation and funny as hell.

In today’s column, she is going on about the electoral college and the winner take all system. She goes to town on Ohio…

I would rather not spend the next Election Day the way I spent the last one: wondering just how much to hate Ohio. My vote was written off because I live in the perpetually sewn-up state of New York. But because the citizens of that battleground state could not make up their gosh darn minds, their votes actually counted. They chose the current president of the United States.

and Wyoming…

Let me repeat that: a single vote. So the half-million residents of Wyoming would have had the same amount of say in electing the president as the 34 million citizens of California.

What is the most pressing social issue in 92-percent-white Wyoming? Whether people should be able to ride snowmobiles in Yellowstone.

(I will go on the record as being against snowmobiles in Yellowstone – not because I’m an environmentalist but because I am not “fun.”)

And here’s one more good article from the Times. Lisa Belkin writes a piece that combines several of my interests: modern parenting, work practices, and technology.

Is it 11:13? Bloody hell. Must run.

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2 thoughts on “The Problem With Ohio and Wyoming”

  1. Seems odd how exercised Ms. Vowell got about a constitutional provision that hasn’t been used since 1824. At which time, Wyoming was not a state….
    Laura, hope your son is feeling better.

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  2. Thanks. It wasn’t too bad, but those mouth injuries bleed so much. Then they heal funny. All whity and pussy.
    Yeah, Vowell isn’t a political genius. But she’s funny. The political weight of Wyoming v. California is a bigger deal in the composition of the Senate. That is a serious debate.

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