I keep toying with the idea that what's really needed is for the UK to become the 51st state (more realistically, England & Wales to be 51st, Scotland to be 52nd). Since there are 60 million of us we would have to be given twice as many electoral votes as California, thus meaning that it would be more or less impossible for any candidate to win who didn't promise nationalised healthcare.
dd -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Devine, James Sent: 05 October 2004 22:00 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Canadian polls on U.S. election Canadians should be allowed to vote in US elections... as should Mexicans (and everyone else affected by the President's decisions). under the thumb of Buzz Windrip, Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine > -----Original Message----- > From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Kenneth > Campbell > Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 1:59 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Canadian polls on U.S. election > > > Joel writes: > > >This past summer, Kerry beat Bush in a national Canadian poll, > >60-22. Bush's highest share was in that old Tory redoubt of > >Atlantic Canada, where his share rose to 37%. > > More of concern is not the traditional Tory redoubt in the Atlantic > provs but Alberta's old Social Credit base and fundamentalist > Methodists > now imbued with money from its oil reserves. They will ally with > neo-Cons from the U.S. > > Ken. >
