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20041106 Saturday November 06, 2004

What are all of these stupid people doing in my country? There were some severe system problems last week that pretty much knocked this site out of commission, I'm hoping it's all in the past now.

In the meantime, the Big Lie that waging war on Iraq has some relationship to 9/11 and terrorism apparently has been successfully Jedi mind-tricked into the American psyche and we're destined to have four more years of high crimes and misdemeanors. It just makes me wonder what is up with the rest of the country. Plenty of folks abroad are, evidently, equally perplexed by this election, as we see in a recent Daily Mail cover.

If you're single, there are some Canadians offering asylum. I'm thinking of packing up the family and moving to New Zealand or something.
Just to keep track of where I don't want to be, I'm reckoning with the map:

electoral college strong kerry Strong Kerry (146)
electoral college weak kerry Weak Kerry (37)
electoral college barely kerry Barely Kerry (69)
electoral college tied Exactly tied (0)
electoral college barely bush Barely Bush (30)
electoral college weak bush Weak Bush (66)
electoral college strong bush Strong Bush (183)
Needed to win: 270
 
Do you live in a state of stupity?
Apparently 59,054,087 of you do.

  State Avg. IQ 2004
1 Connecticut 113 Kerry
2 Massachusetts 111 Kerry
3 New Jersey 111 Kerry
4 New York 109 Kerry
5 Rhode Island 107 Kerry
6 Hawaii 106 Kerry
7 Maryland 105 Kerry
8 New Hampshire 105 Kerry
9 Illinois 104 Kerry
10 Delaware 103 Kerry
11 Minnesota 102 Kerry
12 Vermont 102 Kerry
13 Washington 102 Kerry
14 California 101 Kerry
15 Pennsylvania 101 Kerry
16 Maine 100 Kerry
17 Virginia 100 Bush
18 Wisconsin 100 Kerry
19 Colorado 99 Bush
20 Iowa 99 Bush
21 Michigan 99 Kerry
22 Nevada 99 Bush
23 Ohio 99 Bush
24 Oregon 99 Kerry
25 Alaska 98 Bush
26 Florida 98 Bush
27 Missouri 98 Bush
28 Kansas 96 Bush
29 Nebraska 95 Bush
30 Arizona 94 Bush
30 Arizona 94 Bush
31 Indiana 94 Bush
32 Tennessee 94 Bush
33 North Carolina 93 Bush
34 West Virginia 93 Bush
35 Arkansas 92 Bush
36 Georgia 92 Bush
37 Kentucky 92 Bush
38 New Mexico 92 Bush
39 North Dakota 92 Bush
40 Texas 92 Bush
41 Alabama 90 Bush
42 Louisiana 90 Bush
43 Montana 90 Bush
44 Oklahoma 90 Bush
45 South Dakota 90 Bush
46 South Carolina 89 Bush
47 Wyoming 89 Bush
48 Idaho 87 Bush
49 Utah 87 Bush
50 Mississippi 85 Bush
There you have it: the closer you are to the coasts or Lake Michigan, the more likely you're not a dumbass.
I was never particularly enamored with John Kerry, in fact I would've been happy with a Wesley Clark-Howard Dean ticket. Nonetheless, I don't think Kerry would have been so driven to a war that he would have disregarded counter-indicative intelligence and the advice of allies to wage one.
Another idea that no longer seems entirely ridiculous is to secede from union. Seriously, who wants to be part of this country when California's vote is under represented in the electoral college and yet our youth are being sent to Fallujah to wage war against a culture and people most people here know little of. We're the country's vegetable stand and it's cannon fodder. I don't think so. Suddenly, Ecotopia sounds like a reasonable proposition.
Independence for California!

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