Start The Scramble

Desperately Seeking Someone

So, after the recent announcement from my former governor not to run for office, I decided to look into the editorials based on our upcoming election to see what the republicans have been up to. Now, unlike most democrats, I don’t really see the republicans as bad people. To me their just money hungry gangsters, only instead of being on the streets they do their business in our government wearing nicely pressed suits. In this editorial New York Times columnist Charles Blow discusses that scrambling going on for the republicans to put forth a worthy candidate for the 2012 election. After Palin and Christie announced they were not going to run, the background characters of the campaign had to move into the limelight. In the article, the matter of “rigged elections” comes up. The idea of republicans passing voting restrictions sickens me, because I wouldn’t have even known about this problem had I not read this article. Imagine how many low-income families without Internet or TV would never even hear of these restrictions, thus compromising the American vote. Additionally, I have a big enough problem with the electoral votes and all that mumbo jumbo. Since I was in elementary school I never understood the concept and now I hear of 63% of the votes going to states that’ve cut back their voting rights. In my vision of the American democracy, I see the election run like a high school prom king vote. There are 2 names on a ballot, you check next to the name that you want to win, and he with the most votes wins. Why is there a need for all this confusion in between? Sorry, I digress, but the main idea of these articles states the challenge the republicans will have even after they tried setting themselves up for a win. In the article, Blow talks about the republicans as if they were a scrambling bunch of key stone cops trying to find someone worth electing, one who could compete with the current public opinion of Obama. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t, they still have a year, but the choices look grim so far; Best of luck to them and their scramble.