Every Vote Counts, Except Not Really… And Especially Not Yours
Hey, are you still congratulating yourself for having spent eight hours in line on Election Day to cast your vote for Barack Obama and spread Hope, Change and a new era of post-racial politics across this great land of ours?
Well, give it up, you narcissistic egomaniacal narcissist! Your measly little vote didn't accomplish shit.
Don't believe me? Please allow David Runciman of the London Review of Books to explain it in the most boring terms possible…
Going to vote is not a costless exercise, since it takes time and effort that could be spent doing other things. You might not consider this much of an outlay, but if you reflect that the benefit you can expect to derive is precisely zero, since your contribution is literally worthless, then it starts to look like a serious waste of your precious resources. One possible way round this problem is to argue that although no election has ever been decided by a single vote, that doesn't mean it couldn't happen…
The assumption is that the tighter an election, the nearer one gets to the holy grail of a contest that could be decided by your personal contribution; in fact, the tighter the election, the less likely it is that any one person’s vote is going to settle it…
[T]hink about what happened in Florida in 2000. Does anyone know what the true count was in that election? Perhaps there really was a single vote in it. But the enduring image of squint-eyed counters peering forlornly at hanging chads is enough to confirm that if there was a single vote in it, no one was ever going to find it. When an election is as tight as the presidential contest in 2000, the individual votes that might decide it disappear in a miasma of political confrontation and confusion.
Please don't tell David Plouffe that I wrote this post.
He'll take my thumbs! My thumbs!
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Dennis, admit it, you think Republican Chick who just told you off is blond & hot. You're mesmerized by how much she hates you.
@ TT Boy – Seriously, right?! What is the deal with David and all his "ultra uber lame" posts? Someone needs to do something about that.
@ obamagramma – Actually, you're right. I am kind of assuming she's hot. I always associate women being mean to me with them being physically attractive. It's something I'm dealing with in therapy these days.
@ Cube – Yeah, right. Like if she ever lets me talk to her again, I'm gonna try to send her your way. Keep dreaming.
Dennis: Could you please five-finger discount her prop for me at least? Ever since that post I've been counting kazoos jumping over fences to get to sleep. It's so not cool to have tantalized a loyal reader whom you know has total low-brow tastes. You did the same thing with the picture of that butt you took at the DNC. But seriously, I have a thing for girls who dig Buster Keaton and walk funny for a reason.
Terrible argument. Lacks basic logic. Does Runciman also suggest not recycling, not turning off lights, not throwing trash in a trash bin, not peeing in public pools, not participating in boycotts, not attending parties with large invite lists, etc?
Moronic attempt to justify selfishness.
Here is a picture of the author of this piece, Please submit your your captions HERE:
http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/images/authors/a1044.jpg
Unfortunately "TWAT" & "HUH, SOAP?" Have been taken so you need to try and be more political and stuff.
Then I will choose the worst captions and then try and embaress you when you complain they suck, ok. GOOD LUCK!!
Ew, tokando. He looks like a guy I went to college with. He was a twat too.
Actually, no offense to Dennis or whoever tokando is referring to. But that really does look like a guy I knew in college.
It's okay, Ashley. All us twats look alike.
Ashley are you sure it wasnt dennis?? (LOL at Twat too).
Heres another pic of him, so you can be sure!
http://blog.indecision2008.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/ddc.jpg