ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

So on my way to work yesterday I was thinking about the primaries and how I didn’t have any desire left to vote in them since my favorite zombie leprechaun Rudy Giuliani is out of the race. And I was just thinking how if I went, to either party’s function, it would only be to vote for someone who was not Mike Huckabee or Hillary Clinton. And since I didn’t really care enough to go and support someone just because they are not this other person that I don’t like, I would probably wind up sitting this one out.

And as I sat there waiting for the bus to show up, I thought, you know what would make our political system a lot more interesting? Apart from trashing the two-party system, I mean. Getting to vote against candidates if you don’t want to vote for any of them. You wouldn’t get to double dip and do both. I think it would be an interesting statistical exercise. Then each candidate’s votes would be broken out in terms of how many they received for and against. I guess you’d want to net their votes in order to determine actual election results. But it would be interesting to see how elections would be affected if people were allowed to forfeit choosing who they wanted in order to choose specifically who they did not want. How many people are voting now for someone they feel lukewarm about, who would vote against somebody they really dislike? How many people aren’t voting at all for lack of any candidates they like, but would turn out to the polls if they knew they could vote against their least favorite candidate?

Anyway, I haven’t really developed this idea in my head at all, not like it matters. But I think it sounds like fun anyway. I would take great pleasure in voting against Mike Huckabee, who hates my freedom.