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Politics : Is Secession Doable? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TimF who wrote (965)	11/9/2004 10:21:15 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1968

Your logic may be faulty or is in fact faulty if you believe that simply because someone voted Democrat in any state that they might desire secession. The idea of secession is far removed from the minds of most people. Only an extreme and small element within a group of Democrat voters may even entertain the thought of secession on a theoretical basis. If put to a vote, you would have lost all counties. That being if the vote were for session. One of the greater problems with the loudest of the extremists is that they believe thier echo to be voices of others. The Hollywood elite that threatens to leave the country have done this before. They threaten. Their heads are so swollen that they believe their fans would rise up to slay dragons for them. The dragons are of course in their own minds. They are drama queens. The collection or comparison of red and blue states as referenced by Presidential vote, does not reflect how they map would be colored for a vote on secession. To believe otherwise is an exercise in fantasy.

To: TimF who wrote (965)	11/10/2004 6:36:51 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1968

re: I agree land doesn't vote, people vote. But people and countries need land. It doesn't make much sense to have a country that has a few scattered population centers in a sea of foreign territory. Most countries aren't city states, and I can't think of any country in history that has consisted of widely separated cities without the land in between. OK, make it an academic discussion of secession. Your logic is still faulty. Assuming a vote on secession, states would vote, not counties or cities. Of course you know that. re: Kerry won mostly the cities and some of the suburbs in the Blue states and to a somewhat lesser extent the Red States as well. Bush won the rural areas over most of the country, a lot of the suburbs in the red states, and some suburbs in the Blue states and an occasional urban area here or there in the Red states. Yea, but like I said Kerry won the blue states. What's your point??? The most interesting part of the numbers is that if just 75K voters in Ohio had voted for Kerry instead of Bush, Kerry would have won the electoral college while Bush won the popular vote 51% to 48%. How would the Republicans have felt about that? The electoral collage should be scrapped. John