A Day Late and A Half Million Votes Short

Its kind of late getting to post something today. I sat down to write something before I left for my bowling tonight, but the lovely Mrs. Sneed got off work a bit early, so we went out to get a bite before bowling. I talked to the guys at bowling tonight and 5 said that they would vote for me next time around. By my count, that is 10 solid votes. I may take another run at mine inspector next time around. I'm no political novice. Years ago I was overwhelmingly elected precinct committeeman. Of course I was unopposed. I hope to one day make a mockery of the electoral process by sneaking in to some office, by just hanging around and then to spend my term doing absolutely nothing. It would be interesting to see if anyone would notice. I think this would have worked in my recent run for mine inspector had I planned it just a bit better. The winner running unopposed got about 578,000 votes. In the other statewide races, all of which were contested about 1,100,000 votes were cast, meaning 450,000 voters looked at the mine inspector race and didn't vote, presumably because they weren't willing to vote for the only name on the ballot. Had I run for real, I presume that most of the under-vote would have gone to me. That would leave the totals at 578,000 to 450,000. Had there been two names on the ballot some voters would have picked the second name rather than the first. If only 10% of the winner's voters switched to me, I could have won. Drat. Merle. Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky Tag: Daily Life Personal Finance Humor