Why?
Because the Senate needs Franken. What’s a circus without a clown?
The professor assumes Democratic voters are too stupid to fill a out a ballot correctly. Are you arguing?
This is nothing more than the same old bullshit from Florida in 2000. People did not vote for Al Franken - specifically, this paper states that blacks did not vote for Al Franken. How they know that is not something I understand because I’m pretty damn sure there isn’t a checkbox for “race” or “ethnicity” on the ballot.
The paper is simply making the case that because a particular voter voted for Obama and did not vote for the Senate race, their votes should be cast for Franken. Never mind that Franken’s a flaming idiot and Coleman’s a RINO (the most logical reason for a no vote). No, they want to mysteriously determine the voter’s intention from a nondescript ballot.
:Why?”
Because Democrats are retarded and can’t fill out a ballot?
According to the article, the higher the education of the voter, the more likely they were to vote for Coleman. The less educated voters were more likely to vote for the funny guy.
What is interesting, the educated voters were most likely to not only vote for president, but also for the other offices down the ticket. However the less educated voters were most likely to just vote for the top of the ticket and leave everything else blank. Now the big problem comes up when they look at each actual ballot. Since most educated voters were used to reading (and able to read) directions telling them to fill in the bubble) they did just that.
However the less educated ones may have bubbled the presidential race in properly and then made an “X” over the other candidates down the line. (possibly in their hurry to get things over with) Since the bubble is hardly filled, the machine would read that as not being filled in, and presto, an undervote. Now when we look at the ballot and see the “X” over the “trying hard to be funny” guy’s name an nothing elsewhere, we might have to assume that voter was wanting to vote for that candidate
Since it was most likely that the educated voter actually filled in their senate selection properly (they voted “R”) and the less educated apparently didn’t (they voted “D”) it is highly likely that we may find more random (possibly) marks that the machine didn’t pick up that were actually votes for that haha guy ( so we better count them that way since we wouldn’t want to disenfranchise those that only know how to mark an “X” as their signature...
It is interesting to note that the more educated the voter is, the more likely they are to care about races on down the line to the local politics...
Sheesh.... We’re screwed if that is how it turns out...
I wonder if any of the gun clingers had trouble filling in circles because their fingers were still in a curl.. Or maybe they marked an x over Sarah’s name “I want her...” Alas we may never know