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From: cwa@ihuxm.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: 1984 Presidential Bowl
Message-ID: <820@ihuxm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Jan-84 21:16:58 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 23 21:16:58 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Jan-84 06:45:30 EST
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL
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Since I messed up on my Super Toilet Bowl prediction, I would like to
make up for it now.  No, I didn't get the team wrong.  Everyone knew
the Raiders would win, some people just did not want to admit it. 
I blew it because I didn't want to admit it would be a massacre.

I am going to be first, however, to predict a victory in the presidential
election - before we even know who Ronnie is going to beat.  Better yet,
I predict that the opponent will be Wally Mondale and that it will be
another lopsided score in favor of the team from California.

But that's not what I wanted to talk about.  Why don't we have a popular
election?  You know, the kind where the one with the most votes wins.
Not only would that make more sense, it would prevent ABC news from pre-
dicting a winner hours before the last U.S. polls close.  How, you say?
California has many more votes than the total number of votes that usually 
separate the winner and runner-up.  Simple, isn't it.

Not only would there be a little more suspense, but the candidates could
care equally about everyone's vote, and not worry about which state each
voter is from.

Carl W. Amport		Naperville, IL.