Posted by
The Old Whig on Wednesday, January 30, 2008 9:42:41 AM
After the electoral debacle of 2000, the nation joked about the ability of Florida voters to operate voting machines. Some voters in Florida were quoted as saying that they had intended to vote for one guy, and ended up pushing the button for someone else.
Then, the Supreme Court had to be called upon to put a stop to the vote manipulation being driven by the Florida State Supreme Court changing the rules in midstream. Talk about Judicial Activism. This was vote fraud writ large.
We breathed a sigh of collective relief when there were no major issues that came out of Florida during the election of 2004. We thought that maybe 2000 was just an anomaly, the expected bugs that appear when people are trying to learn a new system.
Now, I am no longer sure that it was just a passing thing. After hearing reports this morning that voters in Florida overwhelmingly voted for McCain because of the perception that he will be good for the economy, I am left scratching my head. McCain good for the economy? How did they come to that conclusion? McCain has almost made it a matter of pride that that he is not strong economically. Instead, he points to his economic advisers as his solution to that shortcoming.
He has consistently pointed out that he would be strong where the military is concerned. He would be the man that would find Osama bin Laden, destroy al Qaeda, and bring the War on Terror to a successful conclusion.
And yet, Floridians en masse agreed that John McCain's military strength would also make him the man to fix the economy. Which leaves me wondering how they imagine he will accomplish the task. McCain has made it very clear that his positions on the military lean to the right, but his positions on domestic issues lean very far to the left. If McCain wins the Presidency we can expect more government intervention in the Market, not less.
Is that really what Floridians want? 36% of them apparently do...unless of course they just got confused at the ballot again.