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  • Collision of Worlds

    Well…My my….Worlds collide.

    Today, the DLCC made a post about the Seventeenth Amendment, referencing this Arkansas Senate candidate who said:

    “I’m not sure that the 17th amendment was a smart thing to do… We need to go back and get like the founding fathers suggested.”

    Now, I am a little disappointed in my DLCC friends.  They claimed that the US Senate would have 62 Democrats without number 17.  Now, I have yet to thoroughly run the numbers (c’mon Minnesoata), but I believe Democrats would only have 55 seats in the Senate without the 17th Amendment.  The DLCC Communications team (looking at you Matthew) really should have referenced The Southern Seventeenth Amendment Swing .  If they wanted numbers, simply seek the older version posted here.

    Now, I believe that the DLCC was off because they did not consider staggered terms and classes of Senators.  2008 was an interesting year.  In the indirectly elected Senate, Democrats gained seats in Iowa, Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, and New Hampshire.  But the Republicans took Tennessee, Oklahoma, Georgia, and Kentucky.

    And who said that the Seventeenth Amendment was irrelevant!

  • Just too true…

    Also a new draft if anyone is interested.

    I have so far found two typos in the above, but it is what I presented this week.

  • Games on the Beach

    Nash Equilibrium isn’t quite the same as volleyball….

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  • Another amusing professor GChat

    After I finished my comp in May, I had this conversation with a professor.  Last night, I realized I forgot my Anthony Downs An Economic Theory of Democracy at home, so my away message was: “Doh, forgot downs at home” which prompted this conversation, which amused me.

    Eric: Don’t leave home without him.me: Fortunately another desk had a copy.Eric: lucky you. my wife and I had a fight about downs in grad school.me: That must of been a fun dateEric: she was using him to block the sound on our dial up modem by standing him on end, and I had to tell here not to do that.I mean, any other book would be fine.But Downs?me: She should have definitely used The American Voter RevisitedEric: or the new american voter.me: What book did you end up using?Eric: Maybe Stuck in Traffic.as a compromise.But I don’t remember.me: compromise is good

    Okay.  It was amusing to me who is the middle of finals.  The bar may be a little low.

  • Steve writing note…

    …I have a very strong tendancy to start a sentence with subordinate clauses (at least I think that is what they are).

    English major out there…Tell me what the the beginning clause is called.

    As the sheep slept, Lucy had nothing to count.

    This is by far my most interesting post.