Comments on: When In Doubt, Ask the Internet … http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/ Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Peter G. Klein http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7087 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:43:05 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7087 You non-voters out there better be careful. Look what happened to me in 2004:

http://web.missouri.edu/~kleinp/misc/novote.html

]]> By: Kate Litvak http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7086 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:16:55 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7086 Josh, the point was to club you into abstaining from voting, not into abstaining from blog humor.

Instead of wasting an hour on voting, we all should take up small consulting gigs and donate the value of that hour to a worthy cause. Let’s call it “the don’t-vote scholarship.”

When I grow up and become rich and famous, I will fund a series of college scholarships restricted to people who promise not to participate in any campus organization of any sort.

]]> By: Josh http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7085 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:59:21 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7085 Kate: I promise I’m aware of how futile my prospects for breaking a tie in an election are. It will not be my last failed attempt at blog humor. I’m trying to come up with something witty to say about alien abductions but its late and I’m drawing a blank…

Geoff: Kucinich and Gravel both making the top half of the your “real” candidates makes me very suspicious of this algorithm …

]]> By: Kate Litvak http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7084 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 05:10:47 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7084 The chance that you will be a tie-breaker in a national election is immeasurably lower than the chance of being struck by lightening while traveling to the voting place. In fact, the chance of being a tie-breaker is about as good as the chance of being abducted by aliens while you are punching a hole in your ballot.

]]> By: Geoffrey Manne http://truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7083 Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:01:54 +0000 http://www.truthonthemarket.com/2007/11/06/when-in-doubt-ask-the-internet/#comment-7083 Apparently I favor 3 non-candidates before getting to my real favorite, Ron Paul. Which is about right: I would easily take None of the Above over any of the candidates running. I’m just not sure that I agree with the rest of the list. Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich beat out . . . anyone? That can’t be right.

1. Theoretical Ideal Candidate (100 %)
2. Kent McManigal (campaign suspended) (77 %)
3. Chuck Hagel (not running) (68 %)
4. Ron Paul (62 %)
5. Newt Gingrich (says he will not run) (58 %)
6. Christopher Dodd (55 %)
7. Sam Brownback (withdrawn) (55 %)
8. Stephen Colbert (campaign ended) (54 %)
9. John McCain (51 %)
10. Alan Keyes (51 %)
11. Rudolph Giuliani (51 %)
12. Mitt Romney (51 %)
13. Mike Gravel (50 %)
14. Bill Richardson (48 %)
15. Michael Bloomberg (says he will not run) (48 %)
16. Dennis Kucinich (47 %)
17. Fred Thompson (47 %)
18. Barack Obama (47 %)
19. Alan Augustson (campaign suspended) (44 %)
20. Hillary Clinton (43 %)
21. Al Gore (not announced) (43 %)
22. Joseph Biden (43 %)
23. Tom Tancredo (43 %)
24. Duncan Hunter (42 %)
25. Wesley Clark (not running, endorsed Clinton) (40 %)
26. John Edwards (37 %)
27. Mike Huckabee (37 %)
28. Jim Gilmore (withdrawn) (36 %)
29. Tommy Thompson (withdrawn, endorsed Giuliani) (36 %)
30. Elaine Brown (22 %)

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