Word: lets
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...nuttiest presidential election in a century closed out with plenty of suggestions (especially from the Democrats, who found Al Gore's popular-vote win to be an excellent moral pedestal). Ditch the electoral college (thank you, Hillary). Nationalize the ballot. And for gosh sakes, this is the Information Age - let's get the technology by which we read the public will out of the age of disco...
...Constitutionally, elections really are a state affair. Do we really want to mess with that? Leave the Electoral College in place, as a mild equalizer and a needed firewall, and let the system renew itself the way it always has: out of naked political fear...
...George wrote the song with Johnny Cash in mind, but Cash wouldn't touch it. Finally, Stonewall Jackson heard it and persuaded George to let him have it. It became Stonewall's first hit in 1959, and George cut it soon after for an album of other people's hits...
...let's stick to dates and deadlines. But also remember that if you're a few days late - even 36 of them - it's the ultimate result that matters, not when it was arrived...
...will be a delicate choice. First, because it'll be the window into the issue that Bush says is his first love. Next, because hard-core conservatives don't even want an Education Department. And then there's the prayer-in-schools thing. And the v-word. Bush may let this one simmer awhile...