Life on Mars....and the Election!

In article ,
Rand Simberg wrote:
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 15:09:18 -0400, in a place far, far away,
"Jonathan" made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

No, anything that takes people's minds off the campaign helps Kerry.
He does much better in the polls when people forget about him. His
smartest campaign strategy would be to just lay low until November,
since "an unnamed Democrat" still outpolls him (and Bush).


Moore?

No, I said an "unnamed Democrat." As soon as you name one, support
drops precipitously.

ObOscureNovelByADeadMan: A.L. Levine, selected more or less by
accident because when the Dems were hunting around for a replacement
for the replacement (who turned out to be an axe-murderer. Who knew?)
of their prefered candidate (who refused to run again) A.L. sent out
a list that was formatted thusly:

Name
Name
Name
Name
Name

A.L. Levine.

and the pollsters thought Levine was one of the names on the
poll, not a signature. The fact that he polled better than any of the
party warhorses, even in the South, took some time to be appreciated.

I'd be a bit surprised if anyone here but me and perhaps Henry has
read the book in question.
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"The keywords for tonight are Caution and Flammable."
Elvis, _Bubba Ho Tep_

Jim Logajan wrote:

Personally, I haven't decided whether to vote for Kang, Kodos, or John
Carter.

Vote for Muffy Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson

Paul
GAE, RIP

"Paul F. Dietz" wrote:
Jim Logajan wrote:

Personally, I haven't decided whether to vote for Kang, Kodos, or John
Carter.

Vote for Muffy Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordsperson

A very buff barbarian. Hmmm.

Jim Logajan wrote:

"Jonathan" wrote:
Would the announcement of life on Mars help in the
reelection of President Bush?

Depends - are the Martians Democrats or Republicans? And are there enough
Martian votes to swing the elction? According to H. G. Wells they're into
pre-emptive strikes, so maybe they're Republicans? But the Martians were
right that Earth did have WMD of the most insidious kind: biological.

Personally, I haven't decided whether to vote for Kang, Kodos, or John
Carter.

Burroughs insists the Martians are Democrats: they run around with
naked women.
Just a thoat.
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"Jim Logajan" wrote in message
...
"Jonathan" wrote:
Would the announcement of life on Mars help in the
reelection of President Bush?

Depends - are the Martians Democrats or Republicans? And are there enough
Martian votes to swing the elction? According to H. G. Wells they're into
pre-emptive strikes, so maybe they're Republicans? But the Martians were
right that Earth did have WMD of the most insidious kind: biological.

Personally, I haven't decided whether to vote for Kang, Kodos, or John
Carter.

I think we can all be sure that the lovely Dejah Thoris would make a much
better first lady than Laura Bush or Theresa Heinz-Kerry.