Like everyone else, I have been fascinated by this election, and am
eagerly
looking for an endgame slightly less prolonged than a court battle.
Suddenly,
last night, the answer occurred to me in a flash of inspiration.
Since the
election is so close that, statistically, it is a draw (for example,
even the
popular vote is so close that it is entirely possible that the call of
FL for
Gore at 8:15 EST cost Bush the popular vote - no one knows), it seems
to me
that it's best to step outside of the difficult and immensely tedious
business
of counting, recounting, re-recounting, recounting by hand, recounting
while
the election commission is drunk, recounting while the election
commission is
sober, and so on. I mean, is that really any way to settle an
election? No,
of course it isn't. Furthermore, opinion polls show that the public
wants this
whole thing settled by this weekend. Al Gore went to Harvard, and
George Bush went
to Yale. That makes the whole thing very simple. Every person at
both schools
knows that the most important world event of the year is the
Harvard-Yale football
game. We might as well let it decide something trivial as well. The
Game just
happens to be occurring this weekend. So I propose that the two
candidates just
decide to let the Harvard-Yale Game settle this election. The man
from the winning
school gets the Presidency. I think that's fair - doesn't everyone
else? :-)
********************Gautam "Ulysses" Mukunda**********************
* Harvard College Class of '01 *He either fears his fate too much*
* www.fas.harvard.edu/~mukunda * Or his deserts are small, *
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *Who dares not put it to the touch*
* "Freedom is not Free" * To win or lose it all. *
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