No More Incumbents Blog

The Democratic Party has officially and publicly lost their mind.  They have decided that Florida and Michigan voters are not worth the time or trouble.  Both states and the Democratic Party have decided to ignore voters and they will now opt for a backroom deal to determine which Democratic candidate is really good for the people of these states.

Florida Cheap SOB’s and Party Big Wigs

Florida initially thought they could run a new Democratic Primary for $1.5 million.  Then the price doubled to $3m, only to jump to $5 million and then $15 million and ultimately they said it would cost $50 million and $50 million was too much money to bring Democracy to Florida.   The State of Florida, the Democratic Party and the Candidates are all apparently too cheap.  They might be willing to drop millions of dollars on ads, and hotels and even some directbuy furniture from a Boca furniture store but empowering the people of Florida to choose their candidate for one of the most important Presidential Elections in 100 year is too expensive.

Apparently Florida is too much of a quagmire and it would be easier to keep funding a push for Democracy in cheaper regions like Iraq as opposed to Florida.

Michigan Stuck in a Catch 22 with Obama Camp and Neither Can make a Decision

In Michigan its not about the money, its about making Barack Obama happy.  The State government and the Democratic Party were unable to come to terms with the Obama campaign.

You know the ones that are supposed to be able to bring people together and make change.  Apparently the Obama style of change is to not show up on time to get their name on the ballot and then refuse to negotiate with the State so that all Michigan voters will lose their voice in the Democratic Primary.  That’s definitely a change, maybe they will solve National voter turnout problems by just throwing out the concept of elections all together in 2012.  Who needs elections when you can just skip them and do a backroom deal?

The State of Michigan would not pass a resolution to do a re-vote (mostly after they learned that Florida could get away without having an election too.  Before that Michigan was on the fast track to have a new primary.) because lawmakers wanted the King of Michigan to bless their legislation before they voted on it and signed it into law.  You may wonder who the King of Michigan is, well its Barack Obama.  Michigan wanted Barack Obama to tell them that their legislation was acceptable before they would put it up for a vote and pass it into law.

The last time I checked, the State of Michigan, its Congress, Governor and Constitution make absolutely no mention of a 4th leg of government known as the King of Michigan in the form of Barack Obama but that did not stop the state from getting stuck in a stalemate with this all powerful new branch of Michigan government.

Biting Democrats in the Rear in November 2008

Apparently Democrats have forgotten that Florida and Michigan too are very important states.  All states are important, but you would think that the Democrats would not want to thumb their nose at the Democratic voters of Florida that delivered the popular vote to Democrats in 2000.  If Democracy is just too hard to accomplish for the Democratic party, maybe they are not the right party to steward the US Constitution for another 4 years.

I read an article the other day about two concepts.  One was the mobile population in China.  China has a mobile population of a quarter of a billion people that do not have permanent homes.  They travel from one job or contract labor job to the next all over the country.  Imagine a population the size of the US constantly moving and in flux.

Then I read a different article talking about a new change in the nursing industry.  Nursing history has changed dramatically over the years, but possibly more dramatically in the last 2 decades than any other time.

Implementing a new system, or even political consultants recommend to work for a political season or as long as a campaign has the money, there is a new niche or profession being filled for travel nurse consultants.  These were consultants their very loosely as they are not consultants but nurses that are working on a contract and hired to travel to work in a different area of the United States.  These are typically not full-time or long-term positions, but they do require a temporary move over long distances.

The concept of travel nursing is not exactly a new one.  Those people think of travel nursing and think of a nursemaid assisting an elderly person on a cruise or an airplane or something like that.  They don’t necessarily think that if they show up to a hospital tomorrow, at the emergency room nurse helping them might actually be temporarily relocated from a different state working on a six or seven month contract.

Healthcare is playing a very large role in the election for president in 2008, and many of the candidates are working on health-care reform concepts that are over a decade old.  They’re fixing the system from the 90s and they’re not looking at the system as it exists today in many regards.  Hillary Clinton is not the only one guilty of this, Brock Obama and John Edwards both have proposals on the table seem to have their roots dated back to the 90s.  Everyone seems to be focused on trying to fix the system has existed then and do so in a way that salt the dilemma that Hillary Clinton ran into the first time.

However the state of healthcare is changed dramatically in that time in bringing a solution to the table today time for 10 years ago is probably not going to solve anything.

Mobile Voting

anyway I digress from a topic just a bit, if you consider the movements of people in China and even in the United States, you might see a future where people are unable to register to vote in the state have been be living in one election comes around.  This is typically handled with absentee ballots, but consider mobile professionals could relocate almost anywhere in register anywhere they choose.  If you live no more than two or three months in any given city or state, you could are you registered to vote in the city or state of your choice.

If the United States mobile population of professionals increases even to a percentage level about China were 25% of our population becomes mobile on as he could see a major shift in the way that politics and elections play out in the United States.  Red and blue states could change color from month to month based on the shift of mobile populations.  Elections could become something akin to a cakewalk or musical chairs, with a last-place mobile professional population stops ends up deciding the election go to sleep.