Early Voting for President is Unconstitutional

Article II Section 1:

The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.

It’s pretty straightforward. The “chusing the Electors” is what you are doing when you vote for president and vice-president of the United States.

The constitution grants Congress the explicit power to determine the time of the election for president and vice-president and requires it must be the same throughout the United States. So early voting fails on two counts:

1. States are usurping the authority of Congress to determine the day of the election by holding early voting.

2. Early voting days are not uniformed throughout the United States.

In off-year elections states have pretty much to power to hold elections as they see fit. The constitution is silent on elections for every other office. However, as long as president and vice-president is on ballot, there can only be one election day throughout the United States as designated by Congress. 

The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost

Sister Wives' appeal polygamy ruling to US Supreme Court
SALT LAKE CITY — A polygamous family from TV's "Sister Wives" filed a request Monday for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case for legalizing polygamy.

Kody Brown and his four wives want the high court to review an appeal court's decision that upheld a unique provision of Utah's polygamy law that bans cohabitation with other partners even if the man is legally married to just one woman.

The ruling overturned a previous legal victory for the Browns in which a lower court ruled the law violated polygamists' right to privacy and religious freedom.

The appeals court decided in April that the Browns can't sue because they weren't charged under the Utah law. It didn't consider the constitutional issues.

Like most polygamous families, Brown is legally married to one wife and "spiritually married" to the others.

This was the inevitable result of the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling making gay marriage a constitutional/

It will be interesting of the court has the courage to take up the case.

Logic and common sense dictates that since the state has no interest in defining marriage in the case of gay couples it also has no interest in banning polygamous marriage and the right to privacy trumps right of the state to regulate marriage. 

That would be consistent with the Obergefell ruling. 

If they rule against the Sister Wives family it will be interesting to see what tortious logic they use to justify the ban on polygamous marriage.  

As a famous preacher once said; "The chickens have come to roost". 

Clinton Contemptuously Calls Voters "Deplorable"

Clinton: Half of Trump supporters are in 'basket of deplorables'

New York (CNN)Hillary Clinton told an audience of donors Friday night that half of Donald Trump's supporters fall into "the basket of deplorables," meaning people who are racist, sexist, homophobic or xenophobic.

This has to be a major mistake. She wasn't winning the tradition blue collar voter that used the make up the backbone of the Democrat party and now she has gone on and alienated the rest of these voters.

Pundits are comparing to Romney's 47 percent remark. The only diffrence was that Romney's remarks were secretly recorded at a private gathering while Clinton was at a public fundraiser and knew full well her remarks were being recorded.

You may see whites voting for Trump at levels no Republican has ever seen before.

And it's not because they necessarily like Trump. 

They despise Hillary Clinton and it's a vote against her. 

What happens if Trump and Clinton Tie in the Electoral Collage

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The above scenario is a distinct possibility. So what would happen if Clinton and Trump tied.  

Well according to the constitution.

 if no person have such majority, then from the persons having the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as President, the House of Representatives shall choose immediately, by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President, the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary to a choice.

A couple of things to note.

The house can't go rogue it must choose between Clinton, Trump, or the third party candidate with the highest number of votes on the ballot.  It's not very likely that Gary Johnson or Jill Stein will win even one electoral vote so the list is basically paired down to Clinton and Trump. 

Even though the House votes for president, each state only gets one vote. In all electoral vote scenarios the Republicans will control a majority of the states.

It is unlikely the Republicans would go rogue and vote for Clinton. 

So a tie would be a Trump win. 

Former Louisiana Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu Praises Donald Trump

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Apparently the Louisiana Flood Victims disagree with their governor. 

Should Kevin Cash Be Fired?

Yeah, I know that outside the long suffering Rays fans in the I4 corridor and Southwest Florida nobody would give a damn. But I like to post an occasional article that is outside the field of politics and besides politics nothing starts an argument like baseball. 

Considers these facts:

• The Rays rank fifth in the major leagues in home runs yet close to the bottom in runs scored. 

• Evan Longoria is having a career year, yet was not an all-star because the Rays are ranked dead last in the AL East with a record (as of this writing) of 46-69.

• The vaunted star pitching rotation disappeared this year with a team ERA of 4.19.

What has led to this awful performance? In a word, cash. Kevin Cash to be exact. 

The first factoid indicates that Cash can’t put together a lineup. He has the requisite number of power hitters to average 5 runs a game.

The second factoid indicates a tremendous waste of Longoria’s talents and is related to the first factoid.  Cash can’t seem to put a batter in front of Longoria who can a) get on base and/or b) stop hitting into double plays.  Too often Longoria is the lead-off batter or is up with the bases empty so any extra-base hit he gets is of limited value. 

Cash also eschews the bunt, hit and run, and/or any small-ball plays the get runners on base. Electing instead to play conservative station to station baseball.  It’s almost like he’s the anti-Madden. This is not a particularly good idea when you play half your game in cavernous (and I mean literally cavernous) Tropicana Field.

Finally, that brings us to the third factoid, Cash cannot handle a pitching staff.  His decisions have been arbitrary and illogical. His philosophy seems to be to get the strike-out every time instead of pitching to contact. (Again at the Trop Fly Balls go to die.) This elevates a starter’s pitch count, which in turn shortens his outing, which in turn stresses the bullpen, which in turn – well you know the rest. 

This one can’t be blamed on the front office folks. Cash got the tools he needed to field a comparative team, and like last year he failed miserably. Cash could be forgiven for his rookie year as a manager but he hasn’t learned a damn thing.
With September call ups just around the corner, the rest of the Rays season is about the future. Do we really want Kevin Cash handling that future? I vote no. 

How Crying Wolf made Trump Possible

How Paul Krugman Made Donald Trump Possible

His convention was called “one of the worst ever.” Chris Matthews deemed him “dangerous” and “scary,” Ellen DeGeneres said “If you’re a woman, you should be very, very scared.” His opponent ran an ad against him portraying him as uniquely dangerous for women. “I’ve never felt this way before, but it’s a scary time to be a woman,” said a woman in the ad.

He was frequently called a “bully,” “anti-immigrant,” “racist,” “stupid,” and “unfit” to be president.

I’m referring, obviously, to the terrifying Mitt Romney.

This article chronicles the numerous times the liberal media has demonized Republican candidates and makes the point that outside of the liberal echo chamber (represent aptly here by Roger Amick), nobody really is paying attention to them about Trump

In fact they are more concern about Clinton's record of incompetence and deception at the state department simply because, coming from the FBI director, it rings true. 

The media of course will double their effort to demonize Trump. However, I have a feeling that the more they do, the more they are going to be tuned out by the public. 

On the other hand, negative stories about Hillary Clinton will tend to be magnified simply because the will be at best underreported and at worst covered up by the media.