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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Who Are The Real Americans Supporting On Election Day?
Among all of Sarah Palin's talk about the pro-American parts of America and pro-American American's, you might be asking yourself, who are the REAL Americans voting for? Well , considering that the real "original" Americans are technically native Americans, and that Native American tribes have donated more than one million dollars to Barrack Obama's campaign which trumps the amount gievn to the campaign of John McCain , I suppose who have your answer. Due to a tax loophole, Indian tribes are allowed to donate large amounts of money, $213,000 in the case of the Seneca nation, and during this election that money has been funneled to Barrack Obama. A honorary member of the Crow Nation, will most likely benefit from the Native American Vote in swing states like New Mexico. This loophole serves as a great example of the ways in which campaign contribution laws are not airtight and can allow interest groups, for example Indian nations that benefit from Casinos, to spend large amounts of money on campaigns.
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Well this is an interesting way to look at the election. I wish it were true. However I suspect that the Native American population is so small that they will have relatively little influence on the outcome of the election. On the other hand, if this election is anything like the 2000 election was in Florida, where literally every vote counts then maybe the "real Americans" will win Obama the election.
Indeed there are many stupid, racist Americans that seem to never have gotten anywhere near high school. Comic
But I think I'm missing your point.
(I feel that US) America(ns) has some pretty dumb loopholes and badly designed legislation - I'm looking at you, electoral college (like such as (the Iraq)). Its a bit weird that these things don't get improved or fixed. I know its probably boring to improve existing things rather than just make new things up, but can't anyone do this? Maybe even a little?
Nice comic Clayton.
About the poorly designed legislation, it isn't that people don't want to change or improve it, the issue is that mainly people have failed to change it. An article from USATODAY in 2004 noted that there already have been more than 700 attempts to change the Electoral College, and if you look at its original plan in the Constitution, it really hasn't improved a whole lot.
Interest groups have always been part of politics, that wont change for a while. While we can always limit or regulate how they operate, their influence wont be completely negated. In very close elections, like the 2000 election and maybe now our 2008 election, interest groups operating in swing states, like the Native American tribes, could have enormous influence on the outcome of the election.
Im not too surprised that many of the "Real Americans" are backing Obama. While there is a stereotype that Native Americans get lots of money from casinos, I bet most of them aren't considered among the richest 5% of the general public.
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