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Today there is a front-page article in the USA Today that says we will spend 5.3 billion on the presidential election. That seems like a lot of money, I know this is the most expensive election ever, as each of the last 10 presdential elections have been. The “perspective” comes in that it is estimated that we will spend 6 billion on Halloween this year. That says to me, if measured by our spending, having a good time on Halloween is four times more important to us than who is elected president. After all we have four Halloweens for every one presidential election.

Am I right; is Halloween four times as important?

I bet you think I’m going to say something like:

1) Obama connects with people on a level that McCanin. Or 2) McCain showed that he has very poor judgment in selecting Palin for his VP. Or 3) The country is ready for a change from the fail economic policies of Bush. Or 4) The country is ready for a change from the fail foreign policy of Bush. Or 5) Obama is inspiring and fills the nation with hope in a time of despair and desolation. Or
6) It’s just the Democrats turn to win. Or
7) Most Americans believe that the earth is older than 6,000 years and would like a government that supports science education. Or Americans are want to have a leader who restores our leadership among nations. Or 9) “Drill, baby drill,” is not an energy policy. It’s a slogan that shows you have no grasp of the difficult, complex, and intricate situation we are in by relying so completely on fossil fuel. Or
10) Old white guys haven’t done such a good job, maybe it’s time to give someone else a chance.

Well those are ten good reasons, and I’m sure that if I tried I could come up with 10 times that in additional reasons, but last Wednesday I found out the true reason. As many of you know I’m a political button collector. The Republican state headquarters for Arkansas is right down the street from my hotel in Little Rock so I decided to drop in to see about getting a “McCain / Palin button.” (Yes, I collect from both parties!) on my way in I noticed an older man driving a hybrid pull in before me. (Two things, think how old this guy must be for me to call him old, and think about the chances of a republican driving a hybrid.)
Anyways, this old guy arrived in the office before me and when I entered the girl behind the reception counter had already gotten the state director from her office to handle this guy’s complaint. (By the way, this state director looks a lot like Tina Fay doing Sarah Palin.) The old guy was showing a McCain / Palin bumper sticker to the director and saying that he’d paid a dollar for it and it was much smaller than the Obama / Biden stickers. The director politely explained that this smaller size was the only size they were getting in and the old guy yelled, “You guys are losing this election for us! I can’t believe this!” He stomped out and tried to slam the door shut behind him. Under her breath I heard the state director say, “I hate people like that.” She quickly turned to me and apologized to me for making that statement. I felt very bad for her, even though she looks like Sarah Palin (truthfully she didn’t have the evil glint of malice and malevolence in her eyes like Palin) so I attempted to make her feel better by saying something like McCain was up by over 10% in Arkansas and encouraged her to forget about it.

Sadly they were out of buttons so I still don’t have a McCain Palin button yet. But I did find out the reason that the Republicans are going to lose.