Counting Votes

Florida is again advising Presidential Candidates of the Democratic Party, not to campaign in certain areas, especially dominated by Republican oriented CubanExiles. The 2000 election between Bush and Gore, made the comedians in our country quip, ‘Floridians do not know how to count’. While in India, they said, ‘American are poor in math and science, and do not know how to count the votes’. But the Britishcommented, ‘Now we know, that American never count votes, they just assume who won and announce accordingly. The first time they had to count, it was worse than a third world pseudo-democratic state’.And the situation in Ohio in 2004, was magnificently handled by John Kerry resulting in ‘no need to count’ as the British observed. If we put to heart, the real truth of thisHollywood-democracy and electioneering, things will look much simpler, and much ofthe heated discussions and activism can be avoided. In the United States of America, the big Corporations get together, and pick up someone from the street, put him (not her) in the Whitehouse, and announce, ‘Here is your President’, said someone. This seems so simple and smart.It would be so nice and transparent, if the CEOs of these Corporations assembled at Whitehouse or in the Halls of Congress and discussed the matter openly, with TV and Press available to give live/running commentary, and announced who our President would be, beginning in 2008 for four years. There is no need to have these meetings secretly, as the tradition has been lately. But the Super (really Supreme) Bowl of campaign, propaganda, debates, the TV ads, and the final election, will be missed by the Public and the Pundits, both, so much.