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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 9, 2019 4:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Cc:</b> John Clark <johnkclark@gmail.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] China will soon spend more money on scientific research, than the United States!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050'>On Mon, Sep 9, 2019 at 4:58 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050'>><span class=gmaildefault>></span>the best way to remove the Republican party from office is NOT to vote for some idiotic third party candidate who doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning even one electoral vote. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#500050'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span class=gmaildefault><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>> </span></span><i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>…Unless you live in a free state,</span></i><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>And how do you know if you're living in a "free state" or not? By reading the polls.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Not the polls, but rather the betting. The polls were a mess last time. The closest pollster was Rasmussen, but that isn’t a poll, for it combines polling with the probability that a poll respondent will vote.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Most states we know for sure are free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Texas, California and New York are three of the freest of states. If the election is even close in any of those three states (where one’s vote would matter) then the general election is such a landslide that one’s vote wouldn’t matter. Those three we can clearly see are free as a bird. If ones vote matters there, it doesn’t matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Plenty of states are that way, but those three account for nearly a quarter of the voters in the US.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>Some of the smaller states are free, but they don’t really matter anyway: Utah, Idaho, New Hampshire, Vermont, those kinds of places, far from the interface they are.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>California is a great free state. We already know who is going to get all those EC votes (rather we know who isn’t (but we don’t yet know who will (Biden? Warren? Gabbard? Bernie? Clinton? Who do you think?)) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>There are enough voters in California the libertarians could make a really strong showing and have their numbers span the spread at the national level this next time around.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>