OK, I was looking at the wrong figures. However, my point still stands: Maine has about 8% the number of voters Ohio has.

As to getting a link to work, you’re on your own. TinyURL seems to work, but anything other than that is a crap shoot.

Wherever you are, stay there because we don’t want you.

Sorry Mustard, you’ll have to cut n’ paste…

“Cuyahoga, Franklin and Hamilton counties — the state’s largest, respectively — saw the most new voters, in that order. Cuyahoga, a heavily Democratic county, saw its voting rolls increase by about 123,000 voters since Jan. 1 to a total of roughly 1.1 million.”

Here’s the full article:

http://www.ohio.com/news/ohiocentric/30627849.html

Yes, the Dems slightly outnumber the Repubs in Maine, but the overall NUMBER is chump change.

The total number of registered voters in the whole state of Maine is about 1/2 the number of NEWLY registered voters in Ohio between Jan and Sep of 2008.

Registered voters as of June 5, 2008
Total: 907,650 registered voters

293,296 Democrats (32 percent)
252,963 Republicans (28 percent)
335,876 Independents (37 percent)
25,515 Green (3 percent)

New registered voters since Jan. 1, 2007

Democrats: 6,517
Green: 595
Independents: 5,32
Republicans: 2,272

I can’t give stats on Vermont, as Vermont has no party registration. But looking at the FACTS, it appears that Democrats out number Republicans in Maine.

>>They’re the party that recruits voters in
>>prisons.

Oh, there you go lyin’, Mike. Everybody knows that only Maine and Vermont allowed incarcerated individuals to vote, and there aren’t enough Dems in Maine or Vermont to make it worth their while.

On the other hand, Repubs are more likely to GO to prison, what with all their corruption, so that would be a more productive line of activity, I would think.

Sarcasm is wasted these days. The comments were meant as a criticism of the judicial system (such as it is) in the Great State Of Texas.

This state enforces capital punishment. I have no opinion on whether or not it’s OK to execute a man who is obviously totally insane.

And, just so you know, I’m a Texan.

I’d be more than happy to let this guy out. When can you pick him up?

If he hurts anybody due to your carelessness I think you ought to be thrown to starving bear.

Just so we understand each other.

He may be guilty for reasons of insanity but he isn’t innocent and he is and will be threat to the safety of eveybody around him including himself for as long as he lives.

If you are nuts enough to want him you are welcome to him but if you take him you owe blood dept if he hurts somebody.

That’s the way I see it.

Or was that MASH and Cpl. Klinger? Trivia: The movie MASH and Catch 22 were released the same year.

RBG

About the Insanity Plea.
The whole “Not guilty by reason of insanity” goes along the philosophical line that if you’re incapable of understanding that you committed a crime, then you cannot be tried for that crime. (I wish I could use this argument at every speed trap I encounter. “Why officer, I was unaware that this 15 feet of roadway was only 25 MPH while the rest is 55.” “Sorry”, says officer WriteEmUp, “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”.)

For me, the result in this case, insane or not, would be the same. Lock him up in a 7′X10′ cell for the rest of his life. This guy can never be let back on the street again.