How to Win the Election
| Published on 5 Sep 2008 at 8:40 pm.
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Most of you know that The West Wing is one of my all time favourite television shows. Richard Schiff played Toby Ziegler, the White House Communications Director. In this article on The Huffington Post, Schiff explores one way to make sure the Democrats take back the country.
I will sneak out early on election day, vote, get a tub of roses and a vat of champagne and hold my wife hostage in love and seduction until she realizes that the booths have closed and her voting rights expired. Perhaps we can do the same in western Pennsylvania and Ohio and Indiana - we’ll have hoedowns and square-dances and prayer meetings and whiskey and make the whole lot of them happily drunk and content enough for inaction.
The article is a thoughtful and considered piece about bridging the differences in political ideals and beliefs, starting in his own home with his wife.