ooooh you fibber !I never saw you .
The judges don’t have parties listed on the ballot. (At least, not on the ballot I used for early voting.) I didn’t vote for judges because of that. My husband was in the same boat–we didn’t remember who was who and didn’t have a list.
True, but after the election the results show which parties really own the judges and there was a fair amount of publicity prior to the election regarding the fact that the pollls indicated they we could (as we in fact did) get a completely Republican supreme court.
I’m sure a lot of people go to the polls without knowing which party owns which judge, but it is not difficult information for anyone to discover if they choose.
In this past election, it was pretty important to know which candidate belonged to which party. At least, for me. I was dismayed to see the Republicans win all the spots on the court. It shows, in my opinion, just how few people take the time to learn about who they’re voting for. Exception would be the high-profile Governor, etc.
They don’t pay much attention at the gubernatorial level, either. (Or, in our case, goobernatorial.) Strickland is simply Taft in a Democrat suit. The time for people to have paid attention to the governor’s race was back during the primaries when the Republicans let a well-funded lunatic and the Democrats let a positionless glad-hander take the top party spots.
I must say that, even in victory, it frustrates me that debates that should be determined by facts and reason are determined by popularity contests.
One thing I always ask when the subject of ID comes up is, in what context with regards to the rest of natural history? Where does ID fit in with the 4.6 billion-year-old Earth, plate tectonics, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, the ice age, etc?
It doesn’t, nor does it have to. I don’t know the percentage of IDers who are YECs, but I wouldn’t be surprised to discover it to be significant. If one is a YEC, nothing you posited matters and no explanation is needed as those things simply didn’t happen. I sense your incredulity. Join the club.
But he did make the endorsement and he was promptly praised for it by the evangelical right. He may not be pushing hard for the change but he certainly did give a morale boost to those who want it in the public schools. Really, this has been the best thing to happen to the ID movement in the past few years.
That movement now looks like it was the high-water mark for ID. A few months later the Dover, PA creationists were wiped out at the polls. Then the ruling came down that ID could not be taught as science in the schools. More electoral reverses have followed. The movement will continue to be sure, but I think it’s in a terminal downward spiral. Still, I can’t help but fret that it will be changed around a little bit in the future, given a new name and be thrust upon society anew.