So I Lied! #3 – September 4, 1984 - The Whining Kent Pigs

This is being thrown at you by me, James Wall, who resides at1805 University Avenue, #5, Madison, WI 53705. This is a newapartment for me and is alot nicer than the one I forced allthose who attended Mad-Con II to stay in. My ceiling doesn'tleak when it rains, we have hot water, the roof doesn't sag atfunny angles, and the refrigerator doesn't attack you wheneveryou open the door. I wonder if this is known as moving up inthe world. I do climb one fewer set of stairs after all.GAME OPENING: I've got two signed up for the one game that Iplan on running here. Gamefee is 3$ with a 2$ NMR fee that isrefundable with the proper gaming etiquette. I'll send outresults separately to the players and they'll be a part of thesub-zine as well. The one thing that I will promise the playersis that I'll get the results out on time.Political Meanderings: Last issue took me not a little bit bysurprise. I did not know of Marc's plans to rebuttal my columnin an editorial before you did and thus I feel that a couple offollow-up thoughts are necessary to explain my problems with herchoice. I am a political science Graduate student whose area ofconcentration is electoral politics and the reasons behind whypeople vote as they do. I am also arealist/Conservative/Republican in that order. My last columnwas the political aspect of me, this is the partisan half of me.Mrs. Ferraro was chosen solely for the happenstance of her sex,not her qualifications. Mondale was desparate for someone tospice up the ticket, his answer was Ferraro. The gamble on hispart was that Ferraro would enable him to concentrate on thesouth and west while still maintaining himself in the Midwestand the Ecc. The misleading thing about the public opinionpolls is that they are, for the most part, done on the nationallevel and as a result the data is always likely to come out muchcloser than the final results. The Electoral College ensuresthat a state by state head-to-head match-up is necessary toaccurately forecast who's doing well. When one looks at theelection on an electoral vote analysis the gap becomes quitelarge. The only states that I'd give to Mondale, at the moment,are Mass, R.I., N.Y., Minn., Md., D.C., W.Va. with a total of 95electoral votes. Reagan, on the other hand, I'd give 27 stateswith 291 electoral votes. 270 are needed win. Mondale couldsweep every single swing state and still lose. Ferraro didnothing to alleviate this trend and THAT is why I view herchoice as being so short-sighted a choice. I've yet to decideon whether or not the financial shenanigans are a big thing ornot. The one thing I do know is that the charges against herare of a more serious nature than those lodged aganst Ed Meeseand look how long his nomination has been held up.