Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for November 06, 2012

America has lost consciousness over Obama’s joke of a Presidency.

Mitt Romney would make cayman islands usa State,

How about we let them vote and then they are required to pay taxes. Might help a bit with the debt. Hey, that sounds like a good idea, I should run for president! (except I’m about twelve years too young)

Elephants burying their dead on Election Day brings to mind some provocative comments but I won’t go there.

I live in a solid-color state, so my vote won’t change anything anyway. We need to do away with the electoral collage.

Syncope can also be induced by fear. That explains opossums

a pile of twigs and branches …and trunks!

I was in Hawaii when they voted for Statehood. There were a lot of financial reasons Not to become a State.

Too bad Biden didn’t lose consciousness during the debate….

There is no requirement in the U.S. Consitution that citizens be permitted to vote directly for president.

Nah… Dems vote early, Republicans vote when they get home from work.

I meant that the U.S. Constitution does not require states to allow citizens to vote for president. The states could, for example, have the legislature vote for the electors for president. Of course, this would not happen with current state laws and constitutions.

I just wish all states divided their electors according to congressional districts. After all, the number of electors a state has are apportioned partly by the number of representatives they can send to Congress. If those representatives represent their own parts of the state, so should the corresponding presidential electors, rather than being winner-take-all. If all but the electors corresponding to the senators were elected regionally, it would change the dynamics of presidential elections entirely and be more representative of the makeup of each state.

There are reports that in a non-binding referendum, Puerto Ricans voted for statehood.