Democracy is about Choices

Thomas Dewey Truman is a sociopath liar!

The Miscellany News goes to press on Tuesday nights, which prevents its editors from making any definite comments on this year’s Presidential election. But no newspaper dated November 5, 2004 should be without some mention of who won (or appears to have won) the election. To this end— and in the spirit of the choices our vibrant democratic government provides us— we’ve prepared a Mad-Libs style fill-in-the-blank for readers to fill out with their own notes, once election results come in.

This year _______________ and ________________
(NAME) (NAME)

competed against each other for the office

of President of the ________________ States.
(ADJECTIVE)

They discussed a wide range of ________________ ,
(NOUN)

including ________________ , ________________ , and abortion.
(NOUN) (IRAQ)

The nation was extremely ________________ .
(ADJECTIVE)

On Tues- ________________ , November 2, the people went to
(NOUN FOR EARTH’S 24-HOUR REVOLUTIONS)

the ________________ to cast their ________________ . Every vote
(NOUN) (PLURAL NOUN)

________________ , particularly those in
(PAST TENSE VERB)

Ohio, Florida, and Pennsylvania. Those were

counted ________________ because in the last election
(ADVERB)

the result was very ________________ . Like he did in 2000,
(ADJECTIVE)

Chief Justice William ______________quist and his friends
(FIRST THREE LETTERS OF “RENQUIST”)

on the Supreme ________________ wound up effectively
(NOUN)

deciding that ________________ won. That’s how
(PROPER NAME)

________________ work in a democratic ________________
(PLURAL NOUN) (REPUBLIC)

like the United States of America.