Friday, January 30, 2009

Getting what you voted for

With the President ordering the closing of Guantanamo Bay, the question arises: what to do with the prisoners there?

Of course, there are some on the left that think they need to be released. This, despite ongoing reports of former detainees returning to terrorism.

However, let's assume that the administration recognizes that the bad guys are bad guys and need to be kept locked up somewhere.

Some states are saying they don't want them. And I agree. I don't want my state housing them.

But, then again, my state voted for McCain.

I have a solution that ought to make everybody happy: Spread the Guantanamo Bay prisoners around among the states that voted for Obama. I mean, after all, he campaigned on the promise to close Gitmo. So it's not like they didn't know he'd do it, right?

Well, it was okay with them if he did. So much so that they voted him into office.

I'm for having those responsible for putting Obama into office having to put up with the consequences.

Here's the plan: There are, by one count, 245 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. 28 states and the District of Columbia awarded 365 Electoral Votes to Obama.

Spread them out accordingly.

For each Electoral Vote for Obama, a state gets just over 2/3 (0.671) of a prisoner. Here's the breakdown:



































































































































































































































































































































StateElectoral VotesGuantanamo Bay
prisoners
California5537
Colorado96
Connecticut75
Delaware32
D.C.32
Florida2718
Hawaii43
Illinois2114
Indiana117
Iowa75
Maine43
Maryland107
Massachusetts128
Michigan1711
Minnesota107
Nebraska10
Nevada53
New Hampshire43
New Jersey1510
New Mexico53
New York3121
North Carolina1510
Ohio2013
Oregon75
Pennsylvania2114
Rhode Island43
Vermont32
Virginia139
Washington117
Wisconsin107
365245


This could solve all kinds of problems.

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