Did the Voters Send a Message?

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Saturday December 04, 2004 · 3:59 AM PST

2004/12/04 · 03:59

Permanent Fatal Errors (Did the Voters Send a Message?) How Voters really choose the candidates. by Louis Menand, 06-DEC-2004, New Yorker, (Postcard From Stanford)

It looks like this piece is not yet available online (New Yorker) perhaps it might be in a a week or two?

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Wednesday November 03, 2004 · 2:15 PM PST

2004/11/03 · 14:15

What are the legal/constitutional issues for a State that wanted to secede from the Union?

How would it work?

Or could it? Is secession theoretically possible, but practically/realistically impossible?

eg. if a state announced it was leaving the Union would it be tantamount to declaring war? (prompting an invasion by Federal troops).

Or could it be done, "legally", and peacefully?

I'm asking, in part to answer the question, of "we have to make peace with w/ the Red Staters; this is why: ..."

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Did the Voters Send a Message?

Secession. No, really. Hear me out on this....