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People don't care about boring elections?

"Ballot measures don't have the sex appeal that an election for governor would," said Sherry Smith, president of the League of Women Voters for Berkeley, Albany and Emeryville. "I don't have a whole lot of consonance that we're going to get anything but a small voter turnout."

I like how the meaning of "sexy" has changed to be unrelated to sex. What kind of consonance would a large voter turnout have? I've never been good with English, but isn't consonance... you know... something else entirely? A good joke is just waiting to be told by someone with a better grasp of literary devices than mine. (Okay, I looked it up, and I didn't know about the harmony/accord definition. Still, I don't think that definition fits particularly well into Smith's sentence, either.)

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 11/08/2005 12:09:00 PM #
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Hopefully, "consonance" is some sort of horrible DC typo. (Maybe she said "confidence"?)

Or maybe she did say "consonance", because she's some sort of electoral oracle, predicting election turnout based on the absence of vowels.

# posted by  Anonymous : 9:09 PM, November 08, 2005

 

Blaming the DC is usually a safe bet.

# posted by  Beetle Aurora Drake : 9:28 PM, November 08, 2005

 

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