This map shows each state re-sized in proportion to the relative influence of the individual voters who live there. The numbers indicate the total delegates to the Electoral College from each state, and how many eligible voters a single delegate from each state represents.
HARRIMAN, Tenn. – Ken Mink, a 73-year-old full-time student, scored two points Monday night in Roane State Community College’s 93-42 victory over King College’s junior varsity. Mink entered the game with about 16 minutes left in the second half and attempted one shot in about three minutes. Seven minutes later, he went back in the game, was fouled and made two free throws.
“I found myself on the free-throw line 52 years after my last college game,” Mink said. “I said, ‘Just relax and shoot it like you know how to all day long.’ I just floated the shots in there. I’m in the books now. I can relax a little bit.”
Mink, of Knoxville, last played college basketball 52 years ago at Lees College in Jackson, Ky. After someone soaped the basketball coach’s office, he lost his spot on the team and was expelled. Mink still says he didn’t do it.
Last year, after shooting baskets at a neighbor’s house, he wrote to several area colleges, and Roane State coach Randy Nesbit agreed to give him a chance. Mink has practiced regularly with the team since school began in August.
DES MOINES, Iowa — A Grinnell mother said Sunday that her son’s vote shouldn’t be counted and she intends to challenge his vote.
Brenda Lyddon said her son, Christopher Willis, 26, is developmentally delayed. He lives at the CIRSI group home in Grinnell, an assisted living home for people with developmental disabilities.
Lyddon said he son should never have voted because he has the mind of a 7-year-old.
“He cannot read. He can barely write and so he could never even read a ballot. He couldn’t tell you who’s on there. He couldn’t tell you who’s running — vice president, local, congressional, nothing,” said Lyddon.
Willis told KCCI’s Ryan Luby that he voted for Sen. Barack Obama. When Luby asked who was running for president this year, Willis answered “Barack Obama and John McCain.”
When asked which parties the candidates represented, Willis said “John McCain is with Democrat party.” He couldn’t identify which party Obama represented.
“I have never registered him because I don’t feel he can make his own decision and he can’t and he’s easily influenced,” said Lyddon.