And isn't this -- is this not something that the legislature tried to do in setting these time limits when the -- when the votes should be in and set up some reasonable, or what you contest is not reasonable, but some procedure, and isn't that what they've done?
Alexandra Olins Winooski, Vt., Feb. 15, 2008 To the Editor: Thomas E. Mann and Norman J. Ornstein (Op-Ed, Feb. 15), writing about the superdelegates to the Democratic convention, posit that the superdelegates are more likely than other delegates to transcend emotions to find a reasonable outcome to the Democratic contest, including whether to seat delegates from Michigan and Florida.
They addressed small literate elites at a time when the means of reproduction were relatively few and easily controlled, when it was reasonable to contend that in a contest between truth and falsehood held among reasonable men, lies would be exposed and driven from the public sphere.
"In my opinion, it should be whether the contest between bat and ball is reasonable and fair," he said.
These are questions that can benefit from a detail-oriented approach — going state by state through the remaining contests and coming up with reasonable estimates of how many delegates Mr. Romney is likely to win in each one.
Opponents of Keystone XL have been right to contest construction of the pipeline without reasonable assurance that the plan is environmentally acceptable.
And yet, whenever it looked as though the favourites would win at a reasonable canter, the Dutch struck back to keep the contest on a knife edge.
That means they must be given some forum in which to contest their imprisonment, and there must be reasonable rules and some individualized proof for the detentions to be upheld.
The court could also object to his view that the threshold test to challenge election results is a "reasonable probability" that the outcome would change if the contest proceeds.
Disclaimer: If you're in Seattle, or within a reasonable commute from Seattle, you should not enter this contest.
