Courtesy of The Onion:
Featured Term:
debate - A contest to see which candidate can answer the fewest questions.
absentee ballot - A form of voting that does not involve the inconvenience of having to get up off the couch and walk to a high school gymnasium.
ballot - An object recording a voter's decision that is frequently counted toward an election's outcome.
caucus - The process by which Americans are quadrennially reminded of Iowa's existence.
change - Can be found
1) In the air/wind.
2) At hand.
3) Inside us all.
convention - The best four-day-long chance a politically active, overweight Kia salesman from Tulsa has to nail one of them blond Fox anchors.
corruption - The most effective and efficient way to produce results in government.
delegate - A demented, often screaming individual who experiences intense arousal at the sight of a vertically printed placard bearing his or her state's name.
democracy - A moderately representative plutocracy.
Diebold voting machine - A sophisticated, computerized balloting terminal that electronically changes your vote into a vote for Mitt Romney.
election worker - A male or female at least 70 years of age.
electoral college - A process by which the number of states in the Union is narrowed down to the most important seven or eight.
experience - A quantitative score any politician may increase by slaying foes or solving riddles.
hope - An intangible object within every American that is destroyed every four years in November.
likability - The degree to which each candidate is able to hide the extent to which he or she is full of shit.
lobbyist - A better-paid legislator.
MoveOn.org - A company offering routine tests of your e-mail's spam filter.
platform - A list of the subjects that candidates are willing to discuss.
A raised structure, almost entirely covered by flags, upon which candidates are placed.
political consultants - Individuals who are very savvy politically, but don't have enough hair to run for office themselves.
political philosophy, conservative - A great way to meet chicks at Princeton University. U-S-A; e.g., U-S-A, U-S-A(!).
political philosophy, liberal - An ideology steeped in a proud tradition of ineffectual whining.
pollster - A person who willingly communicates with the elderly.
Rock The Vote - Something that is, apparently, still happening.
voter apathy - The reason most American politicians are able to achieve and maintain office.
3 comments:
"voter apathy - The reason most American politicians are able to achieve and maintain office."
That was a dead ringer.
debate - A contest to see which candidate can answer the fewest questions.
Does any candidate actually REALLY answer any of the questions?
Your definitions are great ! I wish they'd publish them in the newspaper :)
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