The Patron Saint of Impossible Causes

Did you guys know there is a Patron Saint of Impossible Causes named Jude Thaddeus? And his diocese is right here in the Tampa Bay area.

I had to read this post about three times before I finally understood it. So I'll try to explain it as best I can:

The short explanation is that a Democrat running for Supreme Court in Ohio named Connally got 5347 more votes than Kerry in Butler County. And that doesn't make very much sense because a lot of people vote for President and few people vote for Court Justices.

In Butler county, which is very Republican, Kerry got 54,185 (34%) votes and Bush got 106,735 (66%). Connally got 59,532 (47.2%) votes and her opponent got 66,625 (52.8%) votes. Connally was expected to lose by a lot more because she didn't spend very much money, and Butler county is like WAY Republican. And a lot of the other counties in Ohio had similar results. The smart statistician people think there is something fishy going on. And I do too.

Polular Mechanics wrote a nice article called Hack the Vote that explains how bad people can mess up elections by changing the results and stuff. It's kind of long, so you don't have to read the whole thing if you don't want to.

So, back to Saint Jude Thaddeus.... I think even if we aren't Catholic, we should pray to the Patron Saint of Impossible Causes, and ask him to overturn the Ohio results.