Who Owns The Air?

Wyoming is a Red bastion! They have only voted thrice for a Democratic candidate throughout their history, and the last time that happened was in the 60s. So this year was no different. Every media predicted the election to be fierce one… neither candidate could be considered front runner… so their fate was to be determined by the swinging states. North-East and West was all blue, South and Mid-West was all red… and much depended on the swinging states mainly California (?), Florida (?), Ohio and Colorado… which had huge chunk of electoral college votes… most of them turned blue and President Obama was re-elected with 303 votes to Mitt Romney’s 206! ps: Final vote count Obama 332, Romney no change! [11/10/12]

 

The Next Day

Professor Alexander is a self confessed Republican. So her class began with the election results… she was upset but still had her smile intact as usual. She was teaching ‘Rules and Gains from Trade’ in her Economics class… “in Wyoming and Montana if the oil or gas is discovered under someone’s land, that would be a public property, i.e. the land belongs to the owner but the resources underneath to the state or public…” so she asked:

“Who owns the air?”

Greg: "O-B-A-M-A!"

The whole class erupted in laughter, including Professor Alexander! The way it came up, the tone, the mood... second to none. 

Post script: Now don;t ask me why I don;t complain going to school at 8 in the morning all this year!