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Nick Hoppe's columns appeared for many years every Tuesday on the back page of the Datebook section in the San Francisco Chronicle. He retired from the weekly grind in 2019 and now posts columns online only when the spirit moves him, which is every two or three weeks. Or sometimes longer. His father, former San Francisco Chronicle and nationally syndicated columnist Arthur Hoppe, wrote for a living. Fortunately,  Nick has other means of support. His topics include business columns relating to the common absurdities of owning a business (he owns restaurants and retail stores throughout  California), general lifestyle columns, and travel columns.
But no matter what he is writing about, rest assured that he is not taking it too seriously.

A SYSTEM THAT
DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT
(Posted October 30, 2024)
   Relax, Trumpers. This is not a hit piece on the guy who might be our next President. That's old news. This is a hit piece on the system that may or may not make that happen.
   Here we stand on the most significant Presidential election of our lifetimes, and my vote means nothing. I happen to vote in California, and thanks to the Electoral College I might as well vote for Mickey Mouse. Kamala Harris will win California's electoral votes in a landslide. Yawn.
   Only the "Battleground States" of Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada are in play. The rest of us, barring a monumental upset, are irrelevant.... (Continue)

 

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