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27 May, 4 tweets, 1 min read
why aren't other states copying Ohio's Vax-a-Million lottery?
As an aside, one reason Democrats are in such miserable shape in Ohio is that Ohio Republicans, unlike Republicans in certain other states, actually try hard to be popular with a clear majority of the electorate.
Okay it seems that Oregon, Maryland, Arkansas and New York are doing variations on the Ohio thing.
A special "vaccine lottery" (as in Ohio, Maryland and Oregon) seems more compelling to me than giving people regular lottery tickets for being vaccinated (New York and Arkansas) but that's just a guess.

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Give this man the Nobel prize for literature already
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