View Full Version : Don't Forget to Vote!
Bruce
11-04-2008, 03:57 PM
If you haven't
done so already, please go vote!
belgareth
11-04-2008, 04:58 PM
Did that as soon as the polls
opened, 11 hours ago.
All the rest of you, I hope you have done so as well, please!
The best part is now all those
annoying TV ads, phone calls, and door flyers WILL GO AWAY after today...
Hmmm... an idea. If there was some way
to tie in "early voting" to having all that go away immediately after you voted... We'd probably have 100% turnout
the first day early voting was offered...
But then again I always like to wait till the official day just in
case I change my mind... if I've managed to make my mind up by then that is. The poll workers get annoyed at me
with all that coin flipping I do in the voting booth...
belgareth
11-04-2008, 08:42 PM
This year I used a new policy.
Anybody I got a robo-call from was voted against. And, as always, anything that increased taxes, debt or government
power got voted against.
Bruce
11-05-2008, 08:52 AM
We have 100% mail-in/drop-off
balloting here in Oregon now. I always wait until the very last second, which is always a hoot as a crowd gathers
around the drop-off box minutes before the shut it down.
So, who was it said Obama was "unelectable" anyway?
:-)
koolking1
11-05-2008, 09:03 AM
Joe the Dog Catcher could have beat McCain, lol
I'll say this about the Bush
administration. Our county had a 73.64% voter turnout. I think people were annoyed...
Bruce
11-05-2008, 12:46 PM
I'll say this
about the Bush administration. Our county had a 73.64% voter turnout. I think people were
annoyed...
That is pretty amazing. There were some counties in Oregon bragging better than 80%.
Nationwide (64%) it was the best turnout since 1908! What is it normally? Around 50%?
idesign
11-05-2008, 04:10 PM
So, who
was it said Obama was "unelectable" anyway? :-)
<blush> :wave:
But you can't blame a guy for
having his own brand of "Hope".
<blush>
:wave:
But you can't blame a guy for having his own brand of "Hope".
But you have to consider that
just about every election in this country comes down to a choice between the "lesser of the evils." To you, Obama
may have seen "unelectable," but when paired against someone even more unelectable... (or, in this case, represents
a party that faced a very major uphill battle).
McCain IMO is indeed probably better qualified to be Presidient,
but at least for me, the philosophy of the Republican party and it's attempts to dismantle the 1st Ammendment
(especially concerning freedom from/of religion) forced me to go for a Democratic Party Executive branch this time
around (primary concern is Supreme Court nominations). But I also supported our Republican Senators and
Representatives as a check and balance.
We've had good Presidents and disasterous Presidents, but so far we are
still here...
I remember comments that the world was about to end when JFK was elected... (We'll be ruled by
the Pope!)
Didn't happen.
Could be worse.
PS: We had something like 24 cadididates for President
nationwide, including in some states a "none of the above" option. Not all candidates made it on all the state's
ballots.
Pity poor Bradford Lyttle of the US Pacifist Party who got a whopping 98 votes *nationwide.*
http://news.aol.com/elections/2008/president?flv=1&icid=templatized_template_test.M
idesign
11-06-2008, 03:44 PM
But you have
to consider that just about every election in this country comes down to a choice between the "lesser of the evils."
To you, Obama may have seen "unelectable," but when paired against someone even more unelectable... (or, in this
case, represents a party that faced a very major uphill battle).
McCain IMO is indeed probably better qualified
to be Presidient, but at least for me, the philosophy of the Republican party and it's attempts to dismantle the
1st Ammendment (especially concerning freedom from/of religion) forced me to go for a Democratic Party Executive
branch this time around (primary concern is Supreme Court nominations). But I also supported our Republican Senators
and Representatives as a check and balance.
We've had good Presidents and disasterous Presidents, but so far we
are still here...
I remember comments that the world was about to end when JFK was elected... (We'll be ruled
by the Pope!)
Didn't happen.
Could be worse.
Very good points Rbt, and I'll both agree and
disagree.
I suppose we can count on America's strength and resiliency to see us through a bad President, maybe
even a very bad one.
OTOH Obama is pretty questionable in terms of character, experience and ideology. We'll
see how "moderate" his self-claims turn out to be. I'm very suspicious. One of my fears is that he'll actually
DO some of the things he's said he'll do. His tax plan, for example, would be ruinous.
Pity poor Bradford Lyttle of the US Pacifist Party who got a whopping 98 votes *nationwide.*
98 votes?!? Even Belgareth got more than that!
OTOH Obama is
pretty questionable in terms of character, experience and ideology. We'll see how "moderate" his self-claims turn
out to be. I'm very suspicious. One of my fears is that he'll actually DO some of the things he's said he'll do.
His tax plan, for example, would be ruinous.
I can't disagree there. I too feel he's not quite up to
snuff. Fortunately no one man can do it alone, either in terms of running the country or ruining the country. It
will be a combination of the rest of the staff in the Executive Branch, as well as getting through the Legislative
Branch as well. Again, fortunately, there were enough Republican hold-ons and victories to keep a reign on things
going through Congress. Plus even then programs need to be implimented. It could take years before anything actually
happens. Witness how well things are going in Louisiana with the Katrina clean up.
As usual, I just make sure I
cover my ass as well as I can DESPITE Washington DC. So far so good. Just need to stay adaptable (and have places to
hide).
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