Author Topic: Voting Day, Voting Day!  (Read 6438 times)

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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #25 on: November 04, 2008, 11:54:48 AM »
So how long does it take before we know who won? I've only voted once before, and I don't remember.

According to the press, we already know.

Obama has been elected benevolent lifetime President, and both houses of Congress are now 100% Democratic.
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #26 on: November 04, 2008, 11:56:27 AM »
"Wondered what happened to the kid (16ish) whose dad asked for a Spanish ballot and was told all were in English."

Why the hell would he need a ballot in Spanish?

The names aren't spelled differently... Barako Obamao...  :rolleyes:
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #27 on: November 04, 2008, 12:03:20 PM »
"real conscious"

As opposed to voting while they're unconscious?

As truly opposed to voting your conscience?

'tard...  :laugh:

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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #28 on: November 04, 2008, 12:06:42 PM »
"'tard me?  No, 'tard you!"


Well at least you managed to spell that correctly...
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #29 on: November 04, 2008, 12:09:33 PM »
"'tard me?  No, 'tard you!"


Well at least you managed to spell that correctly...

Hey, just 'cause I can drink first thing in the morning...you shouldn't be jealous.
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #30 on: November 04, 2008, 12:11:45 PM »
"Hey, just 'cause I can drink first thing in the morning...you shouldn't be jealous."

Jealous because you can set a resounding image for your kids and drink your breakfast in the morning?  :laugh:

Hell, I don't drink even when I can. It's been a quite some time since I had something alcoholic to drink. Not really my thing.
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #31 on: November 04, 2008, 12:12:11 PM »
Good for him.  I now respect your brother.  If more people voted their real conscious, the two party system would crumble.


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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #32 on: November 04, 2008, 12:21:43 PM »
Yeah, because most voters really, really want to vote for a third party; which is why the vast majority don't.   :rolleyes:

Edit:  I would REALLY like to believe that there are enough Americans who agree with one of the good third parties.  But there just aren't.  :(
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #33 on: November 04, 2008, 12:38:29 PM »
Been almost a month since I voted.  McCain/Palin and Republican for federal .gov, libertarian for state .gov.
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #34 on: November 04, 2008, 01:04:45 PM »
Yeah, because most voters really, really want to vote for a third party; which is why the vast majority don't.   :rolleyes:

I don't think they want to vote for a third party in and of itself.  I do however think folks would like to vote for someone that wasn't going to screw them over.  For years it's been "vote for who will screw you over the least," not "Vote for who you think would do the best job. "

The democrats and republicans just don't have any reason to change the caliber of candidates they put up there.  They're going to get the party votes and they know it.




Edit:  I would REALLY like to believe that there are enough Americans who agree with one of the good third parties.  But there just aren't.  :(
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #35 on: November 04, 2008, 01:58:45 PM »
Barako Obamao...  :rolleyes:

BAWAAAAGHAHAHAA...

If he wins I need that as a bumper sticker or something.

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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #36 on: November 04, 2008, 02:10:55 PM »
I was in line at 7:00AM when our polls opened. There was a long line; took forty minutes, so it wasn't as bad as it could have been.
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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #37 on: November 04, 2008, 02:11:29 PM »
<expletive deleted>-A right.

<expletive deleted>-A wrong.

Voting your conscience is great as long as your candidate stands a reasonable chance of being elected.  If you vote your conscience knowing full well that your candidate has about as much chance of being elected as Mickey Mouse, then you are throwing away your vote.  More problematic is that you are potentially handing the victory to the least desirable candidate because your "conscience" vote drew a vote away from a candidate that had a chance at winning.

Think Ross Perot.

And before anyone gets all high and mighty, stick it.  Your ego and conscience don't trump my pen and calculator.  I can figure what the probabilities are and know which candidates have a likely chance at winning.  I will NOT throw my vote away on someone I prefer, but that has a only a four or five percent voter following.  With great power (the vote) comes great responsibility (using it wisely).  Throwing away my vote in a fit of righteous indignation is about as responsible as checking a gas tank with a lit match.  And just about as effective.

You may not like admitting to reality but the rest of us know that we're stuck with it.  We know to use our vote as effectively as possible, not waste it just so we can point our noses in the air and proclaim how "pure" our votes were.  Well, guess what Skippy.  Your "conscientious" vote may well have cost the better candidate the election.

*Edit To Add* The only way to get a truly objective vote in a 2+ party system is to have a multiple vote or by-order vote with all candidates equally weighted.  In the multiple vote system there would be one vote with all candidates present.  Take the majority winners (top five of eight, top four of six, top three of four, etc) and vote again.  Keep doing so until you end up with two candidates, then hold the final election.  In the by order vote system you would have a ballot where you list your choices by order, first choice, second, third, etc., even having the ability to NOT rank a person who you vehemently disliked as a candidate.  It would then be a matter of statistical analysis to begin filtering votes in levels - majority of initial candidates, majority of majority, majority if that majority, and so on until you have one person at the top of the pile.

In either case everyone has equal chance of getting "their" candidate in the running and not get into the draw-away vote fiasco like we had with Ross Perot.  The system would be a pain in the butt, but it would be truly fair and even handed.

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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #38 on: November 04, 2008, 02:23:05 PM »
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If you vote your conscience knowing full well that your candidate has about as much chance of being elected as Mickey Mouse, then you are throwing away your vote.

I tried to tell my brother that. He wouldn't listen. He's really a piece of work.

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Your "consciencious" vote may well have cost the better candidate the election.

His idiotic vote didn't in this case. My state is going to be swept up by a democrat like it always is. John McCain never had a chance in hell here.

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Re: Voting Day, Voting Day!
« Reply #39 on: November 04, 2008, 05:33:52 PM »
Voted last Saturday....God bless Texas Early Voting.....no lines, so I can sweet-talk the election judge as long as I want....

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