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Boodleheimer

ALL PARTISAN POLITICS ASIDE,

to those of you abroad: i hope you did your civic duty and voted absentee. if not, you are dead to me.

to those of you in the USA: i hope you do your civic duty and "rock" the vote. if not, you are dead to me.

and yes, i wrote "'rock' the vote". i want you to imagine me making little air quotation marks.

NOW BACK TO PARTISAN POLITICS: here's hoping we get a few more blue states!

otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

Boodleheimer · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 11:36 pm Post subject:

at least you're voting.

SuperFly · Joined: 09 Jul 2003 Location: In the doghouse

Polls open at 600am, I still have two hours and I only have to drive about a mile. Razz

SPINOZA · Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Location: $eoul

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Your votes don't count anyway unless there's a tie, and it has to come closer than it did in 2000.

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

Bibbitybop · Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Location: Seoul

Just to be a devil's advocate and state a commonly heard response:

What if none of the candidates represent me? What if neither Repub or Dem represents, and worse, no third party candidate represents me? By not voting, thousands and thousands of people are using their right to NOT participate in the elections. They show us that the two party system is failing us. Many of these people ARE politically active. They write into newspapers, they join grassroots campaigns and encourage change. They change minds on laws citizens cannot vote on during the legislative session. Even convicted felons who can't vote can make a difference through these efforts.

Simply voting on election day is important, yes, but only if enough people are doing it. To truly be active and effective, you must stay active past the elections.

I did send in an absentee ballot.

twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...

Delirium's Brother · Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 10:34 am Post subject:

�In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."---MLK

otis · Joined: 02 Jun 2006

Zyzyfer

Boodleheimer · Posted: Thu Nov 09, 2006 5:34 am Post subject:

my state has a 7,000 vote margin in favor of the democrat. man, why is virginia so ass-backwards about politics? (don't answer that.) the republican has been seen in photos with KKK member, called a man of Indian descent a "macaca"... what does it take to lose as a member of the GOP??

ChopChaeJoe · Joined: 05 Mar 2006 Location: Seoul

First election since '92 that I haven't voted. Since no election (anywhere, ever?) was decided on a vote, so what?

What the heck is a macaca?

twg · Joined: 02 Nov 2006 Location: Getting some fresh air...