By insane I mean over the top psychotic need of a rubber suit and padded room with no hope of ever getting out to see the light of day again insane.
Ok, as if the whole Kerry flip flopping constantly and trying to scare people with stuff the president doesn’t even have any control over and frankly saying stuff that makes no sense combined with Bush’s antics wasn’t enough. Oh no, then you get people from each party doing crazy stuff. You have Bush signs being stolen or defaced. You have people fighting over this whole issue with loved ones. You have people trying to rig the election by voting where they do not live. (And not have a valid reason for such like being in school or the military… I have no issue with absentee ballots of this nature. I mean people who for no other reason than they want to rig the election.) I mean you have some kind of creepy vote pairing thing going on that just makes me sick to my stomache and think that somewhere George Washington is gonna rise from the grave to people trying to register in more than one location like this new case of all these people attempting a Florida and Ohio registration. What the heck is up with that? No you vote where you live. Enough said! Heck I debated lon and hard about if I should try to absentee from Ohio just because it is so key. I finally decided since I no longer really live there (even though my house is there) it would not be right. I am a citizen of Virginia once more and need to vote here. It would not be moral and I don’t really think it would be legal to attempt to throw a vote in Ohio towards a candidate hoping to swing the election.
Well now I’m reading the news today and there was a guy in GA who’s wife went to vote (I guess more of that early voting stuff they are doing) and her baby had on a Kerry shirt and they asked her to turn the shirt inside out and she refused. Apparently it goes against the whole “No campaigning” thing. What are they going to do next? Beat you with a stick if you have a bumper sticker? Oh look that person has a Nader bumper sticker, let’s go beat them with a stick! Oh look a big W on the bumper! Let’s beat them with a stick. Oh whoops, you’re just a Wisconsin fan? We’re dreadfully sorry… on your way… Um, hope those wounds heal… But anyway so this guy decided it was unfair his wife was treated like this so he put on a kerry shirt and a bush mask and went down to the polling location to wreak havoc. Okie dokie… a little much dude.
But no, this is not all! Heaven forbid. A teacher kicked a student for wearing a GOP shirt? What the frell? OMG… everyone, let’s pull out those sticks again!
Of course there’s the whole thing going around here (It’s Skins territory) that the game yesterday was rigged because the story goes the incumbant follows the Redskins Skins win, so does incumbant. Skins lose, so does incumbant. I say if we are using sports as our guideline for president then everyone needs to vote for Bush because after all the Sox broke the “curse of the bambino” on W’s watch. Therefore Bush must be the best president ever! Right?
Whatever. Thank goodness it should hopefully all be over tomorrow.. late… haha… and I’m a total moron and I’m gonna be tuning into the election results right after Gilmore Girls. Why? Because I”m a dork with nothing better to do! HAHA.
I just pray we don’t end up with election returns for a month like last time. Or however long it was I went without sleep for… HAHA.
Please people, vote, but get informed. Don’t just go vote for anyone. Learn the actual issues and everything else and then go vote. Ignore the lies and the hoopla and so on and so forth. Ignore the parties. Vote your conscience. And if you are a praying sort, pray about it as well.
And may we all survive the next day and a half…
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loadhan said:
I’m voting from my college address but I feel justified in doing so. I spend all my time in Cleveland; I don’t even go home over breaks. I only go to Sandusky to visit. Cleveland issues are now my issues. Plus, this is where I put myself down on the 2000 census and where I voted in 2000.
Though, I live in Ohio anyway so it really doesn’t change anything on the national scheme.
But I do agree (somewhat). Some of my friends said they should have voted in Ohio because their state is already decided. I really can’t say they should for that reason since that’s working the system against itself. However, I think this system is stupid. If I lived in a state that was already going for “the other guy”, I would feel less a need to vote. They say the electorial college makes it so candidates do not ignore small populated states. Well, it’s made it so candidates ignore non-swing states. Do the candidates visit California or New York or Texas much? No. They visit Ohio and Florida and Iowa and Pennsylvania. Maybe wanting to vote at CWRU instead of their home state is trying to influence the results, but it could also be an attempt to actually have their vote count.
I don’t know what would work better but the electorial college is stupid.
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Lady Ozma said:
The EC could probably use some help
But the point is that people would ignore states like Nebraska and what have you. I don’t know that there is a win win situation frankly. I mean if you took the EC away, it would screw a lot of people. If you keep it, people feel that their votes don’t matter because votes are going to only one candidate.
Of course I don’t think it matters much to me if I’m somewhere the president visits. Maybe that’s because I grew up in DC? I don’t know. But given how packed those things can be plus the security, I probably wouldn’t turn out unless i was really gung ho for someone anyway. At least now you can see what the candidates are doing in those states and hear what’s being said. The EC works more today then it probably did in early days just for that reason.
Anyway, either way I think someone is going to feel disenfranchised. Be it the person on the losing side of a state’s election or the person in some less populated area of the nation. Given those options, I’d rather have it work the way it is working now.
Though I heard there was a study that said even if the EC votes were allowed to be split for the way the votes went, that Bush would still have won the last election just because he won geographically. Geographically Bush had much more of the country than Gore did. Gore just had tons of votes in really populated places thus allowing him to pound up that popular vote. It’s an interesting theory worth pondering at any rate.
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brycen said:
In my state it does not matter as W will win Georgia regardless of whom I vote for at the polls. Of course maybe that is just the republicans trying to scare us who are not out of voting.
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Lady Ozma said:
W will take va as well.
I’m still going out. You never really know. Look at all the idiots in West Palm Beach who tried to claim it was all democratic and then it came out that Nader or whomever that was actually got some of his largest contributions from there. You never know. I mean sure, you can guess… but I guess you never really know till you see…
People should go out and vote regardless of what they think their state will do. I mean if you are frustrated, it doesn’t mean you are alone. But if you all go “Well it doesnt’ matter” then you’ll never know if you make a differance or not.
I went and voted in 1996 here in VA even though I knew VA was going for Dole. No way was I gonna vote for Dole. I voted for Perot because Clinton? Yeah Dole had a better chance for my vote!
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brycen said:
Re: W will take va as well.
I realize that I still need to vote on other election stuff. There is a bunch of local stuff going through tomorrow. That is almost more important than the presidental election. There my one vote matters.
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Lady Ozma said:
Re: W will take va as well.
We have nothing. Seems that here everything is on the “off years” and so there’s like two issues and one random guy who is coincidentally named John Kerry or Kerry John, the signs aren’t clear… and that’s it. So I’ll go cast my vote for those two issues and I guess the two people who are running virtually unopposed and then vote for Prez.
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