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I completely agree with what Sam said... but I'm young, I must vote my heart and ideals. I am not voting for Kerry, because I don't think he's the best compromise for the executive, better than bush, yes, but even Nader is better than Bush. I fail to see, and have failed to see for over a year now, how anyone could wholeheartedly support George Bush.

In a scant few hours, here on the east coast, where I live. The polls will open, and I will cast my vote. I've been tempted to do as my mother, an early voter in WV, did and vote straigth democratic as a protest vote against the religious right.... but that sits ill with me.

I am however voting against every Republican running as a Bush sycophant(MD residents know exactly who I'm talking about) as a protest vote, abstaining a bit and voting as I will for the rest.

Once I do that... I'm hopefully done with politics for at least two years. I plan on eating, drinking and being merry at the meetup in DC, on the eve of the election, in the Capitol City.

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  • Eat, drink, and be merry (Score:3, Funny)

    by Red Warrior ( 637634 ) * on Tuesday November 02, 2004 @04:18AM (#10697935) Homepage Journal
    Because tomorrow ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US!

    and some not all caps text, because /. filters are lame.

    • Eating, drinking and being merry will happen tommorrow with a few of the /. crew(please try to stop by DC on your way back from Iraq when your tour is up... I *do* owe you a beer, and it'd be wasteful to go all the way out to washington state to fufill that). Worst case for me is Bush wins and he has to deal with his own messes.

      So long as there is a clear winner... I'll be a happy man :-)
      • So long as there is a clear winner... I'll be a happy man :-)

        Strongly agreed. I have my preferrence for who it should be, but I'd like to skip a repeat of 4 years ago. I think 58.7% would be a good number.

      • So long as there is a clear winner... I'll be a happy man

        I disagree with this completely. I think it is better if there is no clear winner. That way, more people will lose faith in the political process. That is good, because the process needs to be fixed, and the more people realize that, the sooner we can set about fixing it. I'm hoping for Kerry by the barest fraction of a nose, but I'm voting Cobb because I live in a "safe state."

        • I disagree with this completely. I think it is better if there is no clear winner. That way, more people will lose faith in the political process. That is good, because the process needs to be fixed, and the more people realize that, the sooner we can set about fixing it. I'm hoping for Kerry by the barest fraction of a nose, but I'm voting Cobb because I live in a "safe state."

          You're all for having 4 years where a president can't get anything important done because of lack of political support, in orde

          • You're all for having 4 years where a president can't get anything important done because of lack of political support, in order to do that?

            Yes. Absolutely. I don't support Kerry because of what he would do, but I hope he wins because of what he might not do. Having him unable to do anything much would be fine by me. His domestic agenda is not going to get past a Republican congress anyway. Besides, did Bush have that problem? How much has he got done? Did he have a "clear mandate?"

            No, a "clear mandate

    • Early gloating, or unripe sour grapes? We shall see, and win or lose I shall remember you said this. Even if you are kidding around.
  • With a few notable exceptions. First I will be voting Libertarian for Lt. Governor because the Libertarian canidate wants to eliminate the office. Second I will be voting to retain our Republican Secretary of State, Sam Reed because I think he is doing a good job

    I will be voting against the incumbent and Democratic party endorsed canidate for Superentendent of Public Instruction (the office is non-partisan). While I don't really like the challenger I figure I'll keep voting to toss the incumbent until some

  • One of my girlfriend's professors had an interesting point. She stated she was going to vote straight democratic for the first time ever for a sound reason: even if Bush wins, if you can get a democrat majority in Congress at least the government will be frequently deadlocked.

    What's worse, an all-repub/all-dem executive and legislative set of bodies that gets to go on an idealogical rampage or a partisan stalemate? I think that it's probably a step up if you can at least get the government to stop hurting

    • We've only had straight GOP for 4 years and barely at that considering Jim Jeffords defection.
      In the last 50 years, however, we have had extended periods of all dem control like say during the Johnson admin.
      If I was her, I could vote Kerry and then GOP for congress. It's the only thing that kept the economy growing under clinton.

      • Yes, but the point is that it's so close a race that doing that might well put another 2 to 4 years of all Republican government back into place. If you vote all democrat, however, you're riding the knife a little more carefully because it's less likely that you'll have an all dem gov than an all gop gov at the end of the week.

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