Title: OT: Get Out and Vote!
Description: Your Vote Counts!!
Vladfan - November 4, 2008 05:03 PM (GMT)
No matter who the candidate, go out and vote!
It's your RIGHT and it's an honor.
:wink:
Career200 - November 4, 2008 05:28 PM (GMT)
Yeah man. :)
Where there is so much interest in this year's election for whatever reason, it's going to feel particularly good to cast my ballot today.
draftermatt - November 4, 2008 05:46 PM (GMT)
I'm gonna vote on my way home from work, and hope the lines aren't terrible.
My wife just voted and it took 45 minutes. A colleague in Rockville said it took him 90 minutes.
Bark - November 4, 2008 06:18 PM (GMT)
I am going at 2PM. Hopefully everything has died down by then.
Also, remember there is a slot issue at hand.
Milto - November 4, 2008 06:36 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Vladfan @ Nov 4 2008, 01:03 PM) |
No matter who the candidate, go out and vote!
It's your RIGHT and it's an honor.
:wink: |
Already did.
It is the only real right we have.
I used to think everybody should vote, I don't anymore. People who can't name the
VP or the House majority leader, or just don't follow politics, really shouldn't.
Vladfan - November 4, 2008 07:21 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Milto @ Nov 4 2008, 01:36 PM) |
| QUOTE (Vladfan @ Nov 4 2008, 01:03 PM) | No matter who the candidate, go out and vote!
It's your RIGHT and it's an honor.
:wink: |
Already did.
It is the only real right we have.
I used to think everybody should vote, I don't anymore. People who can't name the
VP or the House majority leader, or just don't follow politics, really shouldn't.
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That would be a majority of the population.
:D
Skipjack - November 4, 2008 09:10 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Vladfan @ Nov 4 2008, 01:03 PM) |
No matter who the candidate, go out and vote!
It's your RIGHT and it's an honor.
:wink: |
I agree with you Hal!
I voted this morning on the way to Salisbury…it looked like there is no economic downturn in the retail shops I went in today. What crowds. Everyone I talked to had voted or said they were going to on the way home.
I can't wait for the returns to start coming in. I'm a election night info junkie. I have my widgets all in place, I've checked realclearpolitics.com for the latest in the state and national polls, and my pollster.com map site is ready to tabulate. I am more excited about this election that any I have ever voted in before.
I voted for the slots. I'm tired of seeing Maryland gambling money go out of state.
stanhouse - November 4, 2008 11:03 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Skipjack @ Nov 4 2008, 04:10 PM) |
| I am more excited about this election that any I have ever voted in before. |
What about the Hoover/Roosevelt election? :wink:
Milto - November 4, 2008 11:20 PM (GMT)
They keep talking about heavy turnout and showing clips of people standing in line to vote.
There was no line when I voted. It was a steady flow, but not a line.
I am more nervous than excited about this election. One thing is for sure,
I truly hope we have a President-Elect in the morning no matter who it is.
Skipjack - November 5, 2008 11:13 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (stanhouse @ Nov 4 2008, 07:03 PM) |
| QUOTE (Skipjack @ Nov 4 2008, 04:10 PM) | | I am more excited about this election that any I have ever voted in before. |
What about the Hoover/Roosevelt election? :wink:
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:lol: Funny!
Milto - November 5, 2008 12:07 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Vladfan @ Nov 4 2008, 03:21 PM) |
| QUOTE (Milto @ Nov 4 2008, 01:36 PM) | | QUOTE (Vladfan @ Nov 4 2008, 01:03 PM) | No matter who the candidate, go out and vote!
It's your RIGHT and it's an honor.
:wink: |
Already did.
It is the only real right we have.
I used to think everybody should vote, I don't anymore. People who can't name the
VP or the House majority leader, or just don't follow politics, really shouldn't.
|
That would be a majority of the population.
:D
|
True, and never more obvious.
Maryland got the slots! Good for you Jack.
Skipjack - November 5, 2008 12:15 PM (GMT)
Good morning Milt.
The slots are good and I'm glad to have it but I'm afraid that it is too limiting. I understand that the revenue structure for the state may not be attractive to the big casino operators. The state will get 50% of the take…good for the state but not so much for the casino.
At least it's a start toward slowing the flow of gambling money to our neighboring states.
Bark - November 5, 2008 12:26 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Skipjack @ Nov 5 2008, 08:15 AM) |
Good morning Milt.
The slots are good and I'm glad to have it but I'm afraid that it is too limiting. I understand that the revenue structure for the state may not be attractive to the big casino operators. The state will get 50% of the take…good for the state but not so much for the casino.
At least it's a start toward slowing the flow of gambling money to our neighboring states. |
Agreed. It is long overdo and it is nice to have an income stream for the State outside of sales and income taxes.
Skipjack - November 5, 2008 01:40 PM (GMT)
A nice piece from the National Review On-Line' s Jim Manzi (not an Obama fan-boy)
| QUOTE |
I have argued in this space that I believe that neither of this year’s nominees was likely to be a successful President. I continue to believe that Barack Obama is likely to be a poor President who will attempt to implement policies that will be detrimental to the national interest. Further, I think most political commentary relies far too much on the sloppy sentimentality of “Here’s how I feel about things”, but here goes.
Legal racial segregation was prevalent in America within living memory, yet we appear to have just elected a black man to the position of maximum honor, authority and influence in the country. The manner of this political victory is important, as well. This was not some prize bestowed upon him, and Barack Obama didn’t just buy a winning lottery ticket; he out-smarted and out-worked both Hillary Clinton and John McCain. It is healthy that the American political system gathers the energies and talents of those who feel excluded into the nation to change it, rather than pushing them away from the nation to oppose it. I expect a lot of damage to be done to the nation’s economy, politics, and social order due to the excesses of a government dominated by a combination of Barack Obama and a radicalized Democratic caucus in Congress, but as a wise man once put it, “there is a great deal of ruin in a nation.”
There are about 1,460 days until the next Presidential election, and I assume that I will spend approximately the next 1,459 of them opposing Barack Obama. But I’m spending today proud abut what my country has overcome. |
I don't agree with about half of what Manzi wrote.
I agree with the sentences I underlined.
I most emphatically agree with the last sentence that I made bold.
This is a good day to feel proud.
Career200 - November 5, 2008 03:22 PM (GMT)
I deleted both of my posts. Thanks for the discussion though.
Career200 - November 5, 2008 05:13 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (stanhouse @ Nov 5 2008, 11:44 AM) |
| QUOTE (Career200 @ Nov 5 2008, 10:22 AM) | | I deleted both of my posts. Thanks for the discussion though. |
I didn't mean any offense, Dan. Perhaps I should have used some emoticon to indicate that. I was just curious what you meant. Again, no offense meant or taken.
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Oh, not at all. It was a fair question.
It's just that as a new public servant, I live in fear of the Hatch Act.
http://www.osc.gov/hatchact.htm Vladfan - November 5, 2008 05:46 PM (GMT)
I voted and my guy won!
Was the 2,000th voter in my polling place and they gave me a bag of candy.
:)
Completely true!
:)
Bark - November 5, 2008 06:14 PM (GMT)
The Hatch Act is rarely invoked where I work, but when it is, everyone has to sign another form saying they understand it.
Utter bullcrap!
Career200 - November 5, 2008 07:04 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (stanhouse @ Nov 5 2008, 02:01 PM) |
| Having thought about it some more, I will go back and delete my earlier post that contains a quotation from another poster which might be misconstrued as political. |
I appreciate your thoughtfulness. Sorry to be a wet blanket.
Milto - November 5, 2008 08:45 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE |
| I expect a lot of damage to be done to the nation’s economy, politics, and social order due to the excesses of a government dominated by a combination of Barack Obama and a radicalized Democratic caucus in Congress, |
I agree with that.
He should have mentioned Reid in the Senate, and Pelosi, Frank, Dodd, Durbin, Waters and other by name instead of just alluding to them.
I suppose the victory by Obama ensures us that a congressional investigation and subsequent indictments will not happen. It is as good as a Presidential pardon for the perpetraitors of the credit crisis Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, who caused the fall of Fanny and Freddie and cost the American public millions of dollars.
Sluggo - November 5, 2008 11:43 PM (GMT)
Interesting what's going on in Missouri right now. McCain leads Obama by about 6,00 votes, but Nader leads Barr by about 6,000. If all the Barr votes go to McCain and the Nader votes to Obama, there's a difference of 546 votes.
Also interesting to see that Maine, the whitest state in the union, went 57/40 for Obama.
purplephenom - November 6, 2008 12:52 PM (GMT)
Did you guys see this site - fivethirtyeight.com? They're the guys who do baseball stat predictions- they extended it to politics and predicted the popular vote to a tenth of a percent. Looks like their Senate predictions aren't quite there yet though. I thought that was pretty cool.
I was worried I'd have a super long wait to vote- since the voter turnout at this polling place is usually really high. But I left my house around 5:30, I was home before 6. Which was great.
Bark - November 6, 2008 01:42 PM (GMT)
"I suppose the victory by Obama ensures us that a congressional investigation and subsequent indictments will not happen. It is as good as a Presidential pardon for the perpetraitors of the credit crisis Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, who caused the fall of Fanny and Freddie and cost the American public millions of dollars"
That wasn't going to happen regardless of the election outcome. Bush and his cronies should be charged for war crimes, but that isn't going to happen either. It is a shame too. I was hoping that all of the incumbents would be kicked out regardless of party.