11-02-2010, 09:53 AM | #1 |
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American Members: Remember to Vote today!
Although I'm not American, I do live in the US and am/will be profoundly affected by what goes on here. If you haven't voted, please vote. If you are looking for advice as to which to vote for, I can't recommend one over the other but I can offer this:
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Well, I voted early and cast my ballot for both Senator Harry Reid and Representative Shelley Berkley.
The hair on my neck literally stands up when I even entertain the very basic thought that someone like Sharron Angle (the Tea Party nutjob who is challenging Sen. Harry Reid, here in Nevada) might win and end up representing Nevada in the U.S. Senate. She is a regular whack job and has some just outright crazy ideas (abolishing Social Security and Medicare, making ALL abortions illegal, no separation of church/state, etc.). The economy here in Nevada has been utterly devastated in the current economic crisis and Nevadans are completely livid with anger. I'm hoping that that anger doesn't manifest itself in making things so much worse by putting the likes of Sharron Angle in such a high and influential office. In another sense, though, I think that this election will do one big main thing. It will send a strong message to these two-faced, self-serving crooked politicians that if they don't serve the will of the people they are supposed to represent, they will be held to account and voted OUT. The ONE thing that We The People still have.....and that the crooked political establishment is afraid of is......The. Vote. ~Theo~
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I voted on my way to work.
Staight Democratic ticket and for hunting and fishing?
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For the first time in my voting history, I felt very strange. In some ways, kinda like I was signing my own death certificate. Not because of who I voted for but because everything is so messed up. (no, it wasn't gop or tp I voted for.) I'm happy with who I voted for, I'm really happy I voted. I'm worried about the outcome of every bodies vote. Maybe this will be the final spiral before this country crashes and burns. I sure hope it's rebuilt by smart, forward thinking people.
GO VOTE! It's your right. We have an obligation to fix the crap.
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Congrats to those who vote. I voted already. New town, new place to vote but there I was.
For those who chose not to vote, after today, I dont want to hear a single complaint about anything political.
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Get out to vote!! Thus the right to gloat!! or........
(I'm sooooooo skeered there will be no gloating this time)
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I did! Thanks for the thread.................
We will not be stopped by Tea Bag zealouts and bigots! They might gain some seats, but in 2012, they will be leaving!! Hopefully then, a real Democratic majority will take over and all the insane deadlock will stop and what needs to be done, gets done! This economy is slowly recovering. It sux that it is so slow, but, what it endured was never experienced before in the US and is a global situation. Let the GOP and tea baggers gloat if they take over the House or even the Senate because then people will get the gravity of what happened. They won't be able to make much of a difference in the recovery. Let them take the blame, AGAIN!! Moderate Republicans with brains are quite OK by me, too! Don't have a problem with them, really. Such short memories in this country ....... |
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I am a nervous WRECK waiting for the returns, I can't focus.
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I voted early. It was disheartening how many repubs ran unopposed or against only a libertarian. The number of unopposed repub judges was especially high. People know here - dems don't win. Resistance is futile in small town tx.
Ps. I hope Sharon angle doesn't beat Reid.
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Okay, here's a little political levity for a little lighthearted chuckle.
Courtesy of the Harry Reid/Sharron Angle campaign race, here in Nevada. ~Theo~ ....the giftie guy.
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I voted two weeks ago, straight Dem ticket!!!! I am also anxious for tonight. I hope all the Tea Party candidates crash and burn tonight. I feel for you folks in Nevada, California, Delaware, etc, for the nutjobs on your ballots.
In a way, the Tea Partiers will divide the Republican votes; pulling the extreme fanaticals away from the mainstream Republican party. I hope anyway!
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That race in Nevada is the one that bothers me the most. I don't think Reid is effective as Senate majority Leader and it is time for someone else, but I don't want to see him out of the Senate completely. |
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I voted this afternoon in Virginia. Democrat all the way.
(2 years is not enough time to repair 8 years of inherited damage.)
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You want to push me over the edge don't you? OMG OMG OMG
I know, I should not have looked. They creep me out! I watched Beck's rally and about hyperventilated....though yes, I watched the entire thing. I must be a political masochist. Here in Nashville we did not have any repugs running un-opposed and no judgeships. Just Governor which had a repug, a Democrat and like 30 independents? a Senator with one of each and a state Senator Democrat running against write in votes. Tennessee used to always go Democrat until all the corruption in the State Democratic party came to light in the 70's. UGH. Things would be so different if people would just act right!
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Oh, and I guess I should mention, as a side note, that Senator Reid happens to be a Mormon, but what I respect the most about this man and his faith is that he has never allowed his faith to interfere with his support of just causes, including equal rights for the GLBTQ community and especially the repeal of DADT. Here's an excerpt from an article published by the Las Vegas Sun: http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010...al-unfair-law/ "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, an advocate of repealing the law, deserves credit for attaching that proposal to the defense bill. He could have taken the easy road during an election year and ducked the issue. But we send senators to Washington to make tough decisions and Reid, a Nevada Democrat, has shown repeatedly that he is more than up to that task." I, for one Nevadan, am very much a supporter of our "Man from Searchlight", Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and I was very happy and proud to cast my vote for him. I am going to be extremely disappointed and surprised if that nut job, Sharron Angle, pulls out a win against him. Nevada would lose, in a HUGE way, if she were to be elected, not to mention the loss to the nation of such a good and just man. ~Theo~
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Being on the NC border, our "local" news is broadcast out of Winston-Salem or Greensboro. We don't have a local VA station. That said, I am curious to see who will be voting for this guy.
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Oregon is a vote-by-mail state so my wife and I filled out our ballots a few days ago. She dropped them off this morning.
The optimist in me hopes that enough liberals and progressives did the math and decided that a spineless Democratic congress that had a near-death experience is better than a rabid Tea Party/Republican congress but I doubt it. Here's the thing, what we might end up with is the next-worst of all worlds--a divided government that can't get anything done. The GOP will probably take the House but not the Senate. That means two years of effectively nothing getting done OR Obama having to tack so far to the right that he loses his base and then gets a primary challenge from his left. If that happens, it's over for him, I can't think of a single time in living memory that a President has had a primary challenge and gone on to win the general election. Now, starting tomorrow you're going to start hearing some narratives. The first--and most pernicious of them--will be that the Democrats lost so many seats because they were too liberal. That's a load of bull. The Democratic losses are going to be due to them not being liberal *enough*. Imagine, if you will, if Gitmo went back to just being a Marine base in Cuba, if the warrantless wiretap program had gone away, if investigations into the malfeasance of the Bush administration were underway or had wrapped up, if Medicare-for-all were the law of the land and if a *real* WPA-style jobs program had been created. Does anyone believe that the GOP would even be competitive except in locales so safe that they could run Osama bin Laden and win? Much of what one needs to know about the difference between the parties can be summed up here: Mr. Obama has done nothing violating the Constitution and one of the *first* orders of business for a GOP-controlled House will be to start impeachment proceedings against him. ALL the evidence points to Mr. Bush having lied to get us into a war and the Democrats wouldn't even consider pursuing an investigation. Why? In the name of 'bipartisanship' and because--and here I quote directly from both Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid; "if we did that then the Republicans will just do tit-for-tat". I want to shake both of them and ask "so, how'd that 'if we let things slide, they'll let things slide' work out for you?" It was stupid and craven. And yet, the Democratic party is all we have standing between us and full-blown theocratic fascism in this nation. Make no mistake, the Tea Party has most of the elements of a full-blown fascist movement and the Republican party has *long* been moving toward theocracy. I hope that everyone here will vote because the stakes are really, really high.
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Dear Americans;
Please vote and vote well. We Canadians have to share a gigantic island with your country so we care. Love, Brandy
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I voted this afternoon. Thanks all for getting out the vote!
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