The Final US Election Thread

**Koga No Goshi** · 11-04-2008, 18:38

Originally Posted by TinCow

So, can anyone report on the lines? My agency is getting out of work 2 hours early for voting, but from what I'm hearing I'm bringing a book and expecting to be in line for a long time.

Lines are almost entirely nonexistent at my polling place. I have never stood in a line for more than ten minutes, I live in a relatively quiet neighborhood and there's just never been a huge crush to vote on election days at any particular time. But, I went this morning before work, and out of the two machines they had to accept the ballots (we use paper/inkblot voting and then you have to feed it into an automatic accepter) broke. So, I was in line for a good hour and a half. Nothing compared to the stories you hear about 3, 5, 8 hour waits in hotly contested districts in Ohio or Florida-- but still, that was a multiplied increase and I had never, never been there when all of the little voting booths were totally full ... they were today.

I am sure, if you are used to lines at your location, they will be worse than usual. So don't wait until 6:30pm after work to vote if you live in such a district.

**Oleander Ardens** · 11-04-2008, 19:06

Great Work, CA. Nice posts so far.

**Gregoshi** · 11-04-2008, 19:07

Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi

...(we use paper/inkblot voting and then you have to feed it into an automatic accepter)...

Ditto here. The voting booth in a suitcase.

We only have one scanner though.

**PanzerJaeger** · 11-04-2008, 19:12

Regardless of whether this is a Republican or Democratic year, the way McCain has run his campaign is inexcusable.

I really hope he wins, though. Reinstatement of the assault weapons ban is going to mess me up.

BTW, good job CA.

**Strike For The South** · 11-04-2008, 19:14

I waited 5 minutes to vote.

**Koga No Goshi** · 11-04-2008, 19:20

Originally Posted by PanzerJaeger

Regardless of whether this is a Republican or Democratic year, the way McCain has run his campaign is inexcusable.

Holy crap, what makes you say that?

I'm surprised.

**Strike For The South** · 11-04-2008, 19:27

Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi

Holy crap, what makes you say that?

I'm surprised.

1. Picking Palin
2. Flip-flopping on experience
3. Not being the McCain we saw in 2000
4. Not hitting Obama on tangible things
5. Allowing his supporters to be painted as idiots who thought Obama was terrorist socialist.
6. Picking Palin

All reasons in the end I couldnt vote for the man

**Koga No Goshi** · 11-04-2008, 19:48

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

1. Picking Palin
2. Flip-flopping on experience
3. Not being the McCain we saw in 2000
4. Not hitting Obama on tangible things
5. Allowing his supporters to be painted as idiots who thought Obama was terrorist socialist.
6. Picking Palin

I'm surprised because in the election thread we went one and a half hundred pages on things like:

1. "Obama's VP pick was just as bad/worse."
2. "Obama flip flops on everything, you can't trust him."
3. "Obama pretends to be for working people but he's really going to tax them out of existence."
4. "Obama's campaign and supporters are just as personal and attack just as low below the belt."
5. What? Weren't like the last 10-15 pages of the election thread people condemning Obama as a socialist? It seems like a lot of McCain supporters really believe that, and not just the idiot ones.
6. "The media just wasn't nice to her."

I don't disagree with your objective assessment of McCain's campaign, and yes Strike I know that you are non partisan in this race (though I wouldn't say you're totally politically neutral either, but close enough compared to a diehard McCain or diehard Obama supporter), I am just surprised to see people um... "confessing it", at this late hour?

I know there have been some early detractors on the Republican side of how McCain has run is campaign. But there have equally been many posters defending it or eviscerating Obama's as just as bad or worse in every single respect right up until the final page of the election thread. So I'm in a bit of shock.

**Strike For The South** · 11-04-2008, 20:06

Originally Posted by Koga No Goshi

I'm surprised because in the election thread we went one and a half hundred pages on things like:

1. "Obama's VP pick was just as bad/worse."
2. "Obama flip flops on everything, you can't trust him."
3. "Obama pretends to be for working people but he's really going to tax them out of existence."
4. "Obama's campaign and supporters are just as personal and attack just as low below the belt."
5. What? Weren't like the last 10-15 pages of the election thread people condemning Obama as a socialist? It seems like a lot of McCain supporters really believe that, and not just the idiot ones.
6. "The media just wasn't nice to her."

I don't disagree with your objective assessment of McCain's campaign, and yes Strike I know that you are non partisan in this race (though I wouldn't say you're totally politically neutral either, but close enough compared to a diehard McCain or diehard Obama supporter), I am just surprised to see people um... "confessing it", at this late hour?

I know there have been some early detractors on the Republican side of how McCain has run is campaign. But there have equally been many posters defending it or eviscerating Obama's as just as bad or worse in every single respect right up until the final page of the election thread. So I'm in a bit of shock.

1. Biden may be the ultimate politician but he certainly has a better mind than Palin and much more experience in foreign policy
2. True but McCain ran on trust and he destroyed that buy selling out for votes
3. Ummmm I would've voted for McCain 2000 but the 08 verison is a shell of the former man.
4. Not so much There really haven't been many attacks on McCain and Palin is like a Biden without the big words to cover her mess
5. He has very socialistic tendencies but painting him as Marx only turns the independents off and gives Obama ammo
6. Picking Palin