Americans: Did you vote?

[Phate]

WELL DID YOU?

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[Javer]

Nice watch.

EDIT: I'm not old enough.

[Niner]

I don't care enough.

Edit: Shit, I did anyway. Go go filling out absentee ballots in a drunken stupor. >.>

[Mana]

I did, but alas, I received no sticker.... now I'm sad.....

[zarahf]

Yes...but then as a pain in my arse the building that I work in is also a voting station so all day long people in, people out...and forget parking.

[Dennis]

I voted!

[sohryu]

I did, but alas, I received no sticker.... now I'm sad.....
Ditto. ;_;

* sohryu cries on Mana's shoulder

Edit: How was your first voting experience, Oji? =o

[Tamanegi Sensei]

Vote? Yeah I did. It was worth the hike up the hillside.

[Mouse]

I did last week. Go go mail-in ballot. :D

Ohio smells prettier already (smoking ban passed \o/).

[Phate]

I did last week. Go go mail-in ballot. :D

Ohio smells prettier already (smoking ban passed \o/).
But but, the joy and fun of walking in and voting right there!




Stuff here in California is going about as I thought it would; Angelides didn't stand a chance. I'm a bit surprised though that Tom McClintock appears to be getting Lt. Governor. Proposition 83 I knew was going to pass by a landslide, but I'm still angry that it did. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/Ph4t3/Emot/emot-argh.gif

Looks like Prop 87 (the Alternative Energy one-- I assume that this got some attention outside California) ain't passing.


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[General Suburbia]

Stuff here in California is going about as I thought it would; Angelides didn't stand a chance. I'm a bit surprised though that Tom McClintock appears to be getting Lt. Governor. Proposition 83 I knew was going to pass by a landslide, but I'm still angry that it did.
No way he would've. Arnold struck gold in being bipartisan, being supportive of the Democratic crowd.

As for me, I'm pretty pissed. My 18th birthday is a week away...

[Phate]

No way he would've. Arnold struck gold in being bipartisan, being supportive of the Democratic crowd.

As for me, I'm pretty pissed. My 18th birthday is a week away...
Well that and nobody likes Angelides.


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[Perfect_Cheezit]

I voted today at around 6.

Most of the candidates I voted for are going in for the win. Amy Klobuchar won in a landslide and so did Keith Ellison - the first Muslim to be elected to Congress, woooo - but unfortunately the one that I deemed most important to me may not win after all: Minnesota's governorship is too close to call and our man Timmy Pawlenty is unfortunately ahead by about 20,000 votes and about 90% of the precincts reporting. Sucks. I really, really wanted Mike Hatch to win.

[Ojisan]

Edit: How was your first voting experience, Oji? =o

Ahhhh! I was so excited about it at one point, but I had a damn doctor's appointment this morning, and after I got home at 4:30, I had no ride until like 6:30, when it was too late. So yeah, I ****ed up my first voting experience by not :(. I'm rather annoyed at myself.

[Sorrow-kun]

That's a fantastic result for the House. If I were an American I'd almost undoubtably be celebrating. The only question remains the Senate. CNN is reporting that the Democrat candidates are leading in both undecided seats, but only by very slender margins. I think there'll almost certainly be recounts in both Montana and Virginia, though, so we could be days away from knowing a result. Nonetheless, the Democrat performance in the House has been excellent. I'm very pleased.

[Mana]

Voting saddens me. The one and only person I wanted to see not re-elected, our incredibly corrupt Governor Rod "Bag of Shit" Blagojevich, was. as reported online:

Most Illinois voters said the issue of corruption and ethics in state government was extremely or very important to them in their vote for governor Tuesday, according to an Associated Press exit poll.

Yet that concern did not appear to hurt Blagojevich, whose administration is under federal investigation. He won a second term in the governor's office over opponents Topinka, a Republican, and Green Party candidate Rich Whitney.

Lana Randolph, speaking after casting her ballot in Collinsville, said she voted for Blagojevich. But the 62-year-old accountant said that "I wasn't too thrilled to vote for him," saying she had questions about his administration's ethics.

Not turning this into some random politics thread, just wanted to get that off my chest x_x;;;

[Kei]

No, I didn't. Since I just moved recently to Missouri, I wasn't registered here to vote. And I wasn't going to drive 20 hours back to New York to vote.

The guy I was going to vote against conceded anyway, so yay. Or something.

[Zero]

Voted last week as well. Mail-In ftw.

Last night was quite a good night. No more rubber stamp congress for Bush (hopefully) :)

[laborpilot86]

I couldn't vote because I'm still registered in New York, and my dad forgot to send me an absentee ballot

Looks like Virginia is going recount, but Webb is probably still going to win, which means three of the most promienant right-wingers (Talent, Santorum, Allen) are out along with the last of the old Rockefeller/Eisenhower Republicans, Chaffee and that crook DeWine

The GOP also suffered heavy causilites in the govenerships, including New York, Maryland, and Massachusetts

Most of the GOPers who hung on either were in safely right-wing areas (Lott in Mississippi) are ran as far to the center as they could (Scharwenegger and the winner of the Florida govenorship, Charlie Christ)

Hillary won easily:icon_danc

Ford Junior lost a tight one:whine:

This election was endorsement for at least partial withdrawal from Iraq and a return to centerist government

[f1rst children]

Well that and nobody likes Angelides.

It's hard to like someone when you have no idea who they are. Especially running in California against a movie star. He ran one commercial that said Arnold=Bush that didn't mention Angelides' name at all. Until 2 days before the election, I didn't even know what he looked like. It's one thing to not embrace the spotlight like movie star Arnold, it's another to hide backstage behind a coat rack quaking with stage fright.

In the other "I didn't even know there was a race going on" race, Senator Feinstein slaughtered some anonymous Republican.

One of the very few virtues of Allen was his support of the video game industry against the "we'll raise your kids for you" busybodies in all levels of government. Hopefully someone steps up in his absence to stop Jack Thompson from being appointed "Czar of Decency."

[Phate]

It's hard to like someone when you have no idea who they are. Especially running in California against a movie star. He ran one commercial that said Arnold=Bush that didn't mention Angelides' name at all. Until 2 days before the election, I didn't even know what he looked like. It's one thing to not embrace the spotlight like movie star Arnold, it's another to hide backstage behind a coat rack quaking with stage fright.

In the other "I didn't even know there was a race going on" race, Senator Feinstein slaughtered some anonymous Republican.

One of the very few virtues of Allen was his support of the video game industry against the "we'll raise your kids for you" busybodies in all levels of government. Hopefully someone steps up in his absence to stop Jack Thompson from being appointed "Czar of Decency."

Well, Angelides was covered pretty well in the local newspapers I read, so I knew plenty about him for a while (I ended up voting for Westly in the primaries); I did do a lot of my own independent research on him though. What killed Angelides was that he kept attacking Schwarzenegger without really offering anything useful. That and I figure that most constituents were bitter that Westly didn't win the primary.

Feinstein winning was guaranteed, but the least the Republicans could do is come up with a candidate for Senator that isn't so out-of-tune with the rest of the state. I mean, the guy is for possible military intervention in Iran. Plus his name is hilarious (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Mountjoy).

[PsychoSaiya-jin]

Well, Angelides was covered pretty well in the local newspapers I read, so I knew plenty about him for a while (I ended up voting for Westly in the primaries); I did do a lot of my own independent research on him though. What killed Angelides was that he kept attacking Schwarzenegger without really offering anything useful. That and I figure that most constituents were bitter that Westly didn't win the primary.[/URL]. So Angelides mostly ran something of a smear campaign but forgot to offer himself as a viable alternative?
I've seen some of ads that were run (on youtube) and they are pretty cringeworthy. They seem to say "Arnold Baad" and little more. Not very useful really.

I still have concerns about the presidential election seeing as there still seems to be a lack of killer opposition in that area.

[Pachinko]

Yes.

No sticker for me. But my candidate won, so paaah.

[fugupinkeye]

Vote by Mail here in Oregon, so (sob) no shiny sticker for me either.

Still most of what I voted for one, measures and candidates. And it's a little less scary today living in a country with separate Executive and Legislative branches again.

[sakura_blossom]

I voted yesterday, and I'm quite pleased with the results in this years election.

[KiraraKim]

No, I found out at the last minute that I had to work in NY for the last 3 days and didn't have time to fill out an absentee ballot.

Oh well at least I am happy with who won for my state.

[Blue Audio]

I registered too late to vote in this years election. :(

[laborpilot86]

Looks like Allen is going to concede in Virginia