I'm actually going to vote this yearFollow

I'd be interested if I wasn't afraid that Samira would slaughter me to have you all to herself.

In the 2006 Illinois gubernatorial election, there was enough dislike for both the Democratic & Republican candidate that the Green Party candidate managed to cross the 10% mark, thus making the Green Party a bona fide Illinois political party. This means they get automatic ballot placement without the laborious signature collection process, etc.

In the 2008 Illinois presidental primary, I worked a polling station. We had ballots for Democratic candidates, Republicans and Greens. After a long day working the most active primary in recent history, I had handed out zero Green Party ballots.

If they don't make 10% again in November, I'm not sure they keep their status. They may have until the 2010 gubernatorial.

I think the GOP is going to be broken for a long, long time.

The greatest tragedy of the Republicans is that they let themselves get sidetracked by the religious fundamentalist issues and national security panic and they lost sight of the fiscal conservatism and smaller government they were supposed to represent. There hasn't been a Republican president or candidate that actually represented the real Republican party since Reagan.

The GOP needs to do some soul searching, flush the toilet of idiots like Sarah Palin and my family out in North Dakota that own the party there (t-_-t to you cousin Gary), and in eight years re-emerge with a smaller, tighter base of true conservatives instead of all the drunkards they have under the big tent right now.

Until that happens, the Dems are going to own this country. Considering the state we're in right now, that may not be such a bad thing.

(Seriously, didn't W completely trainwreck the baseball franchise he owned for a while there? Couldn't y'all have seen that he was going to eventually do the exact same thing to the entire country?)

Edited, Oct 16th 2008 12:15pm by catwho

Honestly, politically HRC is my closest-to-ideal candidate. But she's a pro, and having flubbed the primary there's no way she'd break away to a third party, effectively throwing the election to McCain.

/Whoosh.

This shirt is a good one.

*cough* Obama *cough*

lawl.

You don't get alot of stuff.

I'm voting today and I finally made up my mind about who I'm going to vote for.

I've decided to go with Barack Obama over Cynthia McKinney of the Green party, and here's why:

1. I think Obama would make a better President in our current political climate, even though I disagree with many of his positions and I think he is lacking some courage. He is an intellectual genius, open-minded, a hard worker, and knows his way around Washington. They wouldn't even let McKinney in the capitol building when she was a state representative, and she would be stonewalled by any status quo powers that remained.

2. Gov. Palin.

3. John McCain.

4. Relatively speaking, and because of our current mess, I think Obama will actually turn out to be one of the best Presidents in history, and the historical perspective of future generations will confirm that. I would like to be able to say in 40-50 years that, yeah, I voted for the first non-white and one of the best Presidents in US history.

5. Michelle Obama (I'm actually voting for her.) For the first time since George Bush was elected President, I am proud of this country.

P.S. If McCain wins I am moving to Canada pronto, and so are many other folks I've spoken to, so you Canadians get ready for the invasion if this election is stolen.

Who did you cast a vote for and why?

He could marry Bhodi, that would cover the family angle.