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ulrich von hutten
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Topic: Election 2008 Posted: 05-Nov-2008 at 06:12 |
Congratulations to Obama. Hope, he will realize only a few of his ideas he indicated in his bloomy speeches.
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Posted: 05-Nov-2008 at 05:24 |
I'm too tired and too emotional right now to say much more than that this, is a very special night. I never thought I would see this in my lifetime.
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Suren
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Posted: 05-Nov-2008 at 04:37 |
Now we are on the right way. Sorry for rich dudes and arm traders!
Edited by Suren - 05-Nov-2008 at 04:39
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Posted: 05-Nov-2008 at 04:31 |
Originally posted by Suren
Dear rednecks hail for your black president! Hail Barak Obama!
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A round of Black Panther Gay Marriages for everyone Congrats to Barack Obama!!! I am very happy to hear the tremendous gains he has gained in the last few hours. I was happy, too, to cast my vote for him this morning .
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Posted: 05-Nov-2008 at 04:26 |
Obama won!!! I am sooo happy, but it will be interesting to see what happens with the balance of power.
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Posted: 05-Nov-2008 at 04:19 |
Dear rednecks hail for your black president! Hail Barak Obama!
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Posted: 05-Nov-2008 at 00:54 |
Originally posted by pikeshot1600
Your "first time" was very easy and...refreshing? |
Well considering who it was with... All kidding aside I enjoyed voting for state constitutional amendments much more than the Presidency. I felt like I was having an actual impact in those choices compared to the millions of others voting for president.
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 23:27 |
Originally posted by Donasin
Originally posted by JanusRook
I have just voted in my precinct and am happy to report I had no waiting or troubles while voting.
The two major issues for Ohio right now are limiting pay day loans, and the amount of interest that may be charged as well as how much a person is able to withdraw. The second is the building of a casino in Wilmington, Ohio. Personally I feel very strongly about the second and having worked at a casino I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with them. Also DHL is pulling out of Wilmington so that means that in a few months hundreds of people will be without jobs so I figure that the casino could fill the gap in the local economy.
Of course knowing Ohio (at least knowing those flatlanders in the horrible northeast/central regions) the issue will fail miserable and no casino will be built and by next election Ohio will have lost even more jobs.
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I did my part to help ensure casinos in Ohio.
For the overall process, it was my 1st time and I found it a very easy and refreshing process.
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Your "first time" was very easy and...refreshing?
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 23:27 |
The turn out in my town in Jersey was incredible. At 8 am there were 2 lines running outside the school gym that serves as the polls for 3 voting districts. I left the school at about 10:00 to do my shift as a poll watcher for the Dem. party. During the last Pres. election the Reps. tried every dirty trick in the book, flooding the poll with 5-6 GOP stooges all carrying clipboards etc. This year we were ready for anything, but it went smoothly. Polls don't close here for another 1.5 hrs, but I can tell you the exit polling showed 5 to one in Obama's favor.
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 23:21 |
Originally posted by JanusRook
I have just voted in my precinct and am happy to report I had no waiting or troubles while voting.
The two major issues for Ohio right now are limiting pay day loans, and the amount of interest that may be charged as well as how much a person is able to withdraw. The second is the building of a casino in Wilmington, Ohio. Personally I feel very strongly about the second and having worked at a casino I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with them. Also DHL is pulling out of Wilmington so that means that in a few months hundreds of people will be without jobs so I figure that the casino could fill the gap in the local economy.
Of course knowing Ohio (at least knowing those flatlanders in the horrible northeast/central regions) the issue will fail miserable and no casino will be built and by next election Ohio will have lost even more jobs.
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I did my part to help ensure casinos in Ohio. For the overall process, it was my 1st time and I found it a very easy and refreshing process.
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 23:01 |
There were no lines when I voted here in Kansas. Two referendums or whatever you want to call them in Shawnee (the city where I live) were for electing our judges, and increasing funding for schools and medical research.
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 22:32 |
Originally posted by Yiannis
Originally posted by Lipovan87
I voted for McCain despite a sever temptation to pick a third party.
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That's what usually happens to undecided voters who are tired of the 2-party system. They would like to vote for an underdog, who has no changes of success, just to challenge the status quo,still at the end they hesitate and vote for the party closer to them which holds a change of success. The "lost vote" syndrom, has happened to me as well, even I'm not satisfied I keep on voting for the socialdemocrats... |
I voted once in 2007, and I experienced the same with you Yianni, only -apparently- on the other side.
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 22:03 |
I was not inclined to vote for the local sanitation candidates and
uninformed about the judicial candidates (hence no vote is better than
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Yeah, half of my ballot I chose not to fill out. Not because they were mundane local offices (I actually looked up every candidate on the ballot). But because they had no opposition, and I refuse to vote if my choices are "selected party member" or nothing. Why even put up a veil of democracy if there is none to be had. Don't even have a vote just give them the job.
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ulrich von hutten
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 21:54 |
No queues here. The everywhere Iceland is frozen in agony at the one side, at the other side there's an atmosphere of departure.
No election here but a choice. It's like to play chess. All moves are already known but a new variant might tilt the match.
Obama and Mc Cain have different names here but their faces show the same grimaces.
Whether black or old, whether white or young, doesn't matter. You don't have the choice to move as you want on the chessboard. You will be moved. Beaten by a rook and placed beside the board for the rest of the game.
The Americans do have the feeling of beeing the centre of the world today, but do not notice that the centifugal force has throwing them on the direct way into the orbit of nowhere already.
Mc Cain or Obama, who cares? Only grains of sand, blowing into the endless storm of history. Only a blink of the eye of the eternity.
The dying baby in Somalia wan't take notice of this breath, that will rattling at its ear shortly before it's short life will find an end.
The old man, sitting in his tent at the plains, will smiling with his teethless mouth, full of mercy about this importance, avowed by important people at important speeches.
You may choose today but the match is already fiddled.
Edited by ulrich von hutten - 05-Nov-2008 at 07:11
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 19:11 |
Quiz: What does the score of Pittsburgh 23 - Washington 6 portend?
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 18:23 |
Originally posted by Lipovan87
I was not inclined to vote for the local sanitation candidates and uninformed about the judicial candidates (hence no vote is better than a bad one).
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Same here the ones I knew about I voted to stay in office. The others I rather not place a vote without prior knowledge of their abilities. As far as the Constitutional Convention I voted no, don't see the need for that, amendments can usually help out specify instances.
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 18:12 |
Originally posted by Lipovan87
I voted for McCain despite a sever temptation to pick a third party.
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That's what usually happens to undecided voters who are tired of the 2-party system. They would like to vote for an underdog, who has no changes of success, just to challenge the status quo,still at the end they hesitate and vote for the party closer to them which holds a change of success. The "lost vote" syndrom, has happened to me as well, even I'm not satisfied I keep on voting for the socialdemocrats...
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Those that can give up essential liberty to obtain a temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 17:52 |
Took me 20 minutes back and forth and to vote. About the same as in 04.
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Lipovan87
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Posted: 04-Nov-2008 at 17:33 |
Sorry, 20 minutes to actually enter the voting station, not counting time in lines there.
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