Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 14:32:49 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Re: electoral vote



forgive me!  i have sinned!  i just went and voted.  i feel a need to
throw up or do penance.
i didn't even piss on the ballot, not even a little.
i just felt it was important to vote for the coroner.
i'm going to go watch passion of the christ now.

darla kay

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Zo d'Axa wrote:

> what will be "substantial" ?
>
> it is rather scary that even anarchists discuss voting
> for kerry to stop bush. what does that say of the
> poltical intelligence of the general u$a public.
>
> let's open it a bit
>
> in europe since a couple of years (decades) there is a
> real shift to the (extreme) right, a
>
>
> --- DK Sanders-Weatherford <dksander-AT-uark.edu> wrote:
>
> >
> > this is what i've been saying.  i think there's a
> > substantial number of
> > folks out there who are planning to vote this time
> > (a lot of whom have
> > never voted before), and i don't think they've been
> > picked up in the
> > polls.  i wasn't sure why, thinking maybe they are
> > less likely to answer
> > pollsters' questions, less likely to be home when
> > they call?  then i saw
> > that article over at electoral-vote.com that said it
> > was the cell phones;
> > i think they had an 18-26 year old group they said
> > primarily used cell
> > phones and so had typically not been counted in the
> > polls.  some of my
> > virgin voter friends who are voting for the first
> > time have told me that
> > they refuse to answer polls on the phone, think it's
> > rude.
> >
> > you all seen the newz about the planted votes on the
> > machines in philly?
> > http://www.drudgereport.com/vote1.htm
> >
> > i was thinking about voting this time.  i "voted"
> > once before about four
> > years ago, but i ruined my ballot, so i didn't
> > really vote.  but, i
> > thought i might this time, you know, for shits and
> > giggles, but i don't
> > know if i can handle having to drive down to some
> > polling place that i
> > can't find and try to find a parking place and find
> > the door and stand in
> > the correct line for hours.  i don't think i can
> > take that kind of stress
> > this week.
> >
> > maybe i'll just cover my head with a blanket and eat
> > chocolate.
> >
> > dk
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Dave Coull wrote:
> >
> > > Not the exact vote, no, but I am predicting Kerry
> > will win
> > > by a significant margin. It looks like there is
> > going to be
> > > a substantial increase in the numbers of folk
> > voting, and
> > > that is usually bad for the incumbent. It
> > certainly was for
> > > the pro-Bush government in Spain. The opinion
> > polls got
> > > that one wrong, they underestimated the opposition
> > support
> > > because they are set up to ask folk who  _usually_
> > vote
> > > how they intend to vote, not folk who usually
> > don't. Even
> > > a substantial win for Kerry is likely to be
> > disputed by armies
> > > of lawyers saying you can't count  _that_  vote,
> > he didn't
> > > register properly, and you can't count  _that_
> > vote, he was
> > > convicted of spitting on the sidewalk fifteen
> > years ago. Then
> > > when it becomes clear that Bush really has lost
> > there will
> > > be rumours of a coup d'etat. Or maybe there won't
> > be rumours,
> > > just a coup d'etat. On the other hand, maybe it
> > will all go
> > > smoothly and there will be a smooth "handover" of
> > power.
> >
>
>
> ====> <quote> ... </unquote>
>
>
>
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