Don't forget to Vote!

A reminder to those who will vote is a waste of time.

A reminder to those that won't vote is a waste of time.

Ergo, this thread is a waste of time.

 Well, consider yourself as one of the people who will not be counted then.

Of course, I am also aware many people have access to this forum from other countries and some people don't meet the age requirement to vote.  If you are one of these people, then I apologize.

Oh my god! I need to vote! Is it too late? Where should I go? For whom should I vote?! Panic!!!

PS: j/k. I'm German. I'm rather amused by the voting antics in the US.

Oh, you're German?

Well no wonder...

(Note: I'm not serious.)

No... Don't bother voting, just give up with this silly idea of electing your own leaders and the British will take over again. 

Your all be much happier when you don't have to worry. We will dispatch a new viceroy as soon as you agree to capitulate. 

We've got over a 100 million voters, which leaves plenty of room for people who game too much and might have forgotten it's Tuesday, much less *this* Tuesday. I'm Floridian (native), and I vote consistently in local elections also, so I am *painfully* aware of what a difference just a few votes can make.

One of the things that really amazes many Europeans about our voting is just how much of it we do. Everyone's historically worked up about the presidency, but we're looking at a possibly amazing change in Congress, many of our state legislatures could get a shakeup if the coattail effect is very strong, and we have an army of state and local ballot initiatives.

The whole election is a sham.   And even if it wasn't, it really doesn't matter which candidate gets in.  I'm boycotting.

lol,

the british take over again.:)

In IL, i vote 4 or maybe 5 times. its what we do up here.

I'm waiting for the war against China.

Just remember not to complain about anything government does or doesn't do. No votey, no gripey.

Would it be so bad? No just pay your taxes and don't worry about representation. It only leads to arguments anyway.

Except Utah. We don't really fancy that one. 

Obama's won Dixieville Notch with over 70% of the vote.  Admittedly there were only 21 people voting, but stil...

Absolutely I'm going to gripe.  I'm going to gripe that they rigged the elections, and subcontracted the tallying process to foreign companies.

If I could ask someone on the inside. 

I'm thinking about placing a bet on how many of the following states McCain will win.

I tempted to bet either 1 or 2. Leaning toward one (Virginia) but not sure about Florida?

Not much of a choice

1) a socilist at best, or a communist at worst

2) a Bush clone

The lesser of two evils is still evil.  This country is in deep poo the next 4 years no matter who wins.

Do you people really believe half the things you post when it comes to this thread, or are you just joking around? Rigged elections, wars with china, obama being a socialist? I mean seriously turn off the Fox News and pick up a paper...

Obama is not near to being a socialist, in europe he would be considerd a conservative. Also it would not be bad if he was one. The cold war is over you can drop you fear of socialism and communism now! (like right now)

Edit: Also, to be fair Mcain is not a Bush 2.0

I'm going to go vote, but I really do not care who wins the Presidency. Blah to both of them! The congressional voting is where the real changes are made anyway. By the way, we really need to do something about getting rid of a 2-party system. All we end up with is a choice between 2 people who most of us would really rather not have in charge. It ends up being a pick between the lesser of two evils.

In Britain we sort of have a three party system but one hasn't been elected for about a century.  There's nothing saying that we have to have two or three parties or whatever but it seems to have settled into a two and a half party system

No, but his campaign staff sure the frak are 2004 redux. Idiots. If I were a McCain supporter that "idiots" would be prefaced with a long string of profanity.

I'm Floridian, politics is my sports, but I've never been a betting man. That said, I have a hunch that Florida is more likely to go for McCain than Virginia is. The wallet-vote factor in Virginia includes proximity to DC, and hence employment and contracting opportunities from the coming fiscal stimulus packages. Still, Florida is already very different than it was in 2004--the Hispanic vote is no longer solidly dominated by Cuban right-wingers and a big share of our retirees have seen big personal economic losses and serious threats to employment for their kids & grandkids. It's a dicey call, so I suppose betting makes sense if you like throwing down money that might be for nothing.

That has been pretty much the story for me since my first election in 1984. At least this time my party's nominee was not at or near the bottom of my list from the primaries (I supported Bill Richardson early on). What I really want to see from folks like Leo is a nation-wide effort to get a constitutional amendment that changes the House from single-member, winner-take-all districts to a party-based system. We might end up looking a lot like the 2.5-party system Astrath describes, but at least it would be a result of voter behavior and not a crude structrual accident.

Edit: quoting still seems broken if you try to mix selectins with attributed blocks.

I'd bet on two-it may be three, but I wouldn't count on it.

Do you have to choose specific states, though?  Because that makes it more challenging, obviously.

I'm just glad its almost over.  I can finally start watching the news again...... I can't stand either one of the canidates.

Congress on the other hand does seem to be something to look at.

We know Obama will win it is only a question of by how much. If it is a narrow victory the "death card" will be played for sure. Personally I expect him to exceed 320 EVs and I think he has a good chance of getting 350+ to put him in the super majority area.

The NYT has a great dashboard for the results, You can get it here.

I just hope the country stops going bannas after the election is over.

Then maybe the candidate that wins can focus less on flinging sh*t and more on the issues gripping our country and the world at large.

Wow it looks like it might be a sweep in the Congress for blue as well - cool beans. It also appears Obama will in fact go into super majority area and beyond. Woohoo!!! He is owning in the key States, minus Montana - but by a hair. He should be able to pull it off however. Sadly, you just knew the South was going to spoil the party.

Well, I was hoping Tina Fey would have a great SNL character for the next four years.  She was really good at acting out Sarah Palin.