Originally Posted By Mr X Landslide victory. No worries. Life..is..good.... No..More...Bush!!!! (and Palin can go back to Alaska and "think" that she is a party leader now..til the party devours her in due time) Sing with me! "Happy days are here again!" etc... It's all over, folks. Why not savor the moment?
Originally Posted By Mr X And by all means, if you don't have time or whatever...skip voting. Why bother, right?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I would like to echo the sentiment. Even if you do have the time, it's really just not worth it to go vote. Since the curtains have already been measured, it's a given who will win, so don't waste your time going out there and voting for Obama. If you wanted to be particularly gracious winners, I think they would allow you to go and vote for McCain, so his feelings aren't hurt too badly... (But really, I'm not kidding. Don't go vote for Obama... : )
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder And I think, kidding or not kidding, all talk like this should cease. Vote early and often, nothing is a sure thing.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros How exctly would one vote often? In my state, we're only allowed one vote for each person who registered to vote. Were you involved with ACORN? : )
Originally Posted By SuperDry No champagne yet - we've still got 8 days before Election Day. It's not over until it's over. Although the Electoral College mapper at 270towin.com still shows Obama winning for sure (as I always say, assuming that the election were held today and that the polls are correct), surprisingly it hasn't budged in at least a week. This means that all of the "undecided" states from a week ago are still that way, including OH and FL. There's no reason to lose focus this close to the finish line.
Originally Posted By barboy It's high time to mess with the Constitution and amend that thing. This electoral college business makes little sense and reminds me of tennis scoring: in both cases the candidate/player who gets the most votes/points can still lose the election/match
Originally Posted By WorldDisney I agree with barboy. I'm actually freaking out here in Australia because my absentee ballot hasnt arrived yet, but then part of me is thinking 'who cares?' at this point simply because I'm from California and even if a million Obama people decided to stay home in that state, it will still turn for Obama easily . In fact, it seems to be the most guaranteed blue states around and the biggest out of all of them. But it kind of sucks that I dont feel I have any real say for some reason although its been that way before of course. And yeah, one thing I heard that COULD happen in this race is similar to Gore/Bush back in 2000 and there's a chance even if McCain somehow pulls this out of his you know what and wins this, the odds are very high Obama will win the popular vote. We saw that happen in 2000 and it would bug the hell out of me, ESPECIALLY in this race, if that happened here. If it does, its seriously time to rethink the electorial vote process.
Originally Posted By mele Yes, I think the electoral college should be abolished. It's frustrating to hear that one candidate won the popular vote but their opponent won by the electoral vote.
Originally Posted By SuperDry WD: don't give up with your vote. You still need to get your "No on 8" vote tallied.
Originally Posted By hopemax WD, I would get someone on the phone about your ballot, ASAP. Here in Denver, it was revealed that 11,000 absentee ballots were not sent out, because of an error at the printing facility. The facility did not find the error, the elections department didn't find the error. The USPS found the error. <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_10815364" target="_blank">http://www.denverpost.com/sear...10815364</a>
Originally Posted By DAR <<Yes, I think the electoral college should be abolished. It's frustrating to hear that one candidate won the popular vote but their opponent won by the electoral vote.>> That would be cool if each state counted for the same number of votes or a one vote difference and it came down to Hawaii.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros For those of you who oppose the Electoral College, what are your feelings on the House of Representatives? It is essentially the same principal, but I don't think I've ever heard a complaint that the Representatives were accurately protraying their districts. Why should it be different for Presidential elections? Should we all have to vote on every bill that's trying to get passed? If not, where do you draw the line, and how do you make sure everybody is alright with that? Isn't that why we created the government in the first place?
Originally Posted By imadisneygal I guess the difference for me is that in some states the electoral votes can be split according to the votes, and in other states they can't. With the House there are fewer constituents per Rep than with the idea of the electoral college. The House is more, and forgive me, Representative. If a candidate earns 49% of the popular vote in a state they should get the same percentage of that's state's electoral votes. Otherwise it really does make one vote useless. I live in Texas and I'm voting loud and proud for Obama. But that won't do him a bit of good, because - as I said - I live in Texas. And all of our electoral votes are going to go to the popular vote winner, regardless of what percentage Obama garners. O.K. I admit Texas isn't a great example.
Originally Posted By barboy ///For those of you who oppose the Electoral College, what are your feelings on the House of Representatives? It is essentially the same principal,/// I need some help with this one; I don't follow you--- or maybe I just fully disagree, I'm not sure?
Originally Posted By DAR One thing to the OP of this topic. If I remember you're originally from the New England area so this might resonate. Remember earlier this year there was this juggernaut team that couldn't be stopped. Its opponent was lucky to be there and most predicted a rout that it was over before it began, but they played the game and well the rest was history.
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