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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#259926: Nov 5th 2018 at 9:38:33 AM

So if you mail in your ballot do you get your sticker in the mail or what?

Oh really when?
Friendperson Since: May, 2018
#259927: Nov 5th 2018 at 9:40:09 AM

You get the satisfaction of having done your civic duty, no matter who you voted for.

Swanpride Since: Jun, 2013
#259928: Nov 5th 2018 at 9:42:30 AM

I personally like voting on election day (because you never know what happens in the last days before the actual election), but then, it is a really relaxing experience over here. Just a little stroll up the street, less than five minutes waiting time if any at all, and then you can decide where to make your cross in peace. And you might meet someone you know on your way.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#259929: Nov 5th 2018 at 9:43:26 AM

[up][up][up]Nope. If you're an overseas voter you instead have the honor of paying for overseas delivery. Not exactly cheap, especially if you splurge for express delivery.

Edited by M84 on Nov 6th 2018 at 1:43:36 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#259930: Nov 5th 2018 at 9:45:46 AM

But getting the I Voted sticker is like 80% of the reason to go vote.

Oh really when?
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#259931: Nov 5th 2018 at 9:51:30 AM

We all have to make sacrifices for our country. I can live with not getting a sticker.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#259932: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:03:38 AM

My irrational fear with sending in votes is that someone might intercept my mail and change my choice without my knowledge,doing it at the polling station reassures me somewhat

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Parable Since: Aug, 2009
#259933: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:05:18 AM

Mail ballots come with the sticker in California.

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#259934: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:09:34 AM

Well in my case I’m not voting mostly because I was busy the day my votes were due (not with work mind you-I had homework) and Also because I live in Oregon, a solid blue state.

Overall I am slightly apathetic because I’m a staunch conservative, but I also am not very fond of the party’s recent behavior so I don’t really wanna vote for them.

Edited by Protagonist506 on Nov 5th 2018 at 10:10:07 AM

Leviticus 19:34
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#259935: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:14:09 AM

[up]So basically you didn't vote because you couldn't be bothered? Not even an early vote or an absentee ballot?

I mean, that is your right, sure. But if we lose the House, you don't get to complain.

Edited by kkhohoho on Nov 5th 2018 at 12:14:55 PM

Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#259937: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:20:11 AM

[up]Democrats. And yes, I know you're not a Democrat. But I'm assuming you don't want the Republicans as they currently stand to win either.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#259938: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:49:00 AM

Russian legislators are in the US to "monitor" the midterm elections

Added the air quotes because we know thats a blatant lie,it's far more likely they are involved in spywork,I'd give them the boot for the cheek of showing up,especially after their meddling in the US elections,it's like popping round to visit someone after you've burgled the house

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#259939: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:52:45 AM

Which is part of why I’m not voting ‘’for’’ the Republicans. The DNC would still need to move a little to the right before I voted for them.

Leviticus 19:34
kkhohoho (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#259940: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:54:47 AM

[up]Except by not voting Dem, you're still helping the Republicans. One less vote for the Dems means one less vote they could use to take back the House.

unknowing from somewhere.. Since: Mar, 2014
#259941: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:57:16 AM

He is a republican and by not voting is party he is denying help in any way, he dosent need to do more, you know?.

"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"
Draghinazzo (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: I get a feeling so complicated...
#259942: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:58:42 AM

I've seen multiple thinkpieces by certain conservatives telling people to vote Blue because in addition to all the obvious reasons, in the long term it will force the GOP to change to a less toxic and more reasonable center-right party, as opposed to the far-right one they have effectively become now.

Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#259943: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:58:57 AM

By not voting he's not helping anyone really

[up][up]

Edited by Ultimatum on Nov 5th 2018 at 10:59:19 AM

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M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#259944: Nov 5th 2018 at 10:59:25 AM

It's not like they have to vote Blue for the rest of their life. Just until the GOP gets their collective heads out of their collective asses...however long that takes.

Edited by M84 on Nov 6th 2018 at 3:00:01 AM

Disgusted, but not surprised
Ultimatum Disasturbator from the Amiga Forest (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
Disasturbator
#259945: Nov 5th 2018 at 11:01:39 AM

The GOP has their head so far up their collective ass it's stuck

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Protagonist506 from Oregon Since: Dec, 2013 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
#259946: Nov 5th 2018 at 11:03:44 AM

@Ultimatum A saying I like is “head stuck so far up their asses it’s back on their shoulders”.

Leviticus 19:34
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#259947: Nov 5th 2018 at 11:21:19 AM

By not voting, he is helping us. Because, as he noted, he's a Republican.

Imagine 50 Red voters and 50 Blue. By Protagonist abstaining, the numbers shift to 49-50. We didn't gain a vote but the numbers still shifted +1 in our favor regardless.

A +2 shift (49-51) would be preferable, but every little bit still helps. Protagonist was never going to vote for us anyway, so we haven't lost anything by him refusing to vote for his party too.

I'll take what I can get. If he was a Democrat, I'd be all about trying to convince him of the importance of voting. But as is, he's helping us to the degree that he's comfortable with by depriving the Republicans of a vote they should by all rights have been guaranteed, and that's good enough for me.

Edited by TobiasDrake on Nov 5th 2018 at 12:22:48 PM

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SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#259948: Nov 5th 2018 at 11:33:18 AM

Just saw some rallies by Obama and Trump (reported on Swiss news). I noted that Trump's rally was almost entirely white people and also mostly (but less overwhelmingly) men. Obama's rally was half black and half white and mostly female.

Telling, I must say.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#259949: Nov 5th 2018 at 11:34:41 AM

Gallup's final measure of Trump's approval before Tuesday is 40%/54%, unchanged from last week. Should be noted (again) that previous Presidents with higher net approval ratings took substantial losses in their first Midterm.

Edited by Rationalinsanity on Nov 5th 2018 at 3:59:14 PM

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TroperOnAStickV2 Call me Stick from Redneck country Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Call me Stick
#259950: Nov 5th 2018 at 11:39:08 AM

Is there any kind of trend for net low approval ratings? I know, it should be obvious, but how much does it affect things?

Hopefully I'll feel confident to change my avatar off this scumbag soon. Apologies to any scumbags I insulted.

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