Over at last, over at last, thank God almighty, it's over at last

I'm glad it's over and I wasn't even in the thick of it. I'm way over here. :)

VOting was exciting for us. We had to go through a web site and fill out forms, email them and then mail hard copies to the US, then wait for the email with our official ballots, then print those out and put them into a sealed envelope then put another notice/form in there with our signatures verifying that we were who we said we were, signed by a notary or justice of the peace, and THEN we had to send it FEdEx (due to the time delays) to the US which cost us $29.

And we were given verification that our votes arrived yesterday (which is to say Monday in the US), and then we received an email confirming that our ballot had been counted.

So, pretty exciting.

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Originally Posted by Rogar

Yes, I'll be glad the hub-bub over, but have some regrets over campaign ads being replaced with Christmas marketing. I don't know which I like the least.

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I'd like to see a limit on the amount of time for the campaign. Really, it feels like two years that we've been under the onslaught. Eighteen phone calls yesterday, eleven today. Plus two flyers tucked into the front door today. Visits by campaigners both days every weekend for the past four weekends. Unending nasty political commercials on TV--if even half of them are true, none of the candidates for local office in either New Hampshire or Massachusetts should be running for office--they should all be in jail.

Cut things down to six months or six weeks. It's dragged out so long that all I can feel right now is relief that the campaign is finally over and I won't have to hear about it anymore. That's life in a "swing" state.

When people ask me who I'm voting for, I'm only half joking when I say, "The candidate that has bothered me the least with phone calls and door-to-door visits."

The Republican candidate for President wasn't even chosen until very late August so that makes it about 2 months of Presidential campaigning.

If you all don't want the party who doesn't have the White House to have adequate opportunity to vet candidates, well, to that I say: piffle. I got more mailers and phone calls (most of them Democrats, by the way) than in the general election season. Because guess what: the primaries matter.

I'd like to say I am glad this is over too.....I got what I wanted but oh vey am I glad it is over.....I can only imagine how the folks in Ohio must feel as they have been bombarded with blitzes from both sides, they must be glad it's over times 20 lol. Now on to gridlock as usual and the fiscal cliff.....Rob

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Originally Posted by Iris lily

The Republican candidate for President wasn't even chosen until very late August so that makes it about 2 months of Presidential campaigning.

If you all don't want the party who doesn't have the White House to have adequate opportunity to vet candidates, well, to that I say: piffle. I got more mailers and phone calls (most of them Democrats, by the way) than in the general election season. Because guess what: the primaries matter.

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But there was campaigning to win the primary.

So glad it's all over with too!!!

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Originally Posted by Iris lily

The Republican candidate for President wasn't even chosen until very late August so that makes it about 2 months of Presidential campaigning.

If you all don't want the party who doesn't have the White House to have adequate opportunity to vet candidates, well, to that I say: piffle. I got more mailers and phone calls (most of them Democrats, by the way) than in the general election season. Because guess what: the primaries matter.

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Absolutely, the primaries are the most critical vetting process! I have R's in the family, what my R family members have said is that the primary vetting failed for them. I'm very interested to hear what our R community members here think about this.

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Originally Posted by Zoebird

I'm glad it's over and I wasn't even in the thick of it. I'm way over here. :)

VOting was exciting for us. We had to go through a web site and fill out forms, email them and then mail hard copies to the US, then wait for the email with our official ballots, then print those out and put them into a sealed envelope then put another notice/form in there with our signatures verifying that we were who we said we were, signed by a notary or justice of the peace, and THEN we had to send it FEdEx (due to the time delays) to the US which cost us $29.

And we were given verification that our votes arrived yesterday (which is to say Monday in the US), and then we received an email confirming that our ballot had been counted.

So, pretty exciting.

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What? No stool sample? Some one is falling down here!:0!

I don't feel like watching TV, but I'm tempted to flip it on just to soak up a Verizon or Ford commercial for a change of pace.