Or very nearly so :). The campaign season is over!
Or very nearly so :). The campaign season is over!
YEAH!!!
So, you're saying you agree with little Abby here?
LOL!! That's exactly how I feel!
Amen! I am not responsible for my actions toward anyone mentioning the 2014 midterm elections...
Still receiving robo-calls today, and the flyers still coming into the mailbox, but I see a light at the end of the tunnel (perhaps a train?)
I'm loving it.
I know! I saw people standing on the corners of the streets today waving political signs. Enough already! And there was someone outside the polling place marching up and down with a sign. Do they really think anyone is going to see that sign and change their mind?Quote:
Originally Posted by puglogic
Voting was anticlimatic for me - 10 minute walk to polling place (school), not a single sign carrier outside, voted in 15 minutes, bought my usual treat from the bake sale they always have there on election day and walked home.
Hearing stories of people in other states waiting hours and hours to vote - I can't imagine.
So - the 2016 stuff starts in a couple of weeks, right? ;)
Hmmmm........is a bake sale legal at a voting place? Sounds good, but I'm sort of surprised........unless it is a different area.
Times like this I'm extra glad I live out in the country. The voting place is about a mile from my house and I was in line about 5 minutes. I know in the city nearby, one place people had to wait 2-3 hours.
Got to the polls at 4:15, right after work. The polling place is a large assisted living facility. The police had placed optimistic signs: "Voter Parking/15 minute limit." It took me 45 minutes from the time I got in line until I left the building. The line was 3 times as long when I left and the cars did not stop coming.
About 10 people holding signs for candidates of different offices--Republicans to the left and Democrats to the right. It was cold out there, but they were stalwart.
Not only could you vote, you could also get a flu shot, shop at a book sale (proceeds to the facility's library) and buy something at the bake sale (proceeds to the new skateboard park in town). While I was in line to vote, a gentleman made a deal to sell his old generator, and a guy in military uniform was made to go to the front of the line by everyone else in line, so he could get back to work as he was on his dinner break. Small town living at its best.
At 9 a.m. I was number 119 (my husband 121 because he let me off at the door and had to go park). Stepped right up to the table and done within minutes.
Miss Cellane - love that small town one stop shopping! That's great!
I think the election and campaigning system has several broken parts that most Americans would like to see fixed. But it is the only game in town and I still consider voting a privilege. The controversial issues and candidates have involved maybe a record number of citizens in an education and selection process, which I think is basically good. 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.
Yes, active, direct participation in the democratic process. What a colossal waste of time. Much more effective to argue and snipe at one another on an anonymous online forum.Quote:
Originally Posted by peggy
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Good point. All of the whining about the political ads makes me wonder what ads people want to see them replaced with.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
Seems to me life is better with no ads at all, and that is generally a personal choice.
I don't like campaigning any more than anyone else, but I do like voting. The only signs in front of the school where I vote were welcoming a teacher back after having a baby and advertising the bake sale. I bought a plate of brownies and took them to the check in table. Nobody in line or coming in so I had a cup of coffee, shared the brownies, voted and was still all done in 20 minutes. They didn't even ask me for ID!
There's no doubt for me. At least Christmas ads have catchy jingles and smiling faces. Haven't seen much of either of those on TV lately.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
Oklahoma has a voter id law this time around. Yes, lot of voter fraud going on around these here parts. Must be why it is so consistently red. Can't be that many conservatives in one place.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gregg
I think even the Republicans here think it is stupid.
I don't know if folks don't know the law yet, or if our election official is playing fast and loose, but the law says you can bring a picture ID issued by the government or tribal entity, or your voter registration card which does not have a picture. At my daughter's polling place, there was a sign that said one form of id was not acceptable, you had to produce both a picture ID and your voter registration. Fortunately, she just happened to have both, but still...
She just happens to live in a predominately African American neighborhood. I'm sure that was just a coincidence.
True I've had that thought, when is a better time to retreat to a hermitage? But since it's a yearly thing, I know the holidays will be an emotional whirlwind and can plan around it (to be out of town for some of it, to not shop for anything but food for part of Nov and Dec), the campaign season I didn't prepare for well.Quote:
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.
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.
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rogar
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
But there was campaigning to win the primary.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iris lily
So glad it's all over with too!!!
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iris lily
What? No stool sample? Some one is falling down here!:0!Quote:
Originally Posted by Zoebird
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.