intpc exit poll

[joft]

specify further at your own risk

[Rhu]

When I exited the polling place, I had to make my way around a decrepit old lady and middle aged man with downs syndrome. They were sitting in wheel chairs facing eachother. The man was grinning in innocent bliss at the lady. The lady, for her part, was slumped in her chair. She appeared to be resisting the gravitational pull of Hell, and she appeared to be losing.

So much commentary in symbols. I'm sure one of the nurses wheeled them off a moment later, and I was the only one to witness this.

I think for a moment I almost understood why my home town sets up its polls in the lounge of a nursing home.

[Carebear]

I obviously didn't vote, so I'll boycot this poll.

[Kstonek]

I didn't vote. I didn't know about any of the people running in my area, and didn't know what issues they were for or against. I also got the impression that the GOP screwed themselves so Dems would probably take both the house and the senate. Dems may have the Senate before too long - time will tell. (I'm pretty heavily conservative and both parties are starting to lose their individual characteristics)

[digesthisickness]

i'm bored, so i too boycott this poll. i'm also feeling a touch mischievous for some reason, so i'll go ahead and boycott carebear while i'm at it.

[Carebear]

i'm bored, so i too boycott this poll. i'm also feeling a touch mischievous for some reason, so i'll go ahead and boycott carebear while i'm at it.

:cry:

[digesthisickness]

:cry:

alligator tears

[Carebear]

alligator tears

Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

[digesthisickness]

Re vera, cara mea, mea nil refert.

ha! :hug:

[Carebear]

:hug:

Alligator hug?

:unsure:

[libertarianjim]

I passed on voting. I haven't moved my registration down here to Harrisburg yet and there were no votes that were going to be close in PA to do the whole absentee thing anyway.

And I didn't care this cycle. That's a horrible thing for an ex-professor of polisci to say, I suppose. It wasn't the tenor of the campaigns (negative campaigns don't bother me in the slightest) but the quality of the candidates and the caucuses they'd be part of.

[digesthisickness]

Alligator hug?

:unsure:

if i didn't know better, i'd think you didn't trust me. shaaaame. would i hug you if i didn't care? it's not like you're a... vote or something.

[Carebear]

if i didn't know better, i'd think you didn't trust me. shaaaame. would i hug you if i didn't care? it's not like you're a... vote or something.

Nicely executed. Right on topic again.

Your boycott isn't going that well, though. :hug:

[digesthisickness]

Nicely executed. Right on topic again.

Your boycott isn't going that well, though. :hug:

i know, damnit. i should've picked someone that i actually wanted to boycott.

*looks to see who's online*

[Carebear]

i know, damnit. i should've picked someone that i actually wanted to boycott.

*looks to see who's online*

I wub you too, dig.

To prove it, I now give you my 1000th post.

This post is dedicated to you.

[digesthisickness]

I wub you too, dig.

To prove it, I now give you my 1000th post.

This post is dedicated to you.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e92/digesthisickness/AWWWhamster.gif

:hug:

[Carebear]

:lol:

(I mostly used you to get to 1000 posts, but never mind that. There was definitely some wub there too, I'm sure.)

[PiccoloNamek]

I didn't vote. Hell, I'm not even registered to vote.

[inspectorgadget]

Since everyone that replied said they didn't vote, i'll be the one that replies and admits he voted democrat all the way down...

I voted for Kinky Friedman governor of Texas
I voted democrat for every congressional position
I voted libertarian for every judge position

I'm happy with my decision. :D

[zhang_bob]

I am surprised people are not even registered to vote. In the US don`t you have to be on the electoral roll? And don`t you have to be on the electoral roll to borrow money?

[stopharian]

I am surprised people are not even registered to vote. In the US don`t you have to be on the electoral roll? And don`t you have to be on the electoral roll to borrow money?


NO

[Geoff]

Where's the option for the rest of the world who don't get a vote, and even if they did, wouldn't.

-Geoff

[cafe]

I voted mostly democrat for the first time. I don't like the republican's economic policies. They are just fine with poor and middle class people not being able to make it. I don't know if the democrats will be any better, but I thought I'd give it a go.

I hate the idea of civil liberties being infringed on in the name of national security. If we violate our citizen's rights in the name of safety, America, the idea of it, is destroyed just as surely as if we'd been nuked. I also think (duh!) that water-boarding is torture and we should not do it to anybody ever.

The republicans throw the occasional bone to the religious right, but I've decided that gay marriage is not a big hairy deal and I don't think that they have any real intentions of even trying to reduce abortion. It's not like they want more poor people being born. So . . . . yeah.

My dad will be so proud of me. If only I'd drop this creationist nonsense . . .

[NoahFence]

Voted, all democrat. The republicans are always yelling about how the democrats are all "tax and spend, tax and spend." As far as I can see, the republican agenda is "borrow and spend, borrow and spend." Then they gut all the programs for people with no money because "There's not enough in the budget, we had to cut something", then further start patting themselves on the back for being right that poor people are lazy.

I'll be voting libertarian on a lot of candidates for '08, though. The governor, for one.

[zhang_bob]

NO


So when you sign up for a new bank, how do the 65-70 % of people in the US who don't have passport prove who they are and where they live? In other word what in place preventing money laundering?

[cafe]

So when you sign up for a new bank, how do the 65-70 % of people in the US who don't have passport prove who they are and where they live? In other word what in place preventing money laundering?
Driver's license?

[Rhu]

So when you sign up for a new bank, how do the 65-70 % of people in the US who don't have passport prove who they are and where they live? In other word what in place preventing money laundering?

Driver's licenses are used in most places for most things. People who don't drive can still get photo IDs from their state departments of motor vehicles.

Also, congress just passed a kind of ridiculous law for an incredibly expensive national ID/tracking program that the states are going to drag their feet on implementing, which may end up getting used for broader purposes. If it doesn't get axed, that is.

[Jasz]

i am not allowed to vote, would have voted democratic though the de facto two-party system pisses me off

[Jennywocky]

The republicans throw the occasional bone to the religious right, but I've decided that gay marriage is not a big hairy deal and I don't think that they have any real intentions of even trying to reduce abortion. It's not like they want more poor people being born. So . . . . yeah.

I think that's true. Note that Bush generally avoided dealing with such things, if he possibly could. I remember him doing lip service to the RR back in 2000, then disgruntled them because he ignored the gay issue for a long time.

He's an ESTP. He plays the game. But if I had to guess his true "belief," he's a moderate, not a religious-righter, and hates dealing with the extremists because they basically try to tell him what to do.

There was a small stink recently -- some book by a former insider describing how Bush's team would speak disparagingly behind the backs of the Christian leaders they were dealing with.

Bush & Co denied it all, but the accusations rang true to personality... so I'd be surprised if they weren't. (I can't believe that, in private, a guy like Karl Rove has only good things to say about religious people who try to manipulate his policy. I'm naive sometimes, but I'm not a fool.)


My dad will be so proud of me. If only I'd drop this creationist nonsense . . .

Are you a seven-day literalist or a gap theoretician?

(There might be hope for you yet!)

[camille]

I live in the Bible Belt and have been thoroughly disgusted by the religious flav in our campaigns. That's probably going on everywhere though.

I did hear people saying they were just voting against the incumbents.

Someone will probably end up calling for a recount since fripping rigged the poll.:nono:

[cafe]

I think that's true. Note that Bush generally avoided dealing with such things, if he possibly could. I remember him doing lip service to the RR back in 2000, then disgruntled them because he ignored the gay issue for a long time.

He's an ESTP. He plays the game. But if I had to guess his true "belief," he's a moderate, not a religious-righter, and hates dealing with the extremists because they basically try to tell him what to do.

There was a small stink recently -- some book by a former insider describing how Bush's team would speak disparagingly behind the backs of the Christian leaders they were dealing with.

Bush & Co denied it all, but the accusations rang true to personality... so I'd be surprised if they weren't. (I can't believe that, in private, a guy like Karl Rove has only good things to say about religious people who try to manipulate his policy. I'm naive sometimes, but I'm not a fool.)



Are you a seven-day literalist or a gap theoretician?

(There might be hope for you yet!)
I don't think I'm a seven-day literalist. I don't see why "day" has to be a literal, 24 hour day, or there could not have been a gap. I think there's plenty of room for that in the text. I'm down with natural selection, but have my doubts about true mutations doing good things to a species . . . It comes down to, I know God did it, I don't know exactly how he did it. Both sides are so danged biased that they are suspect and it's not a heaven-or-hell issue, so I'm agnostic about it with creationist leanings.

[stopharian]

So when you sign up for a new bank, how do the 65-70 % of people in the US who don't have passport prove who they are and where they live? In other word what in place preventing money laundering?

The only thing that you absoulutely need is a Social Security Number. This is how you are tracked by credit agencies banks etc. For immigrants, foreign workers, etc. it is called a Tax ID number It is 9 digits always in this format xxx-xx-xxxx. With your SSN and a birth cerificate you can go to any drivers license agency and get a Photo ID.

That will generally prove who you are..I dont know of any way to prove where you live, but most banks ask for a current utility bill when you open up a new account.

nobody is required to register to vote although you could do this at the time when you get a photo ID. All men are required to register for selective service(in case of a possible wartime draft) at the age of 18. A photo id can be had by a person of any age and so can a bank account.. I think I had a checking account at arround the age of 13. Nominally most states allow people to drive at 16. Voting begins at 18. Drinking alcholic beverages 21. 18 is the age of majority however.

[NoahFence]

*Sniff sniff...sniff...* Hey...do you smell something burning?

Smells like...Republicans! :D

Poor guys. After the last few years, nobody on the other side is eager to stomp on them to put out the fire...for exactly the same reason I wouldn't stomp on a burning paper bag on my doorstep...