Here's hoping that Question 3 fails -- an initiative to set the state sales tax back to 3%... in a year when the state has already made a bunch of painful cuts to public spending.

I know, right?? Fucking people.

Signed,

A Tax-and-Spend Democrat

Megan, I hear ya--I don't think any of my friends are running yet, but the few republicans I have on my fb friendslist are all from college (I have an excoworker who's a teapartyer, but keeps it quiet). The college folk are pretty hardcore, working for reps an stuff. Luckily, since I did theater, most of mine are uber-lib.

Well, on his Facebook page he's a Goldwater Republican, but I think that really just means he wishes we were back in the 50s.

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It's not that I'm totally opposed to lowering the sales tax -- for one thing, it hits poor people a whole lot harder. The people behind the question would scream the loudest if there was a valid proposal to lower the sales tax i and raise something else to make up for the loss.

Left the house at 5:10, stopped by the elementary to vote and was in the pool by 5:30. Sweet! I was talking to one of the judges, and she said it had been a steady stream all day, they never had more than a handful in line, but the machines were never vacant. Which is nice, considering the only real contest is for governor, but that's a loaded one.

Holy crap -- I just got a personalized email from my favorite store in New York, and I REALLY REALLY want one of the dresses she included! Too bad it's way too expensive, and she only made 4, so it will never be on sale.

The polls closed an hour ago, and there are no results yet! I hate waiting! And all our voting is touch-screen, so there is no need for any paper-counting related delays.

Oh man, someone out there is playing dirty. I'm still getting robocalls. Listening to them tonight, @7:15, I get one from my House rep, saying something about how the polls are open until 8, that's there are calls going around to dems implying they don't need to vote, this is an attempt at voter disenfranchisement, etc. I'm like Wha? @7:20 I have a very weird vague message about "O'Malley and Obama have gotten the job done, everything is fine and all that's left to do is watch it on tv" with no identification or affiliation given. Pretty sure that's what prompted the earlier robocall. BAD FUCKING FORM. Jesus christ. I hate people.

I haven't gotten a single robocall this time around. Huh. I wonder if they figured out I'm not actually a Republican.

Of course, I also got NY voting materials, with my MA address on them...