Even if someone handed me the presidency, I would not take that job, so I guess I can't complain anymore.

I would take the presidency if I could also authorize the Secret Service to beat up Senators and Congresscritters who were being buttheads. "Mr. Boehner? The Secret Service is here." "Oh, crap."

KPCC has a good voter guide on their website too.

Thanks Rick! That was really interesting to read.

Washington also has ballot measures but not as much as California. I generally read the Stranger endorsements and contemplate whether I share the biases they have for the measures. Usually I do. Amusingly, so many people apparently do what the Stranger tells them to do that one candidate who was running for one of two state rep positions, in the primaries, the Stranger endorsed her but said she should've run for the other position because that incumbent was not as good, and encouraged people to write her in for that one instead. And it happened! She got enough votes that she was put on the ballot there for the general election (Kshama Sawant, so not easy to spell! And she's a socialist! And an Econ prof at the local community college! The whole thing amuses me)

So the NRA and gun dealers benefit from pushing the rumors because it helps their business.

That's pretty tidy--if guns are easier to get, but you make people think they are or are going to become harder to get, then you are right at the profit step with little work to do--I'd imagine that the people most likely to stock up on guns (as opposed to get one) are always wary the government is going to take them away, no matter which party is in charge. It's just easier to sell with the Muslim in charge.

They are definitely not stupid.

We had about a dozen proposed amendments to the state constitution. Most editorials said they were all crap that would junk up the constitution and that they should be legislative issues. So Just Say No was the motto around here.

I've got no propositions or anything to vote on, just candidates. And for most of those races, my choice is pretty obvious. I don't really like any of the Senate candidates (got my choice of pro-life anti-marriage-equality Democrat, Tea Party Republican who has said some rather alarming things about rape, or Libertarian who has never held any political office before and seems to have no platform other than "Take back the government from the bureaucrats." So, the Democrat seems to be the least bad choice. All the other races, there's either one candidate who seems like clearly the best choice to me, or it's a position with so little power that none of the candidates have really bothered to articulate their positions on anything, since it's not like they'll be able to do anything while in office.

That sounds like a DINO democrat to me. Ugg. I'd almost go for the Libertarian at that point. Maybe write in somebody? (I'm not in favor of rewarding someone with my vote if I don't like them. I've 'undervoted' on plenty of tickets because I felt a no-vote was better than a 'lesser than two evils' vote. I realize, my views are not the normal).

I'm with you.

I don't vote for DINO unless they run against Akin.

When I can't bear to vote for any of the listed candidates, I usually write in Daffy Duck.

I think I would write in for John Winchester.

Not to watch my kids, let's be clear. But I think he's learnt enough about the hard decisions--I'd let him have a shot.

eta: Oh, hey--I just changed my mind...Misha Collins gets my vote for EVERYTHING OF THE WHOLE WORLD.

That is the government we deserve...

I like this voting thing--why didn't I do it earlier?