Lee, I'm sorry your day has sucked so far.
I'll be voting in my town's Town Hall. I could vote today, but I'll be staffing a voter information booth outside the town hall Saturday morning, so I figure I'll just go on in when my shift is done. Plus, the farmer's market is right next door on Saturdays, so I'm planning on making a "yay, small town + civic engagement = delightful" morning of it all. Then a wine tasting that afternoon and dinner out with some friends afterwards. Saturday's shaping up nicely.
Re: in jokes, Paul, Cass, and Jilli.
Lee, damn. That's just. Damn.
I'm not blanket anti-war, and I'm in favor all sorts of things that taxes require, such as actual proper socialized medicine and all, but for his current party, Johnson's not too bad.
and I'm in favor all sorts of things that taxes require, such as actual proper socialized medicine and all
Roads, fire departments... Little things.
Did we know that Roseanne Barr is on the ballot for President?
I just spent five minutes looking for the hair clip I was
sure
I had on my shirt or skirt. It's in my hair.
Liese, I like your choices and agree with you.
Eliminating the electoral college would only change
who
feels like voting is pointless. Probably to "everyone west of the Mississippi."
I just realized that I left my umbrella on the bathroom floor at home, and of course, it's now raining.
I brought my umbrella to work.
Then at lunch I checked my Weather Channel app and it said 10% chance of rain for the next hour, so I didn't take my umbrella to lunch. So I got rained on on my way back.
Timelies all!
Gary's the one I have the most inside jokes with, by a large margin.(We jokingly talk about our "shared brain")
Eliminating the electoral college would only change who feels like voting is pointless. Probably to "everyone west of the Mississippi."
Yup. And selfishly, I have no desire to see NYC become the new Ohio in terms of being battered to death with campaign ads, so I'm all in favor of the current system.
Every rural/farming state would go nuts. Isn't that why they went with the Electoral College, to keep the cities and industrial states from ruling?
Eliminating the electoral college would only change who feels like voting is pointless. Probably to "everyone west of the Mississippi."
I'm in favour of some system that at least partitions voters, though I'd prefer it evenly weighted (and with boundaries drawn by a nonpartisan commission, but that's another matter). Imagine the recount furore following the 2000 election, but with the whole country in play instead of just one state.
You guys really should give preferential voting a try. However, going on the Australian experience, I'm not sure that it would challenge the two-party system. We have a handful of independents in the House at the moment, and this is something of a high point, historically. America's bigger though, so maybe you'd get the odd regional bunch that managed some success.
We do get third parties and independents turn up regularly in the Senate, where they frequently hold the balance of power; but that's because Senate elections use proportional voting (each state elects six Senators at a time).
