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'The Message'


Natter 70: Hookers and Blow  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


billytea - Nov 06, 2012 3:16:14 am PST #28884 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Florida turning blue is a very good sign. It means that pollsters have been talking to people who have already voted, and they have been adjusting their assumptions of who or who isn’t a likely voter.

I am also willing to believe that if Obama got any kind of boost from his handling of Hurricane Sandy, it could have been stronger than average in Florida.


Kat - Nov 06, 2012 3:22:48 am PST #28885 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Odd fact: even though this is a ridiculously, wastefully expensive election (at $6 billion), it's still less than Americans spent on Halloween this year ($8 billion).

I'm trying to parse which part is worse.


Sparky1 - Nov 06, 2012 3:32:13 am PST #28886 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

It was 50 minutes in line for me to vote this morning, and that was probably longer than 2008, but MD has a bunch of social issues on the ballot (same sex marriage, a dream act, gambling, etc.).


smonster - Nov 06, 2012 3:35:05 am PST #28887 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.

Xpost with Bitches - I got my boyfriend (on crutches) to the polls and voted and then to work, but there was already too long a line for me at the polling station. Which means I'm going to have to do the after work voting thing. UGGGGH.


Sophia Brooks - Nov 06, 2012 3:41:54 am PST #28888 of 30001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here

Is it weird that in NY, they son't require ID to vote? They have books with our signatures in them, sorted by address, and then you sign next to your name.


Kat - Nov 06, 2012 3:45:11 am PST #28889 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

Sophia, same in California..... But voter ID laws have been all the rage this year.


Sparky1 - Nov 06, 2012 3:46:14 am PST #28890 of 30001
Librarian Warlord

Voter ID Laws: [link]

So, not really weird, Sophia.


Liese S. - Nov 06, 2012 3:48:51 am PST #28891 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Voted! In and out in about 13 minutes. No line, and they were having trouble with the machine, so technically I don't think my vote is in the system yet. But, done! They said there'd been ten people so far, including us.


sj - Nov 06, 2012 3:59:45 am PST #28892 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

Is it weird that in NY, they son't require ID to vote? They have books with our signatures in them, sorted by address, and then you sign next to your name.

I've always considered that the norm.

I haven't voted yet, but I did read up on everything on the ballot last night. I'm not expecting much, if any, lines.


Jesse - Nov 06, 2012 4:02:18 am PST #28893 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In MA, we don't even have the signature thing! You just tell them who you are.

I'm not expecting much, if any, lines.

I think the Senate race will bring people out, but really have no idea -- there was no line for the primary at my polling place.