I'm single issue if a candidate is vocal about trying to relegate me to second class citizen status, but otherwise tend to vote for whomever I think will do the best job for the most people. For the past couple of decades that's tended to be Democrats, even though we disagree on abortion and in some cases gun control and military action.
Inara: Who's winning? Simon: I can't tell. They don't seem to be playing by any civilized rules that I know.
'Bushwhacked'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
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.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 09, 2012 5:14:21 pm PST #198 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
meara - Nov 09, 2012 5:17:29 pm PST #199 of 30001
Assuming there was a pro-gay republican, would I vote for them? Hm. Maybe if their opponent sucked. I did vote for Senator Lugar back when I lived in Indiana, and the democrat who won this year was pro-life, so who knows. But generally, single issue that will make or break is your views on gay. So...yeah.
Kat - Nov 09, 2012 5:18:35 pm PST #200 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
In total other news, I'm reading 1984 with my AP students and To Kill a Mockingbird with my 9th grade.
I have forgotten how amazing 1984. I think the last time I read it was around 1984 so I'm enjoying it so much this time around. Orwell's use of language is phenom.
My students are doing a role-play though. They have a list of 10 rules (what color to wear, how to speak to people, what stairways they may use). Each time they break a rule and it is reported, they have to write an additional page in their reflection paper. There are 4 Thought Police among them who report their misdeeds and I then announce them each day. They are seriously wigging out.
TKAM is a lovely book. Funny. But my students don't get the humor as much.
The classics are wasted on kiddies.
Tom Scola - Nov 09, 2012 5:19:25 pm PST #201 of 30001
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
I support any candidate who is for the free coinage of silver and bimetalism.
sj - Nov 09, 2012 5:21:21 pm PST #202 of 30001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I have forgotten how amazing 1984. I think the last time I read it was around 1984 so I'm enjoying it so much this time around. Orwell's use of language is phenom. I have forgotten how amazing 1984. I think the last time I read it was around 1984 so I'm enjoying it so much this time around. Orwell's use of language is phenom.I love 1984. I remember actually jumping up from my chair in shock the first time I read a certain scene.
Kat - Nov 09, 2012 5:22:56 pm PST #203 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
meara what if there were a pro-gay, antichoice republican? (Seems to difficult to conceptualize)?
I think the weird thing is that I am getting way more conservative in my old age. I trust government less, but still more than corporate america. I am way more anti-abortion than I have ever been given my experience but also way more pro-choice. I care about pro-gay more than I care about most issues, but how a candidate considers and thinks about education and pay equity matters more. Maybe most. I'm pro-immigration reform, just not in the way most people would think and I'm definitely pro-tax reform, but again, not in the way most candidates think.
I'm also pro-grammar. Any candidate who uses the subjunctive correctly rises in my esteem.
Atropa - Nov 09, 2012 5:32:40 pm PST #204 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Yikes! I need to get off my ass and find a pink or burgundy knee length crinoline. Any suggestions for sources that don't charge an arm and a leg for non-white underskirts? And are smooth and comfy to the legs?
You want the Malco Modes #582 "soft chiffon" petticoat. One on eBay in burgundy: [link]
Or there's Amazon, which has it in pink: [link]
Jessica - Nov 09, 2012 5:36:19 pm PST #205 of 30001
If I want to become a cloud of bats, does each bat need a separate vaccination?
I don't think there is any argument against abortion rights that is not, at its root, anti-woman. So in that sense, I am a single issue voter because that single issue illuminates so many others.
Consuela - Nov 09, 2012 5:39:13 pm PST #206 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
So I was talking to my little brother on the way home, and he told me the most amazing story.
He was in line to vote on Tuesday, and the woman behind him asked what to do. He said, "Well, pretty much like last time, they didn't change anything." And she said that she'd never voted before and didn't know what to do.
White woman, mid-50s.
So he tells her to go check if she's registered (she didn't even know if she was), and she was. Then she looks at the ballot, doesn't know what to do, he tells her to draw a line in the arrow for who she picks to vote for. Then he asks, "So who you going to vote for? Romney or Obama?"
She says, "Who are they?"
t facepalm
My little brother: he found a unicorn! An honest-to-god low-information voter, in (of all places) San Jose. I can't believe it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 09, 2012 5:40:49 pm PST #207 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
How in the world did she know to turn up at the poll if she hadn't watched TV, read a newspaper, or talked to anyone in the past year?