but isn't there a number for it somewhere? http://www.elynews.com/articles/2008/01/23/news/news04.txt
Love this post, Batman. I hope he can survive our polarizing endorsements, but I agree pretty much entirely. I too was born in 1969, and this is the first time I've been excited and truly hopeful about a candidate.
i'm about ten years older, and i remember feeling excited about someone in virtually every election i was eligible to vote in, starting in 1976. then it was jimmy, and in 1980 it was john anderson, for whom i campaigned during the primaries. of course, i knew he didn't have a shot in the general. '84 was an exception, and i was generally disgusted with both candidates. in '88, i felt that GHWB was perhaps the most qualified candidate, at least based on his resume, of the last half century, maybe longer. in '92 it was Tsongas. '96 i had a brief affair with Lamar Alexander, and in 2000 felt we really needed a president who could fake right and go left.. This year I had high hopes for Rudy, and I still feel he would have been an exceptional president. he's not an exceptional candidate however. but i'm an optimist, and still hold out hope that someone will inspire me- isn't that what the campaigns are supposed to be about- getting to know the candidates, what they stand for, and taking their measure as (hu)men and as leaders? there's a long way to go yet, and perhaps Obama, Romney, or McCain will step up. in the mean time, i do know i won't be voting for the (Tsu)man.
Thanks, basso. I was 11 in 1980, but I do remember the excitement people had in that election, for both Reagan and Anderson. People forget what Anderson achieved as a 3rd party candidate, which makes Nader look even more like a hopeless joke. who is (tsu)man? Is that a Clinton reference? And yeah, Rudy's situation really confuses me. He seemed to suddenly get much less nationally viable. Even his accent and mannerisms appeared more pronounced to me in the last couple of years. Hard to describe, but something very subconscious was going on between him and the voters.
I can't comment on Reggie Bush since I don't follow NFL, but the Obama lovefest is hilarious, especially the visionary part. For a man to be visionary, is it too much to ask him to be aware of what was going on within his own congressional district?
With the remaining candidates, I am still undecided in the general election. With the Democratic Primary, I am totally against Obama. I speak as someone who in the past disliked Hillary as much as anyone .
Florida really needs to do something about getting their voting fixed. Most of this is no big deal, but the bolded part is just messed up. http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...hes3008jan30,0,2197473.story?page=2&track=rss Election Day glitches cropped up across Florida during Tuesday's presidential primaries, many of which were linked to human error. While Democrats in Orange County complained about not being given the proper ballots by confused poll workers, voters in one South Florida precinct had long waits when a poll worker accidentally disabled a number of voting machines. Voters in Orange also had to wait to get the results from the Supervisor of Elections' Web site, which was not updating information for about three hours after the polls closed. Officials at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections office said late Tuesday evening that an in-house spreadsheet problem prevented the numbers from being displayed on the Web site. The software showed Hillary Clinton with a greater number of votes than was actually cast. "At that point you know something is wrong," said Woody Rodriguez, supervisor of elections attorney. The office then took down the link to the online election results. Heavier-than-expected turnout in some locations also had elections officials scrambling to make sure polling sites didn't run out of ballots. The turnout added to Tuesday's election headaches. Some Tallahassee precincts reported 70 percent turnout, and staff had to be beefed up in some Broward County precincts to handle voter crowds. Overall, though, Florida Secretary of State Kurt Browning said the high turnout -- which easily surpassed the 20 percent showing in Florida's 2004 presidential primary -- did not create any out-of-the-ordinary problems. They were mostly what Browning described as "common everyday election fare." Voting got off to a rocky start in Orange County Precinct 145 in Hunter's Creek, where Phil Marjason couldn't convince poll workers to give him a Democratic ballot. "I thought it was plain wrong," he said. Orange County Elections Supervisor Bill Cowles confirmed problems at the precinct. "I have learned that we did have a situation right at 7 a.m. this morning," Cowles wrote via e-mail to the Sentinel. "The clerk admits she made a mistake." But Orange County election officials said their records show Marjason was given a Democratic ballot and it was cast. Marjason disagreed. "You sign a piece of paper, then you walk over to the next table and they hand you a ballot," he said. "It probably shows that I signed for it, but they didn't give me a Democratic ballot." Sheneka McDonald, who also arrived at the same precinct when it first opened, spent 10 minutes trying to convince poll workers that she should have a Democratic ballot. She questioned poll workers when she was handed a Republican ballot but was told, "This is the only ballot we have." "I said, 'How can this be the only ballot?,' " McDonald recalled. "That's when the guy chimed in from the back and said the Democratic primary was in March." The poll captain eventually apologized to McDonald and told her they had forgotten to unpack all the ballots. She was later able to vote correctly. "It was a little unnerving this morning," she said. "I don't see how you forget to unpack ballots. This is what gives Florida its reputation." A number of people reported getting wrong information from Orange County poll workers. Others who encountered problems were never given an opportunity to cast a provisional ballot, an option that, according to election law, is available to everyone. John Welch, who recently moved to Orange County, tried to vote in Precinct 209 in Lockhart. He had read on the election supervisor's Web site that he could request a change of address at his new precinct and vote. When computer problems at the poll kept him from doing that, a poll worker suggested Welch try to vote at his old Seminole County precinct. "Not only did I not have time to do that, but it's also a felony to vote where you don't currently live," Welch said. There were problems outside of Orange County, as well. Sharon McDonald, a Democrat, said she was given a no-party-affiliation ballot at the Astatula Community Center in Lake County. She said she was told that the Democratic primary votes didn't count, so she did not question the ballot. "Shame on me," said McDonald, a homemaker. In Osceola County, Melissa Pennell got out of her sickbed to vote, "come heck or high water" at Precinct 1. Instead, an outdated address on the voter rolls that didn't match the correct address on her voter-identification card, kept her from casting a ballot. Poll workers kept telling her it was only a primary and that it "didn't really count anyway." "I feel disenfranchised enough with [Florida's] Democratic delegates not being seated," she said. "That's the last thing I needed to hear." Some problems were caused by voter confusion about party registration. Marta Daly of west Orange County had trouble voting Tuesday. She thought she was a Republican but had registered as an independent in 2000. More than a dozen voters in Orange, Lake, Seminole and Osceola counties claimed they had problems receiving the correct ballots. Elsewhere in the state, turnout and technical problems slowed the voting process. In Delray Beach, voting was delayed about an hour and a half at a precinct after a poll worker turned off electronic machines. Election officials had the precinct up and running by 8:45 a.m. It is not clear how many people were turned away before that.
And yet, this resides in your sig: "Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." ~ John F. Kennedy
That was from his book. Remember Beatlemania? I was sooooooo inspired. She loves me yeah yeah yeah! Yall are nothing but a bunch of googly-eyed school girls. This is VY all over again, but a political version. Wussies. I can't wait for the space exploration questions at the debate.
you must be kidding, you're delusional if you think this is on the national radar or a deciding factor with any more than 5% of americans
Really? Check out the top questions: (most popular) http://dyn.politico.com/debate/democrats/VoteForQuestion.cfm
that's a debate question, I'm talking about when people go actually vote. I was surprised that was the first question, but it won't be an issue.
