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There you go.
In my travels, it's been Perry and Kinky, with Bell rounding it out behind and Grandma nearly non-existent.
My whole thing with the polls has been me being hopeful that the efforts to bring unlikely voters to the ballots have worked and will change things up for the better with more people involved.
If the voting numbers are greatly higher, but my chosen candidate doesn't win (it's the same as j-6's), then so be it - the efforts worked to bring people to the polls.
Damn plurality.
Anyway...Kinky or Bell and I'll be good.
There you go.
Are there any reports of early voting numbers in Texas?
I'm looking forward to a great turn out by my fellow Texans to kick Perry's ass out of Austin.
Wow....Lieberman up by 12 percentage points in latest polls.
MSNBC says CT is predicting 65 percent turnout (Wow!) of 1.9M registered voters.
If this is a totally naive question, someone please let me know.
With all the election machine problems that seem to come out on election day, why doesn't everyone use a good ol' desktop Windows-based PC with a 'qwerty' keyboard, a mouse, and some standardized election software as their voting weapon of choice?
Instead, we have octogenarian election volunteers trying to explain this rotary dial gizmo to people who see this device only on their chosen voting day. Why not use a device that Americans are familiar with?
Last edited by j-6; 11-07-2006 at 11:50 AM. Reason: forgot about the mouse
AFter reading the stories of polling malfunctions, I can honestly say that we have to be the dumbest group of human beings ever gathered under one single flag.
the Repug dirty trix are at tsunami levels:
November 7, 2006
Repeat Calls Spur a Debate Over Tactics
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and CARL HULSE
Karyn Hollis, an English professor at Villanova University outside Philadelphia, said the same computerized calls had been ringing her telephone as often as five times a day for more than a week.
They all start with a simple, if somewhat ambiguous, statement: “ o, I’m calling with information about Lois Murphy,” a Pennsylvania Democrat who is the challenger in one of the hottest House races. That opening sounds “kind of positive in tone,” Ms. Hollis said. But the message quickly turns negative, blasting Ms. Murphy’s political views. After she hangs up, the phone rings again later with the same message. And again. And again.
The calls are part of a telephone blitz that the Republican Party has unleashed in several dozen races that are likely to determine control of the House in Tuesday’s elections. And the repeat calls to the same homes have set off a new furor over campaign tactics, with the Democrats claiming the calls violate federal communications rules and are tantamount to harassment.
Ms. Murphy and other Democrats say they have been flooded with complaints from irritated voters who think that the calls are coming from the candidates themselves. Many of the voters had hung up before the message was over, and never heard that it was produced by the Republican Party.
Democratic leaders contend that the messages violate federal rules that require groups making automated calls to identify themselves at the outset. And the National Republican Congressional Committee, which has financed the calls, agreed on Sunday to quit making some of them in New Hampshire, where a state law limits who can receive computerized phone messages.
Ed Patru, a committee spokesman, said the phone campaign complied with federal law and was “drawing contrasts” between the candidates. “There’s no statutory requirement that our phone calls be complimentary to Democrats,” Mr. Patru added.
Federal filings indicate that the committee has spent about $2 million on phone calls in the last week.
But Democratic officials say they fear the saturation calling is just a tactic to irritate voters and discourage them from going to the polls.
“Make no mistake about it,” said Representative Rahm Emanuel, an Illinois Democrat who is leading his party’s effort to retake the House. “This is a dirty trick, one they have pulled before, one they have gotten caught on, and they are still doing it.”
Mr. Emanuel was referring to past fights over last-minute phone campaigns, particularly in New Hampshire, where three Republican officials were convicted of campaign violations stemming from an effort in 2002 to jam phone lines used by the Democratic Party to get out the vote.
Complaints about the recent Republican calls first surfaced about a week ago in a smattering of states. Rozanne Ronen, who lives in a Chicago suburb, said she had gotten more than 20 of the calls, all relating to the same House race. “To me, it’s just harassment,” she said.
New York Democratic Party officials complained Monday that the calls also had been made on Sunday and Monday to voters in four hotly contested House districts.
The Democrats say that a few calls have been made in the early morning or middle of night, and that some voters received several calls minutes apart. Republican officials said that would have happened only if there was a computer glitch.
Others, like Ms. Hollis, the Villanova professor, say they have filed complaints with the Federal Communications Commission. Its rules on automated calls require that callers state their iden y at the beginning of the message. These calls end with a disclaimer that they were paid for by the Republican committee; no identification is made at the start of the message.
Political messages are exempt from the federal do-not-call rules meant to discourage unwanted sales pitches. But a New Hampshire law prohibits making automated calls to people who are on the do-not-call list. The Republican committee agreed on Sunday to halt calls there at the urging of the state attorney general.
David Kaplan, a registered Republican in Connecticut who has received more than two dozen of the calls, said he was so annoyed that the Republicans might “have shot themselves in the leg” in terms of winning his vote.
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Repug-nant mother ers, every last one of you.
The above article and the content of the above article is dumb.
If anybody knows dumb, it would be js. Don't argue with expertise.
Yes, I recognize it in damn near everyone of your posts.
You should've heard some of the whacky Dem voters this morning on Air America. One guy called up to report how su ious it was that the registration table (that is in the same spot every year) had been moved from one side of the room to the other. I you not.
The fix is in people. The Republicans are moving the registration tables to a different part of the room.
Alright, I'm getting ready to go vote.
I hope I don't have any problems with the electronic voting machines, like it not working, changing my vote or becoming self-aware and asking me to kill Sarah Connor.
Man, with the Republicans moving tables plus the government planning another terrorist attack on American soil, this country sure is backwards........isn't that right Dan?You should've heard some of the whacky Dem voters this morning on Air America. One guy called up to report how su ious it was that the registration table (that is in the same spot every year) had been moved from one side of the room to the other. I you not.
The fix is in people. The Republicans are moving the registration tables to a different part of the room.
This democratic in bent senator for Michigan is not doing so well in this interview.
Stabenow on MSNBC, BTW.
"The above article and the content of the above article".
That's brilliant!
Move over Einstein.
I guarantee there will be elections that will not be settled today.
Just got back from voting and here was my experience.
Nothing shady!
I walked (like I do on Election Day) to NW Crossing Elementary and had one campaign worker sitting in the shade with three others thank me for voting, so I went and had all four talk to me about their candidates and why they were voting for them and why I should [most of my decisions were made already, but after asking some pointed questions about one of the races for County Court (a race in which I wasn't going to vote on since I didn't know much about the candidates), I was convinced to vote by talking with one of the campaigners who showed me some articles about her candidate that talked about what we talked about].
Spoke with all four for about 5-10 minutes, then walked inside. There were about 15 names on the list of people who didn't have their voter cards (of which I couldn't find mine either), and the poll workers said that voter traffic had been brisk and a little less than the Presidential Election, but more than previous mid-terms.
I flirted with the hot poll worker for a minute or so - and yes, she was hot and about 25 years old.
Same machine as I had voted on in the past, no problems with changing votes or the like.
I'd just like thank everyone for their support and I know in the end you'll come to appreciate the toll roads.
Good one
You had that one coming. No hard feelings. All in good fun.
I keep seeing MSNBC showing Texas as having voting problems, but I can't find any issues.
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