Who do you plan to vote for?

[tw]

Originally Posted by marichiko

Kerry's campaign managers have decided to not even spend the money on TV advertising in Colorado. This tells me that at least SOMEONE in his group has some common sense. Colorado is hardly a swing state and what few votes it has in the electoral college inevitably go to the republicans in presidential elections.

Actually the Economist has been doing a study of swing states, one by one, for months now. Colorado was listed as a swing state.

Pennsylvannia is listed as about as close as one can get. PA still uses punch hole ballots.

[lookout123]

The election is still 45+ days, 2 debates, and 400,000,000 tons of mudslinging away but the electoral count as of today is

Bush: 311
Kerry: 223

i guess bringing the Clinton team on didn't inspire that many people. i guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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[Cyber Wolf]

Originally Posted by lookout123

The election is still 45+ days, 2 debates, and 400,000,000 tons of mudslinging away...

I'd like to see the candidates use these two debates to talk about issues that are important to ME. Up to now, neither Bush nor Kerry have really gone into depth about the issues that I really care about. I really don't care what kind of war record someone has. Military experience != ability to run a country. It would if the military controlled everything in the country but it doesn't. We (in theory) control the military. So Kerry has three Purple Hearts; kudos, but what does that have anything to do with how Kerry could, for example, fix the broken wagon that is healthcare here at home? And how does Bush's alleged National Guard experience make him someone who has a good idea how to manage the SS balloon that is very close to running out of air? My future as I see it has much less to do with what's going on on the other side of the world and much more to do with what's going on here in my backyard (especially since DC itself's a hefting stone's throw away from me). Much of the discussion has been about ultimately irrelevant points in Kerry's and Bush's personal histories and about bad-mouthing and belittling the other party and it's manner of thinking. Both sides need to come off that and talk about real issues.

Originally Posted by tw

Actually the Economist has been doing a study of swing states, one by one, for months now. Colorado was listed as a swing state.

Pennsylvannia is listed as about as close as one can get. PA still uses punch hole ballots.

I'm glad to hear that Colorado is coming up in the world. I suppose this means that I'll have to follow the state polls and see if there's a snowball's chance in hell that the Republican stranglehold on the state is weakening. I am not overly optimistic about this, nor about the possibility of electoral college reform. The idea has been bandied about as long as I've been old enough to vote (i.e. a LONG time!) with no change thus far.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by tw

Actually the Economist has been doing a study of swing states, one by one, for months now. Colorado was listed as a swing state.

Pennsylvannia is listed as about as close as one can get. PA still uses punch hole ballots.

What backwoods district are you voting in? We've had either the old style lever voting machines or the new electronic ones since the 80s.

Oh, there were a few elections I did use a punch-ballot in, but that was when I was in college, 81-83 (I switched my registration to my college address). My home district used machines.

[Kitsune]

Speaking of electronic voting: I find it cute that you all argue like your vote is going to count.

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Speaking of electronic voting: I find it cute that you all argue like your vote is going to count.

Yeah, I know. I feel like a kid whistling in the dark to keep my spirits up. I'd like to believe that I live in a Democracy, but I really don't. We should just make Bush King George IV or V and be done with it.