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She and my dad went to a Halloween party at their church this weekend and my dad dressed up as Joe the Plumber. According to her: "bald cap, tool box, monkey wrench and shirt with Joe's Plumbing written on it."
Aw, my dad.
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I am 43 yo and still avoid the subject of politics with my mom- so I won't upset her
also, Halloween is about pretending to be what you're not
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1. Why are the ques so long in the polling stations? Are they few and far between? Is there a reason for that? The UK and US have similaer percentage turnouts, and I have always lived in high population density areas, but have never had to que, or to travel more than 5 minutes to the booth.
2. What is all this? [news.bbc.co.uk]
I know there are different ways of voting- but what is Obama doing, feeding a sheet into a computer or something. Does anyone still just put an X in a box?
3. I have spent many years defending the US to some quite anti-US people. What the hell I am going to say to them if you choose wrong?
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2. Ballots where you fill in the bubble can be read automatically by machines. It's how we score standardized tests as well. Different states do it different ways, though.
3. I say, in that case, don't bother.
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Voting machines are different from state to state. That looks like it may have been a paper ballot that was then fed into a machine, but I really can't tell. My home state has it all on a machine, which kind of scares me. I want a paper trail of my vote, damnit! Luckily mine has one. Voting absentee means I got to fill in a little circle :)
And if we choose wrong... Let's not even think about that.
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It was a curiously emotional moment for me. I don't know why it should be. I've voted in Presidential elections before. And I'm a hardened cynic. But today I felt like I might have done something that mattered.
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Well, I'm at the local polling place now and the line is easily 500 deep. To put that in context, this is the third presidential election at this location for me and there's never been any line. Ever. I've been standing here for 45 minutes and I've probably moved through 25 percent of the line.
Helpfully for nearly all of you, everyone is voting for your guy. I am starting to feel like I really shouldn't have bothered. Not only that, but the outcome is evidently such a foregone conclusion that there are no party canvassers anywhere to be seen, so no Ted Kennedy glaring at me for the third time running. Which is nice, but yet sad. The old guy and I have such a history.
On the flip side, I just got an email that the new BlackBerry is out, so I will engage in the time honored tradition of damping my sorrows with some good old fashioned consumer spending. What could be more American than that?
Final note from Little Big Horn: Even though I've seen this coming for months if not years, and to a certain extent its entirely deserved, it's still a punch in the face and I think its going to leave a mark.
I hope this guy knows what he is doing.
He sent this out in a mass email to like 30 people.
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Its all over now. I just threw away my vote on a cranky war hero who endured more than I ever could on behalf of his country in Hanoi, then forced me to tolerate his excreble campaign just so I could get an approximation of that terror, and a small town governor who knows little but is a smoking hot [insert acronym unsuitable for a family email but looks very much like MILK]. Top of the world, ma.
I feel so dejected. Off to trigger the economic recovery by purchasing a Canadian cell phone.
He's basically giving us all a play-by-play as he goes about his day and slips deeper and deeper into his funk.
Sooooo inappropriate.
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Although he does summarize McCain's campaign fairly well there.
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[I'm a ret pally though. sigh! I guess less smashing for me.]
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Oh god, I'm forwarding that to a MILLION people.
(Although "Sarah's" head is a little small.)
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In my neighborhood in Philadelphia, there aren't even long lines.
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I went to my first rally on Saturday (a massive gathering in the streets, against Prop 8) and took my daughters with me. They had me choked up the whole time because they were shouting, unprompted, "NO ON 8! NO ON HATE!" to anyone who would listen. I just had to tell them that loving couples like their Mimi and Grandma would not be allowed to be married, and they were on fire to go to the rally.
My motherly pride. Let me sho u it.
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Love from Ontario, Canada (which is currently experiencing some unseasonal warmth. And who says global warming doesn't exist?)
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I explained to her that people in Africa cannot vote for our president, even if it seems like the whole world should be able to do just that. I have really been holding back on the all out love for Obama because I have been burned before but I would love to be in Grant Park tonight! Those two early towns in NH went for Obama, and they almost always, except for 1968, go for the Repugs. We KNOW he is going to win, so let's party like its 2009!
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