Today is the biannual *proof* that the undead exist! Because THEY WILL be voting throughout the land(USA) today. So, in order to fight the corrupt political machines and vile necromancers......GET OUT and VOTE!!

Vote early, vote often, vote left, or vote right,,,,,but vote.

isnt that every politician [img]tongue.gif[/img] :D .

anyways, i hope democrats will get in power. US is becoming too conservative to my taste.

[ 11-07-2006, 12:49 PM: Message edited by: Harkoliar ]

Declare me your emperor, and I will stop everyone else from making the US a worse place!

So.... do we have a winner yet?

Not for another few hours... after 8 CA time, 11 Eastern.

Cast my votes already... [img]smile.gif[/img]

Looks like Hillary is a big winner.

Speaking of her, apparently one of my Lecturers have told me that the show "Commander and Chief" being shown in the US was actually a marketing gimick to determine how Americans would like to watch a female president running the show. A tv show would assess the popularity on how people would percieve how a Female president would be accepted.

Looks like the Democrats won!

<font color=plum>Yes they did - and this is a good thing for our current government. It is always better for the people when the Congress and White House are controlled by opposing parties. That way, there has to be discussion, debates and compromise on issues rather than the President receiving rubber-stamped carte' blanche for his policies. This is true regardless of which party the President belongs to.

As for Hillary running for President in 2008, I think America IS getting closer to accepting the concept of a female President. My good buddy CP - who is a Political Science major and devout follower of politics - insists Hillary WON'T be the Democratic Nominee and complains she only gets mentioned because the Repugs are still "obsessed" with the Clinton era.

While CP certainly knows more about politics than I do (and follows them much more closely than I ever will), I see either Hillary or Obama (Senator from Ohio, IIRC) as being the front-runners to represent the Democrats in 2008. If they don't get the Presidential nod, I believe one of them will almost certainly be the VP Candidate.</font>

<font color=plum>Getting back on topic of "The Vote", I believe it is one of the greatest privileges we have in this country. Every single citizen can have an impact and a voice in who represents us and who runs the country. It's no secret that I'm a hardcore, fundamentalist conservative - but I am registered as Independent instead of Republican. And I vote for individuals rather than party candidates.

I have to admit I even surprised myself last Tuesday. As I reviewed the choices I had made, I realized that fully 3/4 of the votes I cast were for Democrats. But I also realized these were the individuals I wanted to represent my interests on the local, state and federal level and I had no regrets in the choices made.</font>

Awesome stuff Cerek.

I'm glad Vermont and Connecticut each elected independents as Senators too.

1. Nod to the "opposing factions" notion.

2. Obama is from Illinois, Chicago in fact, and I have just recently learned that he has mob ties. Of course, every politician from Illinois is fundamentally corrupt. Our former governer is going to jail, our current governor will probably be prosecuted when his term ends (though we just did re-elect him). I never in all my years have seen a place so corrupt. My wife's a prosecutor -- I get pulled over, I tell the cop, he lets me go. It's the system here. Mostly socialist and 100% corrupt as all hell.

So, we'll see how Mr. African-American Poster-Boy Obama does, but I'm here to tell you, he's diiiiirty.

[ 11-13-2006, 11:39 AM: Message edited by: Timber Loftis ]

Vermont's "independent" was a long-time republican that broke ties with the red party when they got control of congress. I think he realized that any earthy crunchy Vermonter has to be a little bit too hippie to be Republican. But, it's not like he originally was elected as an independent.

With Lieberman in CT, he only went "rogue independent" after he lost to another
democrat in the primaries -- he too is a long-time incumbent. And he still promises to break bread with the Democratic caucus. I like him, though, and I like it that he lost in the primaries and came back to win.