The Official U.S. Election Eve Catch-All Thread for November 1st, 2004

oh, and the Redskins lost this time...

still, mine has a Richard Mulligan reference, so it's clearly better.

My parents mailed me a picture. This is Main Street, US practically... right down the road from a single room post office and the general store. Next to little league field.

(Rhode Island)

I missed the Red Sox elation, now the anti-Bush fervor. I long for my native land.

Consider this: Every time the Boston Red Sox win the World Series in a presidential election year, Woodrow Wilson gets elected president. You can look it up: 1912 and 1916. Now the Sox have done it again. What's it mean? You read it here first: Woodrow Wilson in a landslide!

plus, he has the endorsements of Zombie Ben Franklin and Zombie Milliard Fillmore! You wouldn't turn your back on the thoughts & wishes of our zombie founding fathers, would you?

yay. thank god he takes the time to reiterate moronic stereotypes, too

Judge bars R'publican election challengers!

I was thinking about the weather this morning, actually -- but couldn't figure out why bad weather would affect one party's turnout more than another's. Is it because Democrats are more likely to be poor and thus more reliant on public transportation, which is that much more of a bitch when it's raining outside?

Please, the mobile deceased.

God, how glad I will be when this is OVER. My ballot's in (absentee, so I could look at my research while filling it out) and I'm about ready to shut off my voice mail to avoid more political phone messages.

We're all appointed to a certain election site (my current site is right around the corner) depending on our place of residence, unless you vote in advance, which you can do anywhere, but then I guess they some computer thing there to mark that you've voted.

or using a fake ID to vote in someone else's stead/if you are not enfranchised?

Couldn't you do it anyway, even if the person is registered?

Four years ago, I sat here in this building and looked at the electoral map, reflecting how for the first time since I've been following presidential politics, I didn't have one clue of who was going to win. Today, I'm looking at the electoral map, and again, I have no idea.

How did this country get so polarized? How can the US have two 49/49% elections in a row?

how is this defined? what's to stop you from residing in more than one place?

Couldn't you do it anyway, even if the person is registered?

registration requires a signature, so you'd have to copy pretty well.

part of the other thing is that people tend to live around others who think like them, for lack of a better way to put it.

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So I Googled. In so many areas the man has a brilliant record, and in exposing Iran-Contra and in busting BCCI he's done the kind of defender-of-the-people work that drives the military-industrial complex and their Republican fuckbuddies NUTS. He's been pissing them off since he came back from Vietnam, for all the right reasons: for being scholarly, persistent, intelligent and also in making the more patrician amongst Republicans, esp. Bush, look like lazy, patronising, self-serving assholes given exactly the same advantages and opportunities Kerry used to serve others first. This is consistent and maybe people will be interested in knowledge and increasing their attention spans generally as a result of all this focus and a better example set by Kerry as President.

Plus, *someone* was gonna marry the crazy rich lady. Whatever she can dish out, I'm sure he can take it.

In Finland, everyone has one official place of residence, which is registered in the population register. Of course you can reside somewhere else too, but that one place is where you vote. This is rather handy when it comes to the communal election, so you can't vote for the communal council in the commune you have your summer cottage in.

registration requires a signature, so you'd have to copy pretty well.

Okay, I guess the Finnish lawmakers have never thought that someone giving his or her ID to someone else to use it for voting purposes would be a big enough problem.

Admittedly, he hasn't done much overtly in the Senate, from a bill-writing and -haggling standpoint. Part of this has to do with not stepping on Ted's toes. Part of it may well have to do with trying to reduce his attackability in a Presidential run.

-- LE CHUCK!™ (Le-Chuc...), November 1st, 2004.

This made me die laughing for some (obvious) reason.

I'm pretty sure that Kerry's ability to credit Americans with the ability to do a fraction of the research he does all the time is no stretch to anyone who has done their own bloody homework. Which is most of us, Yalies included.

and by "hiding behind the couch", i mean, of course, playing "Baldur's Gate 2" all day and listening to the BBC broadcasting out of Powell's Bookstore...

i sincerely hope so. I could use a little Weathermen-type excitement.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Monday, November 1, 2004 7:16 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Roger, it looks like you got your wish.