The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread

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From Pat Buchanan's magazine: GOP Must Go. Immigration/amnesty is their big issue, but hey, you take what you can get.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:31 (seventeen years ago) link

what's a little fascism among friends?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:33 (seventeen years ago) link

we're f----d

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link

what's that website for people recording their voting process?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link

From Pat Buchanan's magazine: GOP Must Go. Immigration/amnesty is their big issue, but hey, you take what you can get.

sounds like any dem editorial until you get to the immigration stuff - things is getting weird.

― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

It's oh-so-comforting to hear that even on this board people are voting Republican, and barely better, Green.

In New York, every office is almost always a Dem lock in the general election. Tho if I had to vote for Hillary to give the Dems a majority, it still wouldn't happen. And the Green Senate candidate was antiwar. And fuuuuuck the spineless Dems.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I wonder how much of this record turnout consists of gen xyz'ers and such.

Wondering this same thing myself. All I saw were ancients, but, as I said, my voting machine was in a rest/nursing home.

I ended up voting for at least one Republican candidate in a local election precisely because she was the only candidate who ran a non-slanderous campaign. Thinking I maybe should've thought that through more, but whatev, local KY politics will never be anything short of hilarious.

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Local politics around here are wonderfully weird. The Libertarians trash the GOP and the Democrats mostly shrug and accept not winning.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I voted when the polls opened this morning, and it was very quiet and sparsely attended. The only people voting were older folks, but hopefully that just means that most people opted to vote later today.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

ah, memories

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Gore Vidal: "We’re facing the most important election in my lifetime—which does not quite extend back to that of Abraham Lincoln, but it’s pretty close."

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Really long lines at my precinct in Nashville (Sevier Park), where I also cast my first vote, inauspiciouly for Dukakis. As the neighborhood is half black/half lefty white gentrifiers, and hearing that turnout is heavy in urban TN, that's good for Ford. I noticed that more than a few voters spent barely ten seconds on the eight page ballot, which is cluttered with a lot of Metro charter crap and some local, unopposed races.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

exit polls showing va, mt, mo, nj w/ strong repub leads, tn, md very very tight, perdue ahead in ga

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

oh you

― ath (ath), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link

interesting broder piece (w/ some slightly dubious claims including a line about welfare reform i'm sure will OUTRAGE some ilxors) about 94, if o'reilly or anyone seriously try to spin that 'low turnout' line do an a-b comparison w/ 94 turnout. thank god for early voting.

vote carcetti yall

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

hahaha. exit polls are embargoed 'til 5pm est at least!

yeah, carcetti did great things for that city, he's looking at the governor's office..

― dar1a g (daria g), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

hand collection of voter protection link & phone numbers to report any ballot site shenanigans.

There was a report today on local radio that a coupla folks had set up a "temporary ballot drop site" with a cardboard box on the roadside somewhere in SE Portland. The host advised the caller to call the cops next.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:15 (seventeen years ago) link

http://americablog.blogspot.com/santorumx.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

ohhhh blount you dick

― ^@^ (map), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

http://mayohantan.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/.pond/the_mouth_of_sauron.jpg.w300h180.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

(Hey, he's the one who invoked Tolkien as a reelection theme...)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

We (central KY) had new voting machines, which I found odd since we have already had automated voting machines since like goddamn 96, while just a couple counties away they are still on paper ballots.

― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I liked that I had the old school ballots. Diebold makes me v. nervous.

― Beth S. (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

C4 news over here is running a story that Rummy is out tomorrow two people have turned down the job of replacing him and Sen. John Warner is going to replace him.

any other sources?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:20 (seventeen years ago) link

Yup. No paper trail for Diebold. I filed a complaint about that during the primaries.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

x-post -- Some crackpipe somewhere?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link

just checking, it was a throwaway one liner in a long overview piece

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Off to dentist, will check back in later...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Heavy rain all day in Rep-leaning east TN, while dry in the west. Don't know if it'll affect turnout all that much, but it might slightly shorten Ford's not-so-great odds.

― Dickerson Pike (Dickerson Pike), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

lolz for stupid headlines:

"Campaign Nears Climax As Polls Tighten"

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

Surprise, surprise.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

http://webpages.charter.net/micah/vote.jpg

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Byron York, NRO whitehouse correspondent, clearly wasn't expecting to do a stand up interview on the news today. he has his brooks brothers suit, shirt and tie, and wearing jeans on his bottom half.

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20061107/capt.5b4d6e6919914f95b5f5e359da9c7ce7.governor_friedman_txeg102.jpg?x=258&y=345&sig=JJ3UQIkZT2S.3LJjuPTIZg--

Kinky out on the trail, kissin' doggies

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

and when are people going to start demanding Instant Runoff Voting so voters don't have to worry about sacrificing their vote for the sake of strategy?

already implemented in san francisco; on the ballot in oakland.

― viborg (viborg), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:52 (seventeen years ago) link

IRV = STV?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

no, I think that's the standard uniform of the Modern Conservative Internet Dork (xp)

I voted for what may be the last time on an old big-handle-and-toggle machine - any nyc'ers know when we go high-tech?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

i am really terrified i wont be able to vote. i went this morning but there was a 2-hour wait and i had to get to work. :/ :/ :/

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Just got back from voting, a pleasant stroll two blocks to the poll. New Diebold machines, which prompted my wife to say loudly, "Oh, Diebold, I guess I know who's going to win here." Up jumped this guy in a suit, a Diebold rep we presume, to walk her through the process and show her all the safety features that prove no fraud, backup paper ballot, etc.

― Django Blowhardt (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

What's with poll closing at 7pm across the US, how are people going to vote after work?

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i am really terrified i wont be able to vote.

you will be. if you're in line by 8pm local time, you will be able to vote.

polls are supposed to say open til 8.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

If you're there before they close up shop (7pm, I think), they have to let you vote, right?

This might be able to help:

http://www.vote411.org/

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

vote by mail is awesome.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

poll closing times vary widely by state and municipality. in NYC, polls are open 6 AM - 9 PM.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

That website will tell you when your polls close, according to state/polling place.

― molly d (mollyd), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

vote by mail would be a great way to piss off karl rove, but i have a lot of problems with that idea

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Air America newsbreak just mentioned that there are efforts in Denver to keep the polls open two hours longer than usual.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:02 (seventeen years ago) link

i voted before 9 am at PS 139 in brooklyn but it was straight-up in-and-out, ten minutes tops. i did some poll-watching for the sept. primaries and it's not a hugely packed polling place to begin with (some EDs had a turnout of about fifteen people, though presumably there'll be quite a bit more this time around).

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link

vote by mail would be a great way to piss off karl rove, but i have a lot of problems with that idea

??????????

― don weiner (don weiner), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

oh yeah, and dig this shit:

batshit rightwing radio loony Laura Ingraham is now asking her callers to flood the Democratic Voter Protection phone lines.

Most things don't piss me off to violence; this does.

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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