less than 3 weeks till the US election

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:54 am

alright, let's keep this a clean fight. no flaming, personal attacks, etc.

who are you voting for?
don't have to answer the question, if you don't feel comfortable.

personally, I'm either voting for Kerry, or maybe throwing in a protest vote for Sharpton or ficus, because NY will go for Kerry and the electoral college pisses me off.

Toxic · Post by **Toxic** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:07 am

Couldn't this be in General Discussion?

And I'm for Kerry.

Rkolter · Post by **Rkolter** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:35 am

I finally decided on Kerry because I have a legitimate fear that Bush will become a true religious zealot. It frightens me to have a president who chooses the country's policies based on his own personal religious beliefs. I don't like Kerry especially much, but I fear Bush.

Jim North · Post by **Jim North** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:37 am

. . . other.

Post by **Mercury Hat** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 11:56 am

Yeah, what RKolter said. They both scare me, they're both ugly (although Bush was a fox in his younger days, rowr), but Kerry seems to be able to keep a level and fair head about things.

But either way, I don't think my dorm is going to be a very happy place once the results are broadcast (Southern dorm full of Bush supporters). It'll either be sorrow for them or me, this race has my stomach in knots.

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:08 pm

Kerry. Because I hate Bush more than I hate him, and Bush already had his chance and majorly screwed up.

I just saw John Edwards Wednesday, and boy, what a fox!

Fullcircle · Post by **Fullcircle** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:10 pm

Ditto on Kerry and Bush's religious fanaticism... in fact, the wife and I sent in early ballots so we already voted for Kerry. Bush frightens me. Immensely. I've actually wept at the idea of him winning the election.

Kerry is without question the lesser evil here, and it's a very nerve wrackingly close race.

~SR

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 12:14 pm

ditto with RKolter. But I already know that the Electorial vote for Alaska is going to Bush... not that it matters on that either. CNN always annouces who won the election before Alaska's polls even close.

How I know it will go to Bush is that 82% of Alaskans want ANWR (but lets not argue about that either) and Kerry is against it. Personally I feel that as long as ANWR is a national issue, it won't ever pass, so it's not a deciding factor to me in who I vote for. It's education, Heatlth and Civil Issues that I care about. So while I'll vote against the Majority in Alaska, I'll still be proud to say "at least I voted the way I believe I should have."

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:07 pm

This is coming as an uninterested onlooker from across the waves in the land of milk and honey and bouncing rats and other strange animals...

Kerry must be getting a little worried, cos just recently it appears that he has recoloured his hair...he's definitely not as silvery as he was when I first saw him on the news...

Dunno if that's gonna affect anything, but it looks like a cheap ploy from way over here...

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:25 pm

Kerry does like keeping his apperance youthful. American Media has already commented on that and Botox. I don't think someone wanting to keep his appearnce up is a bad thing.

Nyke · Post by **Nyke** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:26 pm

Already voted absentee for Kerry.

Friend · Post by **Friend** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:34 pm

ANWR?

CJBurgandy · Post by **CJBurgandy** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:41 pm

trinket90 wrote:ANWR?

Oil drilling in the Alaskan Swamps.

Mr.Bob · Post by **Mr.Bob** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:43 pm

You know its odd. You see that one vote for Bush? That was me seeing the thread before anyone had posted in it trying to be funny again.

Grabmygoblin · Post by **Grabmygoblin** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:31 pm

TOXIC AVENGER! wrote:Couldn't this be in General Discussion?

stuck it in here because it doesn't have anything to do with comics, but I'll let McDuff, yarps and faub decide.

[geoduck] · Post by **[geoduck]** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:09 pm

Dutch! wrote:This is coming as an uninterested onlooker from across the waves in the land of milk and honey and bouncing rats and other strange animals...

Kerry must be getting a little worried, cos just recently it appears that he has recoloured his hair...he's definitely not as silvery as he was when I first saw him on the news...

Bush's hair color fluxuates from day to day as well. I think it's pretty much a given with male candidates in our image-obsessed politics.

I'm another Kerry voter. I'll even go out on a limb and say that he's going to win, and it's not going to be nearly as close as the media is trying to make it seem. (Not so much due to pro-Bush bias as they want the massed peons to keep watching for the Latest Thrilling Update, not to mention the Latest Thrilling Commercials...) It won't be an absolute landslide; 35-40% of the voters are going to go for Bush even if he is caught live on national TV on the White House lawn having improper relations with terrorist goats. But Bush just squeaked in in 2000, lots and lots of new Democratic voters have joined the ranks, and he hasn't won many converts from the other side of the aisle.

Dutch! · Post by **Dutch!** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:19 pm

Image obsessed politics...don't think we have that over here...

We just voted with an increased majority for our PM who is often photographed or filmed taking early morning power walks in a green and gold tracksuit...

Luprand · Post by **Luprand** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:29 pm

Edit: screw optimism and idealism. Pedagogy and negativism are much more worthwhile.

--Sij

Joel Fagin · Post by **Joel Fagin** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:36 pm

Fun fact. An Australian journalist who works in the US and who recently popped back to Australia during our own Federal election found out more about our candidates, what they stand for and their plans if they get into office in two days than in the entire American election to date.

I have a theory as to why, too. Americans don't have to vote, but if you do something people don't like, then they will. Incensed people take action and content people do not. If you actually state any firm policies, all you'll get are the people who don't like it voting against you.

This is also why the lobbies have such hugely disproportianate power in the US - because their members will vote against you if you upset them but the other people might not vote for you.*

US politics is about not upsetting anyone.

- Joel Fagin

* Which is why we actually managed to get gun control laws through. The Prime Minister ignored the lobby.

Alaina · Post by **Alaina** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 6:08 pm

I think Bush is gonna win. I really don't want him to, but I have the niggling feeling that it'll happen.

Who should win?? Why, John Edwards of course!

Here we see Edwards comparing the size of Bush's penis (left) to his own (right).

I think Edwards has had Botox because he's 51 and looks 35.

If you vote for Bush, then you hate kittens. You don't HATE kittens, DO YOU?!?!?!

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