Let's Talk About Mid-Term Elections

[The Guard]

I'm so sick and tired of all the horrible political commericials, about how everyone is a liar and everyone is a crook, that I've decided to do the only fair thing.

Not vote.

It makes me laugh to see grown men and women stooping to this kind of campaign strategy. And the sad thing is, everyone does it. Oh well. There's always next year.

[cross blues]

one of the people running for governor here (not gonna name) actually had a stupid phone message.... if I cared enough to vote he would have lost mine right there

[Psycho Fox]

Yes it is pathetic. If their not mud slinging they rap them selves up in the American flag.

You could vote for the independant if the independant gets in it would really show the 2 parties.

Better yet change your name to Nobody and get your name on the ballot :cool:

Vote for Mr.Nobody

Or you could change your name to a famous cartoon character like Bugs Bunny,Mickey Mouse,ect. You'd probably get a decent number of votes without even campaigning :cool:

[The Guard]

You could vote for the independant if the independant gets in it would really show the 2 parties.

"Go ahead! Throw your vote away!"

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by The Guard
You could vote for the independant if the independant gets in it would really show the 2 parties.

"Go ahead! Throw your vote away!" Better then not voting at all.

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

I'm voting for Kodos.

[gtracer72]

My election predictions:

Republicans will win the House :D :D

Democrats will win Senate :( :( (but just slightly, 2 or 3 seats)

[Reed Richards]

as somone who has worked in the US Senate and is currently a campaign manager for a race here in my home state, I'm going to take a moment to address a very (in my opinion) concerning statement.

1. Not voting. this does exactly NO good. why? campaigns ALWAYS target frequent voters and rarely are any SERIOUS attempts made to activate people who havent voted in at least the past two elections. when you don't vote, it mainly sends the message that you don't care, and as a result campaigns will not attempt to speak to you (by addressing issues via ads etc) and your voice will NEVER be heard. If you don't like the direction a campaign is going, tell that campaign. write a letter or make a call. if enough people do that, then campaigns (and candidates) will begin to change their ways. We do what we KNOW works, and frankly, what we do now DOES work, and until it stops working (by the people TELLING us, not by not voting) we probably wont change the way we do things. get 20 of your friends together and write the campaigns you are upset with. tell them the issues you want addressed. if you don't they will never know.


oh also on the issue of control of congress-

repubs keep the house (2 vote margin) and dems pick up 2 seats in the senate. so many senate races are 50-50 right now, and elections NEVER break even-- there will be some trend and right now my gut (and history) tells me that the democratic party (incidentally, my party) will probably pick up a seat or two.

[RZetlin]

With all the promotion George Bush is doing you would think he is running for re-election for the presidency.

[Artemis]

All I care about is the fact that I don't have school on Tuesday.

[Digu Volz]

Originally posted by The Guard
I'm so sick and tired of all the horrible political commericials, about how everyone is a liar and everyone is a crook, that I've decided to do the only fair thing.

Not vote.

It makes me laugh to see grown men and women stooping to this kind of campaign strategy. And the sad thing is, everyone does it. Oh well. There's always next year.

"The Guard would want you to believe that he is a quality poster, that he would be an ideal mod for the super fun happy forum. But what The Guard doesn't want you to know is that he's a stupid-head and only bathes once a week.

Vote Digu Volz"

:rolleyes:

Political parties = club houses. It's silly for grown men and women to be drawing battle lines in the sand.

Anywho, you owe it to yourself to vote because not voting is like saying 'I don't care' and not caring never got anyone anywhere. You've got the power to make a decision, so make it. Don't let anyone else do it for you.

[Psycho Fox]

Originally posted by Digu Volz
"The Guard would want you to believe that he is a quality poster, that he would be an ideal mod for the super fun happy forum. But what The Guard doesn't want you to know is that he's a stupid-head and only bathes once a week.

Vote Digu Volz"
"Digu Volz pretends to care about the important issues but resorts to nothing but mudslinging.

Vote for Psycho Fox"

:rolleyes:

Really I never understood TV ads that do nothing but whine that the other guy mudslings.


Political parties = club houses. It's silly for grown men and women to be drawing battle lines in the sand.*sigh* I wish they would just talk about the issues instead of flaming each other.

Anywho, you owe it to yourself to vote because not voting is like saying 'I don't care' and not caring never got anyone anywhere. You've got the power to make a decision, so make it. Don't let anyone else do it for you. Yup

[Rabbiterose]

:dot:

Heh, not only do the mudslinging on TV, but now politicians have taken it to the internet as well. Case in point, Tim Hagen, who is running against Bob Taft for Ohio govenor(the state that I am from) has his Taft Quack (http://www.taftquack.com/commercials.htm) campaign which is a parody of that Aflack Duck. :p

[Digu Volz]

Originally posted by Rabbiterose
:dot:

Heh, not only do the mudslinging on TV, but now politicians have taken it to the internet as well. Case in point, Tim Hagen, who is running against Bob Taft for Ohio govenor(the state that I am from) has his Taft Quack (http://www.taftquack.com/commercials.htm) campaign which is a parody of that Aflack Duck. :p

That was funny, but what I'm wondering is how come he didn't couple that humor with any substantial information ? That would probably actually help his campaign. Oh well...

[Brainatra]

Originally posted by Digu Volz
That was funny, but what I'm wondering is how come he didn't couple that humor with any substantial information ? That would probably actually help his campaign. Oh well...

Somehow, "substantial information" and a political campaign seems to be a contradiction of terms these days....

Yes, I do believe it's important to vote, as I urged a coworker of mine...even trying to remind her of the decades-long struggles African-Americans had made to be able to vote fairly... which didn't wash with her.

As a new residenet of Oregon, there's a quite high level of political activism here... for example, I registered here to vote at, of all places, a voter's registration drive at a *bar*...also the same bar where several of the candidates (Bill Bradbury for the US Senate, and Ted Kulingowski for governor) appeared in an attempt to appeal to various diverse communities (and as part of a Democratic party drive)...

Plan on turning in my ballot today (here it's mail-in ballots, though they can be dropped off), now that I've made up my mind on the 8.47 million voter's initiatives they have here (yes on raising the state minimum wage and genetic-food-labelling, no on the health care initiative---while I agree with its ideals [single-payer insurance], don't have confidence with the way it's been written out)...

-B.