Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Third partiers... independants... we've got to vote democrat

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • #76
    So, pretty much, you're saying I'm throwing my vote away by voting third party.

    When I live in Illinois, a state that has always, and will always, vote Democratic by a hefty margin.

    When I lived in Georgia, a state that has in recent memory voted Republican in national elections by a hefty margin.

    In every election I've participated in, my vote has not counted, nor has it mattered, due to the simple fact that I've lived in states where there is an overwhelming majority in one direction or another.

    In every election I've participated in, my vote has done nothing to effect change because the outcome was a foregone conclusion anyway.

    Since my vote doesn't matter anyway, why the **** should I vote anything other than my conscience, which won't let me vote Democratic?
    B♭3

    Comment


    • #77
      Yeah, blame me. I live in a swing state. I'm not voting Democratic, not that it matters since only a Democrat is running in my district.
      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

      Comment


      • #78
        I'm with Che & QCubed, vote your conscience.

        What good would the Dems do us anyways? They are complicit in getting us into this mess almost as much as the Republicans. Why didn't the Dems stop the Patriot act? Why didn't they stop us from going to war in Iraq? They could have put up a fight both times. Filibustered it. Done... something.

        That being said I know several Dems I'd like to vote for, and several Reps I'd like to vote for. Sadly I'm not in any of their districts. I think I may vote Republican for Governor & Senate in the fall (Ehrlich & Steele respectively, but I haven't made my mind up yet). Democrat for some smaller races (not that I have a choice).

        Personally I'm gong to be rooting for a Democratic win overall in the fall, but I'm not going to get my hopes up thinking it'll do much good. I'm still voting my conscience. And if a viable Green or Libertarian or Independent or ****, even Socialist is on the ballot, they've got my vote.
        Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012

        When I was younger I thought curfews were silly, but now as the daughter of a young woman, I appreciate them. - Rah

        Comment


        • #79
          I'm gonna run in 2008. 'Till then, I drive.
          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

          Comment

          Working...
          X