Well, now that we are going to have a socialist government, where do I go to get my hand out?
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United States of America FAIL
I am not exactly sure what to say about all this. When McCain readily conceded so early, like he wished he could have done it ages ago, I was just dumb struck. So, I spent a little bit of time working on this site to take my mind off it a bit. You can note that the column is a little narrower so its easier to read, and I replaced the header image to one that is more appropriate given the outcome of events.
At this point I am still not exactly sure what to say. But, I’m pretty sure that we have a pretty shitty road ahead of us. I am hoping that Bush doesn’t take this opportunity to invade Iran, or get us into some other trouble that will be dropped in the lap of the next administration. There will probably be some pretty major terrorist attacks during the transition. And then, the onslaught of the liberal controlled government. At least it doesn’t look like the liberals will not manage to get 60 seats in the senate.
This is depressing.
Michigan FAIL
Not surprisingly, the people have Michigan have let me down yet again. I am not exactly sure why I even bother to show up at the polls these days. I’ve been voting since 1999, and not a single time has the state voted with me. I should just go in there and draw pictures on the ballot and then shove it in the wrong way for all the good it does me. Bah.
Manning the Phones
This evening, in order to make sure that if Obama wins Michigan, it wasn’t because of my county, I manned a phone at one of the local republican voting centers. Basically, the goal was to call everyone that was registered as a republican, but had not yet voted that day. I did this for almost two and half hours. It was a rather dreadful experience.
They gave everyone a “phone script” we were supposed to use. The problem with the script was that it sounded like a telemarketing call. So, after a couple of hang ups it did not take long for me to adapt it. The biggest problem was that it was too long, people had to wait at least 12 seconds before they heard what you were actually calling about. Very few people have the patients to listen to bs like that. My adapted script ended up something like this:
“Have you voted today? I’m a local volunteer calling to remind you to if you haven’t already.”
The response from people was across the board. Some people were happy someone was calling them, and enthusiastically stated their support for McCain. There were a few hang ups, and one guy waited until I was done and said he was on the national no call list, and did not understand why he was getting the call. The overwhelming majority of people responded something along the lines of “ok.” As in, they did not care one way or the other.
Ultimately, I do not think it was a worthwhile endeavor but these are desperate times, and I felt that I had to do something.
Voting with Fingers Crossed
This afternoon I headed over to my local polling station. And, as always there was no line. I guess I live in an under represented precinct, because the other precinct that votes at the same place always has excessively long lines.
Annoyingly, I was met at the door by a woman that told me I couldn’t bring in my cell phone, camera, or any other recording equipment. I obviously complained, stating that it was my business how I recorded and dispersed information about how I voted. But, she simply responded that they were bound by he rules and had to enforce them. Michigan is such a shitty place.
As I received my ballot, the woman was explaining how to vote, and what not (honestly, who deserves to vote when they don’t already know how). Earlier, my parents were talking about how the ballot says to use black pens, but they had blue at the polls so I inquired about it. One of the women said they are just using what was given to them, and another looked it up and showed that it said blue or black pens were acceptable.
When I walked over to the little voting box thing, I noticed that there were no pens at all to use. So, I hollered over to them if invisible ink was also acceptable. One of the women (why don’t any men man the polls?) ran over with a blue and black pen, giving me my choice. In the interest of irony, I chose blue.
Voting was a pretty straight forward affair, republicans for all the important positions, libertarians for the all the education positions, and no votes for anyone running unopposed. In fact, I was so disgusted about so many people running unopposed that I put myself in for sheriff. One of my brothers voted for me for Drain Commission, which is kind of the same thing as sheriff.
After completing my ballot I feed it to the devouring machine, and grabbed one of the poorly designed “I Voted” stickers.
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