VOTE OR DIE 2012: A REMINDER NOT TO STAY HOME ON ELECTION DAY - BUMP EARLY AND OFTEN

Scared about a Romney/Ryan presidency? Do something about it: VOTE for Obama before or on Election Day, and remind everyone else they need to, too. This is the thread for that, and for keeping the faith.

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but let me add, controversially, if you live somewhere that'll be an obama landslide no matter what, consider voting for someone that has views that you actually support.

True that

and let me add, controversially, if you live somewhere that'll be an obama or romney landslide no matter what, plz throw that third party vote to jill stein and not gary johnson. libertarian's have too much influence on 'national dialogue' or whatever as is and where that influence actually is felt is where they're 'wrong' (deregulation, privatization, dismantling of 20th century) and not where they're 'right' (civil liberties, weeeeed).

If Ohio is safe I may vote for the Socialist candidate just for LOLz. Not convinced Ohio is going to be safe, though.

yeah ohio's not safe, don't do that.

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I know, I know, we don't need anymore political threads

going around telling everyone in connecticut how great obama is!

connecticut is gonna be closer than normal because it is filled w/ mitt romney

Ima be blowing this thread UP in early November

If you're in a panic about a good Romney poll, go to the Reassure Me thread. If Donald Trump's on the loose, it's the General Election thread. Fallout from one of the debates, you go back and find the right thread (there's three of them--probably no longer operative). If you're disgusted by something Obama's done, General Politics thread. If you want to urge people to vote, come here. If you're Canadian, you're free to wear out your welcome on any of them.

we need a canadians discuss american politics thread

YOU BUILD THAT

might do this but need Lena Dunham to convince me

Finefinemusic: "Issue #3--MITTMENTUM!"
Thermo Thinwall: "Oh, please..."

probably going to vote Jill Stein unless things start going horribly wrong in WA, finally getting off my ass to phone-bank for gay marriage tomorrow

I'm still waiting for my damn voter ID card, but it doesn't really matter anyway since I'm in Texas

Best I can do is browbeat people in other states to vote Obama

phone banking otm

any volunteering of time to any campaign >>>> voting

yup

If you're holding Obama/Biden yard signs, bumper stickers, pins, or anything, or if you know someone else who is come up off that swag

I have a lot to do on Nov. 6, so I'll probably just hang around the office all day and watch the results when I get home.

Im sure some here will be mad at me for saying this, but i want to encourage people not to vote third party this time around. In an election this close popular vote wise, that very well may come down to recounts and lawsuits the popular vote DOES matter, adding legitimacy to any dispute over the winner. but hey its your choice to make.

yup

Im sure some here will be mad at me for saying this, but i want to encourage people not to vote third party this time around. In an election this close popular vote wise, that very well may come down to recounts and lawsuits the popular vote DOES matter, adding legitimacy to any dispute over the winner. but hey its your choice to make.

― dsb, Friday, October 26, 2012 12:17 AM (38 minutes ago)

ok, not this time around

any volunteering of time to any campaign >>>> voting

― Aimless, Friday, October 26, 2012 12:56 AM (18 hours ago)

tbh voting for important local stuff >>>>> volunteering for any campaign

I dunno. The big local issues in my smallish town (pop. 30,000) are the races for mayor and city council, where a conservative group of pseudo-Tea Partiers are in the race. They are in a good position to win, in spite of the fact that my town leans liberal for the past few elections. The biggest reason why they are running so strongly is that, unlike most past elections, the conservatives are MUCH better organized. They went out and did the legwork starting more than a year ago, raised money, recruited candidates and created a network of supporters.

iow, they activated a LOT of volunteers putting in a LOT of hours. And my guess is they will take over the city government as a result. Take away all that volunteer effort and they wouldn't have stood a ghost of a chance.

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BUMP THE JAM

Friends don't let friends vote for 'lesser' evils

sez the mets fan!

dropped my ballot off today, voting green, gays, taxes, and weed.

but hey, YOU VOTED MAN

vote, everybody!

how do you guys vote for judges

I usually just go for best name

Friends don't let friends vote for 'lesser' evils

Friends also don't let friends vote for just plain evil

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if he follows the model he has to call it obama but man...

oops wrong election thread

after tomorrow these threads will thin out, promise

only true election thread GOOD LUCK USA! ***** I LOVE CRICKET ELECTION THREAD! ***** FREE l0U1S JAGG3R POEM FOR EVERY VOTER!

Lol

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I have to walk 1.5 miles to vote. At least it is not raining, for a change!

remember MNans---even though we are a lock for Obama (prob) you still have to vote NO twice today, so make sure to show up

In line right now.

me2

i voted @ 615am, my vote should count more

I had to wait in line for a half hour, which wasn't as bad as I had feared. Glad to have it over and done with.

is it hard to vote from outside the country?

Not that I can vote but my local polling place is in the teamsters temple, this seems wrong to me.

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guys look what was waiting for me at my polling place:

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thought it was gonna be a cougar

dome of silence?

v auspicious

people be voting in LA.

we have a proposition to vote for that requires people in porn to use a condom. what the fuck.

also I was of the belief for a few hours yesterday that my polling place was the cafeteria where Obama went to elementary school but I was reading Hawaiian names wrong and he actually went to the next closest elementary school

x-post Pot of Gold = you wrote in Ron Paul.

people be voting in LA.

we have a proposition to vote for that requires people in porn to use a condom. what the fuck.

iirc this was passed last year?

That's a big license plate, grades.

just dropped off my ballot at the local ballot-collection mailbox! voting is a cold solitary act here in oregon, but another lady was there dropping off hers and we did a little "yay voting!" fist pump together.

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2 calm and orderly hours to vote in Arlington, VA

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gonna really regret not getting up early today when the lines hella long after work

guys Gawker picked up my rainbow photo, feel like this could be really huge for me

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ilxors be gettin famouz.

expecting a call from the Obama Campaign any minute now

"Look, ah, Grady? We're gonna need you to head up the Department of Teaching Ppl How To Live"

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i voted

right after a cute boy who was voting for the first time

it felt good

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thought those keys were a gun 4 a sec

VOTE OR DIE

this just in, black panther soldiers are demanding people's voting stickers at gunpoint, pass it on, share on facebook

Haha

Does ILX have any Ohioans?

Phil D., if I'm not mistaken.

I was one from 2006 until just a couple of months ago with some short gaps. My ad-bombardment sympathies go out to all those that I left behind in the trenches.

I was in Dayton a few weeks ago and saw more yard signs in a single day than I'd seen in the preceding 10 months in upstate NY.

Voted after work, surprised the line wasn't too bad. I didn't get a sticker but I did get two nice chocolate cupcakes from a bake sale. Oh yeah, two days ago I got something in the mail from the "Democratic City Committee" telling me thanks for registering as a Democrat, and by the way here's some helpful information for you- then they told me the wrong voting place in my precinct. Not sure if it was a fake letter trying to confuse people, or if we really have a Democratic City Committee and they are hella incompetent.

Voted in Shaker Heights, OH tonight. No waiting but it was steadily busy. When I went to the desk to turn in my ballot a woman headed me off and asked if I was in the right district (every desk pertains to a different district)- good on them (i was). Filled in the circle with pen to vote and run it through the scanner.

go browns

I propose that Phil D. and brownie be made mods for tonight to reflect their relative importance among all American voters

no line when i voted! didn't get a sticker though, wtf

Does ILX have any Ohioans?

― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, November 6, 2012 11:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I live in Canton, Ohio. Voted last Friday night at the local Board of Elections. Took an hour. Got much worse over the weekend, I'm told.

i wrote in snrub for prez btw

Voted, raked leaves, leaving soon for work. All in Ohio!

nice

Voted, though I live in DC so who gives a shit other that the people running for open city council and school board seats. Oh and I guess Elenor Holmes Norton and whoever the fuck is our shadow senator--oh whatever, they're fine with or without me.

Best part about voting in DC this year were three questions about whether or not to authorize resolutions preventing a city councilperson or mayor from continuing to serve if convicted of a felony while holding that office. Thanking u Marion Barry for making me put on my thinking cap for a minute there.

Expat Ohioan here, still heavily invested in what happens there.

(Akron/Summit Cty)

Voted! And scored a sticker. Lady was giving them out ahead of time while we were lining up so that they didn't forget at the end, lol.

notable today:
polling place changed. no more tiny, half empty church. big old community center with a big long line. LOT of newly registered voters not on the register doing provisional ballots. 5 people ahead of me in line, all of them provisional ballots. maybe that's normal in bigger places.

druuuuuuuuuunk lady next to us voting for the first time, talking to herself & the room quite loudly, was pretty funny. 'What the...How the fuck do you...Oh god I don't even...Oh jeeeezzzzus christ I don't fucking know...' The best was when she had to fill out her info on the provisional form. She says to me, 'Hey what's the date today?" "The sixth." Writes for a moment. "What month is it?" "November." Writes again. Quiet for a moment. "So, what year is it?" "2012"

Bless her heart for coming out to vote instead of sleeping it off, is all I can say, lol.

time traveler code of ethics says it's not cool to influence past elections, shame on her

I have never gotten a sticker.

I have stickers for everyone! And brandy.