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| 11-06-12 06:44am - 4429 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Khan (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,737 Registered: Jan 05, '07 Location: USA |
Election Day - Go Vote Just a reminder that today is election day (for US users). Be sure to go out and vote. I know, the system sucks and most of the canidates are not as good as we'd like, still, if we don't vote, we lose the right to complain. Former PornUsers Senior Administrator Now at: MyPorn.com "To get your ideas across use small words, big ideas, and short sentences."-John Henry Patterson | |
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| 11-06-12 08:16am - 4429 days | #2 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
I wish the electoral vote did not exist. I happen to live in a rare state where the popular vote here could be 99% for one guy and still could go the other. We also have mail only voting and this year many people got several ballots in the mail ( extras). But I do get a say in local and state voting but the presidential citizen vote means nothing here and it sucks. Oh well ! Since 2007 | |
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| 11-06-12 10:16am - 4429 days | #3 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User  Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Truer words have rarely been spoken. Voted this morning; gotta be a good citizen. "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!" Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 11-06-12 10:52am - 4429 days | #4 | |
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oldfizzywig (0)
Active User  Posts: 6 Registered: Aug 19, '12 Location: WI |
Hard for me to understand how you can say that 99% could vote one way, and yet electors for state could be other way, but since each state may select their own method of selecting electors, I guess I can't judge how your state, I don't know which one it is, sets things up. Here in Wisconsin (battle ground state this year) I will be very happy when the election is done, as I have been inundated with political robo calls for the last month or so. I would really like my telephone back.   If I had my way, and could change the electoral vote process, it would be that the winner in each congressional district gets one electoral vote, and the winner of the state as a whole gets two extra votes because of the senators. I think Maine does it this way, and this makes more sense to me. This could be done without a constitutional amendment! And while it would not be "direct" popular voting, I think it would make the election process more national, and move us from thinking only of the 5 or 6 swing states as is done now. Well that is my 2¢ worth. | |
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| 11-06-12 12:33pm - 4429 days | #5 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
I keep tellin' you, Khan!!!!! RUN  You'da man! Campaign slogan: "Run fo our lives" | |
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| 11-06-12 03:10pm - 4429 days | #6 | |
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biker (0)
Active User  Posts: 632 Registered: May 03, '08 Location: milwaukee, wi |
Hi Oldfizzywig: I'm from Wisconsin too and the those calls drove me nuts. I voted, so I guess I have a right to complain. Warning Will Robinson | |
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| 11-06-12 03:32pm - 4429 days | #7 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
The consensus is that this state usually goes with the popular vote, however the state constitution says they are not bound by it. We had a republican Governor last presidential vote and most people voted republican but the state electoral voted democratic hence the popular vote did not matter. Luckily most states are not like this and are bound by their constitutions to vote according to popular vote. There is always talk to change it so people like myself do not think it really is not as important as other states.  Since 2007 | |
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| 11-06-12 03:49pm - 4429 days | #8 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
One of the benefits of not living in a swing state is the lack of active campaigning (not having cable service helps too), though it's also a subtle way of being told that your vote doesn't really matter to the candidates. And I honestly hate the electoral system as much as anybody. Until it is put out to pasture and replaced with a true popular vote system I'm not falling for the whole "every vote counts" nonsense I have to hear every election cycle. I still hold strong memories of 2000 and all the numbskullery that followed. Popular votes meant roughly jackshit in that election, and it was an example of why so many don't bother to vote in the first place.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Nov 06, 2012, 03:53pm | |
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| 11-06-12 06:21pm - 4429 days | #9 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
Yes please go vote. For a Country that prides itself on it's democracy. I find that too Many Americans forget to excercise that obligation when it's most important to do so. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-06-12 10:32pm - 4428 days | #10 | |
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Toadsith (0)
Active User Posts: 936 Registered: Dec 07, '07 Location: USA |
Not to be political or anything but... YAY!!!!!!!!!   "I'm not a number, I'm a free man!"Second Grand Order Poobah in the Loyal Order of the Water Buffalo | |
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| 11-07-12 02:10am - 4428 days | #11 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
I did. I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 11-07-12 08:26am - 4428 days | #12 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Really hope you guys appreciate...or are somewhat happy with the result......a lot, a LOT of people here in this little country hoped for Obama - not that we're "socialists" - far from, but your president - and for the next four years has a lot of respect over here...we'll never know how it would have been with Romney, though - worldwide...but guess, I'll go along with Merle Haggard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDoYsBAyFb0 "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 11-07-12 09:07am - 4428 days | #13 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
My concerns are easy. Democratic President, Republican House. Going to be like pushing a 10 ton pile of cement without tires. That means it will take us all to push !  Since 2007 | |
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| 11-07-12 03:51pm - 4428 days | #14 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
Rebuilding America first, let's start with Congress and their sense of purpose. They sure seem to have lost that! I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 11-07-12 05:09pm - 4428 days | #15 | |
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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User  Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Thank goodness the human being won. | |
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| 11-07-12 07:44pm - 4427 days | #16 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Nice to see ya Squirrel, have seen ya much lately Since 2007 | |
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| 11-08-12 11:51am - 4427 days | #17 | |
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anyonebutme (0)
Active User  Posts: 294 Registered: Aug 23, '09 |
I live in Illinois, not exactly a swing state in the Presidential election. Near every county position up for election the candidate ran unopposed. State districts were re-written to guarantee the balance of power in the state legislature (of which Illinois is rated the absolute worst fiscal position in the country, so happy we have even MORE of the same!) One Chicago district elected a U.S. Rep based an absent, robo-call only campaign while currently under federal investigation for campaign finance fraud, and won in a gigantic landslide victory. Another candidate on taped recordings accepting bribes? Another landslide victory. That's why I pay more attention to porn, and not even bother voting. $6 billion spent by candidates, thousands of hours of hateful negative ads from all parties, and in the end the only thing that changed was Measure B in L.A. | |
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| 11-08-12 12:55pm - 4427 days | #18 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
Imagine how happy they would be if they spent 6 billion in porn?  Since 2007 | |
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| 11-08-12 01:29pm - 4427 days | #19 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
In my State, it was Red from the gitgo. Didn't matter if you wanted to vote for Obob, your vote was a waste and the only thing that mattered was that you did vote. The only issue that was important to vote on was weather to continue a toll on a bridge that crosses a river. Over 300,000 votes on the issue and at this point, before a recount, there is an 8 vote difference. One one side - Against the Toll - the State takes care of the maint, lighting and policing of the bridge. They have no money to do so and services will be severely cut to make it free, plus we lose the services of the ferries that run the river and make it possible for service people to live on one side and get to the other without having an auto. On the other side - For the Toll - the bridge pays for itself AND the ferries, which it has been doing for years. A toll tag costs you 40¢ to cross (only one way is tolled) and $1 if you don't have a tag. Amazing how people don't want to step up to keep things up. If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! | |
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| 11-09-12 09:26am - 4426 days | #20 | |
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Tree Rodent (0)
Active User Posts: 708 Registered: Oct 29, '08 Location: UK |
Thanks toad. I regularly look in to see what's happening at PU, but admittedly don't contribute as much as I used to. Good to see you still around too, as you have left a couple of times Even though I tend to take the "don't vote it will only encourage them" and "if voting changed anything they would make it illegal" line, I'd take Carter and Obama over any other politicians, including British. He wont be allowed to do much, but it's nice to see one of the few politicians in history, who seems like a genuine human being, get voted in. I though at one point the only chance for America was for Mitt Romney to do a nationwide tour of grassy knolls. | |
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| 11-09-12 08:04pm - 4425 days | #21 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I never once thought that Romney wasn't human. My problem with him is that I cannot think of one view that he has always had and which he has defended. It's common for most politiciabs to have varying views based on who you are speaking to but I think he took that the the "N"the level. He might as well have chnaged his name to Mt Flip flop for all the time he was caught chnaging his opinion o a given subject. My other big problem is that I don't think a millionaire can ever be a good President and that goes double for multi-millionaire. Of course I'm a Canadian so that makes me a socialist anyway. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-10-12 03:26am - 4425 days | #22 | |
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Ed2009 (0)
Suspended Webmaster  Posts: 509 Registered: Sep 12, '09 Location: Wales, UK |
Speaking as someone from outside the US, I think the rest of the world breathed a sigh of relief when Obama won. He may not be the best US President ever (I have no idea on that one), but he certainly seems a LOT less scary than that guy named after a glove. Webmaster of StripGameCentral and A Measure of Curiosity. | |
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| 11-10-12 06:41am - 4425 days | #23 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I'd also like to add that since this is a second term President then you already know what kind of man you have and also what kind of President you will get. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 11-10-12 08:07am - 4425 days | #24 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
I think I have been back now about hmmm a year or so, I have learned to take mini breaks time to time, but no year long hiatus anymore. So most likely you will see me around for sometime as I have made my pop ins as part of my morning coffee relaxing time. Oh late night read an get tire time. Or afternoon break time LOL Since 2007 | |
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| 11-10-12 08:19am - 4425 days | #25 | |
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Cybertoad (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,158 Registered: Jan 01, '08 Location: Wash |
In the politics the problem I see and always see here in the USA is people with money can make up any facts they want pure and simple. And many Americans do not vote even when registered, here only 60% of the registered county voters, voted. Furthermore people do not read and instead let politicians do the reading for them. Just a little research and most would have seen Obama care why not perfect was not the anti-Christ to healthcare. I downloaded the Health Care acts and read and found some areas of concern but most was ok as it would take place over 10 years. We never hear the health care act will take 10 years to complete. People hear 2013-14 it was a done deal, not so. That is one issue on one law and we are not even talking about the thousands of bonds,laws and political positions voted for that people just are lazy and do not read. For the record if one does research, yes Obama is a legal citizen and he is not the anti-christ nor does he want to take all our guns away.  I get tired of the garbage that hits the new media air waves as facts and people eat it up. And for sake of argument I belong to no political party but would consider myself mid stream slightly conservative. And I think Obama is a descent man, I just didn't vote for him because some laws he passed affected my own life and finances personally a few years ago by a poorly written law that past. Since 2007 | |
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| 11-10-12 05:21pm - 4425 days | #26 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
One should never forget the unprecedented mess Bush left this country in -- after eight years of study political rape, pillage, obscene spending, war-mongering, self-indulgence' of power (the list goes on) -- after mercifully gettin' his ass unseated in one of the most crucial transfer of power acts in our nation's history. Obama's got himself an alligator by the tail. God speed and may creation's divine intervention bring us out of this inherited quagmire.  | |
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| 11-10-12 06:33pm - 4425 days | #27 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I try to keep my nose out of American Politics since I had to have it reconstructed, after one of those ubiquitous flame wars on the usenet some years ago, but I am extremely happy that President Obama won and just can't suppress that sentiment for the sake of group harmony!!  | |
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