Believe me if this was in class, at work,or wherever, I would have gone nasty, in the street nuclear *LOL* The last time I didn't curse someone out when they needed it, I ended up in the hospital with a mini-stroke.
Mini-stroke?? For real??
I sympathize with you cyborg. I even have decided to take the effort to take time off work, fly down to my hometown (where I'm still registered) and vote in person, there's a very strong "cheating is OK, wouldn't you cheat if it meant Hilter didn't get in power?" mentality here; I don't trust these people to not to mess up my absentee ballot somehow.
It's hard living in a liberal area... lived in the South... I had this t-shirt that said "God bless America" or somesuch... never gave a second thought to it. Then when I came up here... I pulled that t-shirt out of the pile, put it on without a second thought, and my "friends" slapped me around pretty badly for it. It was my first real experience feeling humilated for being a Christian or Republican. I don't wear that shirt anymore, not because I'm ashamed of my beliefs, but because the swine don't need pearls. And this is supposedly a conservative part of NY, I can't imagine how hard it must be for you in NYC.
I recently put my W'04 bumper sticker on my car, it's not been keyed yet probably because it's so subtle, and I look forward to wearing my "W'04" shirt during my Election Day minivacation. Thank you for your courage to speak up...