Posted on 10/21/2008 2:32:46 PM PDT by BIOCHEMKY
From what I could tell, early voters are the best-informed, smartest, most responsible members of society. Twenty percent of them were supporting their candidate even before he decided to run; 12% planned to spend Nov. 4 volunteering at the polls. When I asked if they wanted to vote now for the next American Idol winner, 80% told me they don't watch the show. Two graduated from high school a year early. One was voting early so she "would be able to avoid crowds and take my time and read all the propositions carefully." These people were making such well-informed decisions that none of them said they were nervous that something would happen before the election to make them regret their vote. "Obama would have to eat a baby onstage with condiments and not wash his hands after," one told me. Another thought about my question for a minute and said, "Nothing could happen that I couldn't rationalize."
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Um; I think the article is satire, not a real poll. The writer is a self-proclaimed “humorist” and the poll questions and responses relect that.
The SCOTUS has already ruled you have no Constitutional right to vote. See Bush Vs. Gore.
This is up to the States.
That wasn't the question I asked.
Doesn't the Constitution declare the date (singular) for voting for POTUS?
I’d vote early, but I’m afraid that gives them time to play with it or lose my vote. So I wait for election day.
This is one of the latest elections for me because the sheer number and scope of CA and local propositions (over 300 pages in English voter materials) had been maddening to trudge through.
I realize if I didn't take it as seriously as some (most?), I could vote more quickly but I try to make my best judgments from a range of public debates, online research and reading the proposals.
I’m trying to decide when is the best time to mail in our ballots (we’re all on mail-ins here in WA). I don’t want them received too early because I fear they’ll be dumped in the trash by the Dems in charge of counting them. Maybe closer to the deadline there will be more people watching the counters.
Exactly why I love being able to vote early.
Eating a baby onstage isn’t all that far from his stance on attempted abortion survivors, is it?
Well, I would imagine all different "kinds" of people vote early.
The thing most would have in common, self included, is that their votes wouldn't be changed by any new information what-so-ever.
Case in point, I voted early and I voted against B.O.
I didn't really care that much for whom I did vote for, but cared deeply that B.O. be defeated.
The only Const. requirements for a time line is that the new President will take over from the old President at noon on the 20th of Jan.
Thats all.
So in theory you could have the elections in Dec. or whenever. as long as you made room for the Electoral College to vote and decide the Pres.
Early voting is a bad idea. It invites fraud.
I want to get my vote in for Sarah just in case I get in a bad car wreck or something before election day.
Is it only Democrats voting early? I’m voting early in California and feel like the girl quoted. There’s not anything John McCain could do that would make me vote for Obama.
You are a smart person.
Well, if everybody is supposed to vote on Election Day, then they should make it a national holiday. Logistically, for many, spending 2 hours waiting in line at the polls on a work or school day isn't a possibility.
Our polls open at 7, close at 7. We live in a large city, and the wait during a national election can be hours and it just isn't possible to fit in the hours it takes to vote.
Our son, for instance, is a grad student that is also a graduate assistant. He has to proctor classes at 8, on campus, and his commute is 45 minutes, so he will be leaving home that day a little after 7. He also has classes that day and his last class ends at 6, so by the time he gets home the polls are closed. If it wasn't for an alternative way to vote, he would not be able to make it to the polls on that day (especially since the wait at our polls are so long, and will be longer this year because of all the state amendments being voted on.)
Hubby is also voting early because of his work schedule on that particular day. And I have MS, waiting in a line for a couple hours really isn't an option for me, either way. But we are all voting and that's what matters.
P.S. For local or state elections and primaries, we do make it to the polls, but that's because you can get in and out in a matter of minutes versus hours.
Those who believe in voting early & often
So, yes, Obama is their only choice, just like everyone here is going to make sure they vote for someone who they think can beat obama.
Early voting is very heavy in my red county/red state.
hell, I would vote now if I knew, with 100% certainty, that it would be counted. does that make me a moron?
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