Comments on: Fired Up, Ready to Go

By: spyder

spyder — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:42:51 +0000

Agonizing because we vote by mail, and i have been waiting a week for the process to run its course. Total and complete relief; even though i know the hard work is only just beginning.

By: Serge

Serge — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:26:15 +0000

Looks like Jesusland and United States of Canada again.

By: tacitus

tacitus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:49:22 +0000

D’oh! I should learn to read more than half a post before commenting.

By: Sili

Sili — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:41:27 +0000

The poor guy has aged fast lately.

I really like that picture. I honestly cannot see McCain stooping like that.

By: Sean

Sean — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:36:44 +0000

As mentioned, the map is not a prediction.

By: Allyson

Allyson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:14:10 +0000

Los Feliz, CA and about a two hour wait. A young woman at the coffee bean (why yes, I did get a latte and I am a liberal) was just about jumping out of her skin about voting for the first time.

I can’t believe I’m at work! I want to go home and watch the election show on CNN and fret about Prop 8.

By: tacitus

tacitus — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:09:12 +0000

Heh, Sean, you must have been channeling that innate Democratic pessimism when you put together that map. You have Pennsylvania, Nevada, Virginia, and Colorado as toss-up states and yet almost all the polls have Obama leading those states at or above the margin of error. Meanwhile you have Georgia, Arizona, Montana, North Carolina, and North Dakota as locks for McCain, yet their polls are all as tight, if not tighter than those above you put in the toss up column.

I don’t blame you, at all, after the last two elections, but even Karl Rove produced a more favorable map for Obama!

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:05:29 +0000

Neil B – agreed wholeheartedly. We need an absolutely tamper proof system if we move to electronic voting of any kind. Electronic fraud can swing large numbers of votes with little effort. That being said, extremely committed supporters can easily cross state lines, submit fraudulent absentee ballots, and generally perpetrate fraud pretty easily.

Clearly machines require less effort, but I submit that in the end it is actually more easily combated. One or two whistle blowers and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down. Diebold is already taking heat – although I have no idea why they even exist today. They should have been sued into oblivion just for equipment malfunctions alone, let alone malfeseance.

Distributed, “Army of Davids” style fraud however is much more difficult to police. Compare the resources of a one class-action lawsuit against Diebold, Sequoia, etc. versus 10,000 individual, criminal lawsuits. The later also affords more deniability for the political parties.

Both are already happening right now in this election and it completely sickens me. At this point every ballot should be done on paper and the voter should be given a paper receipt.

A few links to get you fired up (as fraud of any color should):

Machines in Philly switching Obama votes – http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/the-vote-grab-1.html

Military folks don’t get enough time to cast their ballots legally because VA didn’t mail them soon enough – http://hamptonroads.com/print/486648

Just total crazy time in Philly – Repub. monitors tossed because they weren’t the people on the pre-established list – now it’s in court – http://townhall.com/blog/g/cf47766b-5a6d-44ab-95e7-ce60631bcadc

Street Money – legally paying people to vote? Total BS and both sides do it – http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/blogs/fortyfourthestate/show_comments.php?entry_id=3481

Woman from NY illegally voting in FL – idiot blogged and took pictures of it – http://wthrockmorton.com/2008/11/02/hey-florida-is-this-ok-with-you/

More machine problems in Philly – http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/politics/18002279.html

At least our local paper the Cincinnati Enquirer has a fantastic website that let’s voters post problems out to a public area. http://dunes.cincinnati.com/data/election/

By: Costanza

Costanza — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:32:03 +0000

another nifty polling site is Pollster.com

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:17:55 +0000

Regarding “nationalizing the means of production”, etc.: The Republicans have made it clear to the nation that Obama is advocating socialism. So if Obama wins today, that means that the American will have chosen socialism. I hope Obama gets started by implementing “socialized medicine”, which would be supported by 60% – 65% of the population.