Go Vote!!!
 

Y'all don't forget to vote! I'll be out the door soon--in the pouring rain, accompanied by an ill-tempered toddler.

"Sandy, we have to wake up early tomorrow to go vote," said my mother.

Yes, I'll be there.

It's only the 2nd time in history that two women have been up for a gubernatorial office...and I'll be there to make my vote count...even if it does mean voting for the lesser of two evils.

It's a long story...

I voted!
 

I voted. People in NOVA say it with me:

NO.MORE.TAXES.

Doing election coverage today for the news station so voting will not be tough:D

Sent in my absentee ballot a few days ago.

Also, subtle endorsements:

If you're voting in CT, vote John Rowland (although the polls already have him way up anyways)

If you're voting in MA, vote Mitt Romney (going to be a tight tight race, probably go down to the wire)

Collin

Gooooooooo Jean Carnahan (sp? lol)!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vote early and vote often! :D

Nah, I voted for Shannon O'Brian. It's really a lesser of two evils move but Romney's tax evasion scandal didn't help. Also, I read some articles in the Boston Globe about how Romney was using his sex appeal to attract women voters and I found that insulting. I am living in PA for school now and not sure if I'm moving back to MA after graduation so the gubernatorial election didn't matter that much to me. i also decided in the end not to vote for the bilingual education. It was a hard decision to make but in the end I couldn't support a move that gave families so much power to sue teachers.

Anyways, GO VOTE! SAVE DEMOCRACY!

Although the republicans will probably retain control of the house, we all know the senate is where the real power lies ;) so get out there and vote for your local democratic candidate :D otherwise you never know what Dubya might try and pull :cool:

Actually the House and the Senate are pretty much equals. The Senate has just become important RECENTLY because the party that controls the white house controls the house and does not control the Senate... Therefore it is a body that must be bargained with if the pres wants to get his way.

Remember back in '94 it was the Republican controlled house that ran the show.

I voted! OUT WITH JEB! OUT WITH HIM!!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE for the love of God let McBride win.

umm, i know theyre technically equals (i'm a poli sci major) but historically too, the senate has always been seen as more prestigious, only 2 per sate, while there can be 20/30/50 etc representitives per state in the house.

My vote is in!

Nope... voted for Curry. He doesn't have much of a shot at winning, but still...

I just hope Maloney wins...

I am about to go vote Democrat. Barnes, Cleland, and Taylor are all safe with me. The only repulican I will probaby vote for is the insurance comisinor. He has done a great job so far.

Ooooh, this popsicle is finally back. It's pouring and cold and I went and stood in line for 35 minutes.(Thank God my in-laws kept the baby.) I couldn't figure out why the line was poking along and someone said that all the senior citizens were having issues with the touch screen voting. (Although I heard a departing woman scream to her friend in line, "You can do it, Mabel! It's just like your microwave!")

It only took me 2 minutes to vote my split ticket. Then I helped a friend wrestle a giant wheelchair across the muddy ground and into her car, which was being blocked by some truck. Why do normal events always end up as adventures for me? Now I'm finally warm and dry in front of the computer with a hot drink...ahhh...God bless the USA!

Waiting in line was the only annoying thing about the election. The touch screen was very easy to use. I noticed a trend at my polling station. Old white people. Not many young or minorities voting.

How many of you have touch screens vs. lever machines? My district uses the old-fashioned lever ones, but I wish we had touch screens... in my booth, the levers were slightly offset from the names, so I almost voted for the wrong candidate!

LOL @ carnation's "it's just like your microwave" :)

People under 65 were minorities where I voted today. LOL. There were only 3 college-aged people (all female) there besides me, and the rest were a few 30 & 40-somethings & TONS of 70-somethings. I didn't vote last year b/c I was out of county at college, but I came back to my town today to vote so that next yr I can get an absentee ballot.

Tennesseans---Vote PHIL BREDESEN for Governer!!! (sp?)
Van Hillary is a weasle and a shmuck!!! (lol)

I'm registered as an Indy (independant), but for before next fall I want to change to Democrat (haha won't my grandparents & aunts & uncles think I'm a NUT!?) They're all hard-core Republicans--- my uncle paid $$$$$$$$$$ to have dinners with both Bush Sr. & Bush Jr. before. :rolleyes: Can we say... "yawn!" ??? :o

Oh yeah, and we had the touch-screen things.... interesting. I still got a lil confused, though, because this is the first time I've voted.

Ohhhhh zntke, I wish I had seen your post earlier. Oxindine (sp?) has been taking MAJOR money from insurance lobbist and said it was "silly" when Cohen brought it up. For that reason alone I voted against him. Since when is conflict of interest silly??

But I'm still glad you voted. I did too!! BTW...regarding minority and young folks, do you think it was a function of the time of day or where you live? My precint had lots of young (20 somethings) and minorities. of course the fact that I live in a majority African American district probably had something to do with that one, but I was glad to see the younguns out in the rain no less!!

I feel you, I used to live donw there (briefly for a year)!!!!

ANYONE IN MARYLAND THAT VOTES FOR THAT DEVIL BOB EHRLICH IS GOING TO HELL IN A HANDBASKET!!!! http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel029.gif http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel029.gif http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel029.gif That man is CRAZY OUTTA HIS MIND!!! This is what he's gonna do to Maryland, in particular education and gun laws if he gets in http://www.click-smilie.de/sammlung/.../teufel104.gif

DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL

:D ;) :D

Oh i voted today.

I was one of..um....3 people at the poll. Voted for Rick Perry for governor. Rick's a great guy and he'll make a GREAT first Aggie Governor of the Great State of Texas.

Kitso
KS 361 too many Democrats on GC ;) Only kidding y'all. :D

LOL--now that has got to be the funniest thing I've heard all day!

I'm going to our touch-screen center to vote after work tonight. Thank goodness the polls don't close until 8.

In PA- vote Rendell and Knoll!
We will FINALLY have a woman lieutenant governor, no matter if the dems or repubs when. Which is kind of sad in a way, PA's a little backwards.
If Rendell and Knoll (D) win (as they should, they've had a double digit lead the whole campaign), the first woman lt. gov. of PA will be Catherine Baker Knoll- who is also my third cousin! (my grandmother's first cousin- i think that makes her my 3rd cousin?). So I think that's pretty neat.

But if the Rep. win, Mike Fisher will be gov. His daughter is a KD, and is active in our alumnae association, also graduated from my law school two years ago and is working for a firm in Pittsburgh.

It's been a nasty gubernatorial battle in PA.....

Woohoo for Democrats! :)

I'm going to vote tonight between work and school. If I recall correctly, we have touch-screens.

I live in a fairly Republican area, and there are always groups of Republican candidates that attack you as you walk in to vote. When I voted in the primary this past spring, a whole bunch of them came up to me and gave me all of these pamphlets before they bothered to ask me what party I was affiliated with. When I told them I was a Democrat, one of them said, "Well, that was a waste." I told her that I was sorry she felt that way and that she just guaranteed that I wouldn't be voting for any Republicans this fall!

For Californian voters, The Governers race, Gray Davis (democrat)is the lesser of the 2 evils. Sure he's made us in debt and the energy crisis was a huge fiasco but I rather have him than Bill Simon. That guy just annoys me. And plus he's a shister. I am voting after work today and voting Democratic. Where I live, its a bunch of small town blue-blooders, so its mostly republican. I swear my family is the only people in my town that are not racist, blue blooder freaks........

Vote, Vote, Hell Yes!

Have voted in every election since I was Old enuff! I can Bitch like hell then!

Was a Demo., now a Rep. but still vote foer the person who I think is best!

Kansas, is a Pivotal state also!

Voted:

Woman as Gov.
Black as Sec. of State
Dem. for Distrect House of Rep.

Dont vote for unaposed!

Hell, they are all Wolves in Sheeps Clothing!:( :eek: :mad:

Just got back from voting. Not many young people, but tons of minorities. I live in Queens, NY, though, we have a HUGE minority population. In fact, I had to follow signs in Chinese and Spanish to get to the door I needed!

Always makes me feel really good to vote, though. Definitely a privalige we should not take for granted.

Oh and we had the annoying levers. I'm always afraid I'm going to vote wrong...

Go, Carnation, and go, Mabel! That is hilarious! We have early voting where I live, so I voted a couple of weeks ago. My county leads the state in the percentage of early voters, which makes me proud. I voted a split ticket, too. I vote based on the issues.

i voted democrat the whole way down!

I vote according to the issues, but I voted for Jeb. How else would I keep up with what George P. was up to? Just kidding! I love the Bush family, warts and all.

YEAH!

I was able to vote today afterall!
I'm so relieved!

I voted! Chuck Hagel and Lee Terry all the way!!!! cleland lost, and im torn b/c hes an alumni, but at least a republican took his spot! and Jeb won, good night so far overall!!!

I voted absentee last week, using the spiffy touch screen machines.

We've had the computerized push button machines for several years now - why? Because our old commisioner of elections struck an illegal deal with a voting booth company. Gotta love crooked LA politics! It keeps po-dunk Louisiana with some nice technology years ahead of other places.

Speaking of commissioner of elections, I voted for the woman who is currently in office, and is running for U.S. Senate. Gotta get Landrieu outa there - she keeps spending more and more of my money, and the state still has nothing to show for it. She's just riding on her daddy's name (he was mayor of New Orleans).

I was sad about the outcome of the New Orleans DA race. The results were 52/48. I think the guy who won (who is our former US Attorney) is super crooked, and wears a stupid hat (seriously, he wears a derby hat ALL THE TIME.) Plus, I think the woman who was running would have done a great job to crack down on crime. She was serious about it - her sister was murdered in NOLA and she is raising her sister's child because of it. It was personal for her.

I worked with some CNN video from other states today... Some of these computers they have look really perplexing if you were say 75+ years old and had never used a computer before. While they ARE touchscreen and all I just tend to think that at the very least these machines would be intimidating to seniors.

I voted. I did my civic duty. :)

I voted! We are STILL waiting on the Alabama gubernatoral race. Seigelman incumbent Democrat and Riley Republican are both claiming victory. Numbers show Seigelman in the lead, but yet, Riley says he has it. Riley wants a recount. What the heck?!?! We are STILL waiting.
Deja vu all over again from Presidential election of 2000. Only in Alabama!
We do however have a female Lt. Governor elect! First time in Ala. history that a female has been elected in Ala. to this position.

Woohoo! Ed Rendell is PA's new governor! First time in 90 years that someone from Philadelphia has been elected as governor! :D Congrats to kddani's third cousin, as well! :)

If you don't think your vote counts...
Here in Oklahoma State Senator Brad Henry, Democrat, edged out Former U-S Representative, Republican, Steve Largent by only 6-thousand votes.
Both men stayed up until 2-30 this morning when the results of the election were turned in and finalized.
This is a major upset for the Largent camp which has been attributed to state question 687 which will now make cockfighting in Oklahoma a felony.
State Question 687 is said to have brought out the vote in heavily democratic rural Oklahoma as they tried unsuccessfully to ensure the future of their sport.

I guess the good thing (if there can be one) about the Republicans controling the White House & Congress is that if the government goes to hell in the next 2 years - voters will blame it on them and I pray to god get that incompetant Bush out of office:cool:

At least Illinois is going to be governed by a Democrat now :)

My state sucks. If there was more than one candidtate, he didn't campaign very much. Stupid Bliey politcal machine :mad: hahaha, I corrupted a congressman's grand-niece.