I'm so sad, you guys. I'm so sad.

( sorrow )

One hour wait here on the upper west side, at 11:50am! Crazy! (It was also an hour at 8:15am, so I came back later sans Hypatia.) I don't have a sense how it compares to usual because four years ago I voted absentee and worked in PA, but people were saying it was NOT typical at this time of day. Fellow USians please don't forget to vote! Find ( Read more... )

I am taking a break from angsting over tonight's Idol results show to ask any folks in NY state to take a second on a more important voting-related cause -- our state assembly has passed a same-sex marriage bill \o/, and now it goes to the State Senate, which is only Dem by the thinnest of razor-thin margins, with several conservative members ( Read more... )

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I spent the last two days in Pennsylvania working in Monroe County on GOTV. One of the things I was signed up to do was line manage last night -- bring food and water and encouragement to people on line waiting to vote. In 2004, the last vote cast in this area was at 12:30am, so they were braced for a long night. I collected up umbrellas, too, ( Read more... )

Hey folks -- there's early voting going on in Ohio RIGHT NOW, but it ends THIS MONDAY. The Obama campaign is doing a get-out-the-vote effort right now and asking for people to make calls from home even if you don't live in Ohio:

http://my.barackobama.com/n2nOhioCreate an account and ( Read more... )

Only of interest to those who might consider going to eastern Pennsylvania to campaign for Obama if there were ( reasonable housing options )

So hey, I am basically all-coding all-the-time right now which is why this lj has been boring and dead, but I saw this at fivethirtyeight.com and it impelled me to post (and then to go trolling political websites for several hours, argh). It's an independent ad about Sarah Palin's record on wildlife conservation (which to sum up is pretty much " ( Read more... )