I have used, perhaps sparingly, the soapbox.
I have been in, if only briefly, the jury box.
I have used the ballot box.
And I have used that one to avoid using that other box.

I hope it's enough. I really do.

On Tuesday I voted. I did not for, I voted against. I voted against an existential threat. I was not, am not, happy with what that required. I fear I gave a vote to someone who will turn out to be another LBJ (that is NOT a compliment). Unfortunately the alternative was far worse. Did I mention existential threat? Yes, really. No, not overstating ( Read more... )

Poll A Tuesday in August?

Poll Premeditating Election Aftermath 2012

Poll Don't Vote Uffda Graycloud for President; there are bigger asses running.

Poll With apologies to Sydney Harris...

Poll The news wouldn't be the news without the news...

Due to my schedule, I was completely unaware of recent events due to sleeping right through them. A quick skiming of my LJ friends list revealed something was amiss. A bit more searching and more detail came out. If you're wondering where the voice(s) on "the right" saying this was a bad thing are, a few are right hereI've seen some folks going ( Read more... )

This is the big one here. Minnesota will have (another!) automatic recount due to a close (within 0.5%) vote. Mark Dayton (DFL) appears to have narrowly won as our next Governor. The recount will not even start until all the counties have certified their results so it will be a couple weeks. Then the (re)counting... Gov. Pawlenty has said he' ( Read more... )

Very locally, my ward had one person listed on the ballot for city council. There was another candidate, running as a write-in.The result was 514 to 484. I suspect had the write-in been on the ballot outright, the result would have gone the other way. Fortunately, while I think the write-in would have been the better choice, the winner isn't a ( Read more... )