Comments | trooper6: Voting

trooper6

Voting

Feb 05, 2008 13:26

I'm off to vote for Obama. My Dad voted absentee for Edwards, and my sister, so angered by Edwards's exit from the race is refusing to vote at all.

*crosses fingers for Obama*

Then I'm going to the IHOP to work on my dissertation.

*crosses fingers for dissertation*

Comments 6

ebenbrooks February 5 2008, 21:28:38 UTC

Being Green, I voted for the candidate who lives four miles from me.

But in November, I will be voting against the Republican. Sigh...

trooper6 February 6 2008, 07:49:16 UTC

Wasn't Cynthia McKinney running on the Green ticket?

duckflambe February 6 2008, 17:20:35 UTC

That is very Green! By voting for a local candidate you are helping the environment by reducing transportation costs! ;)

Unfortunately my local candidate was Duncan Hunter. I just can't bring myself to vote for that...

whswhs February 5 2008, 22:06:28 UTC

I voted for Kubby, one of the three Libertarian candidates (out of twelve) who struck me as actually being libertarian. I'm hoping that Obama gets the Democratic nomination; I think I could bring myself to vote for him in the fall, whereas if Clinton's the nominee I'll vote for some third party candidate. Not the Republican: I really don't much care which of them gets the nomination, as all of them are intolerable-though I must admit I find Huckabee even viler than the rest.

trooper6 February 6 2008, 07:50:06 UTC

I'm not super jazzed about Hillary myself. But I would certainly vote for her over Huckabee...who just...I mean...that guy doesn't believe in science. That's a problem for me.

whswhs February 6 2008, 15:37:34 UTC

I have to take part of Clinton's platform personally: She wants to make health insurance compulsory, for everyone, and she has flatly refused to discuss how she will enforce this. I don't have health insurance, because I can't afford it. When I had it, five years ago, bare minimum catastrophic coverage cost me 16% of my gross income, and I was skipping doctor and dental visits because I was chronically broke-and then my rates went up, and I dropped, especially because I was about to turn 55 and face a big further jump in rates. I'm not sure I would be able to pay rent if I were forced to pay for health insurance at what it would cost me now. It's all very well to say that it's good for people to have something, but to force them to pay for it because you want them to have it, when they don't think they can afford it, is evil-and it's an evil that personally affects me ( ... )