A challenge

I despise Bush, but will vote my conscience. So far, Kerry has not proven to me that he represents a remotely liberal agenda. . .which, I admit, is tough for him to do, as he is running on the Democratic ticket (not exactly a liberal haven).



[Edited on Sep 10, 2004 by sixblueten]

ha like that mattered last election


but ya, growin up in alaska, ya dont really get this urge to vote cuz well...no one gives a shit about alaska or the what, 2 electorial votes? never once have i seen a commercial for a presidential candidate up there and never once has a campaining president ever bothered to come up there in recent history,


although bush was up in ak during the pipeline days, daddy shipped him up there to get over his coke habit

ACtually if you think about it, if you live in Alaska you should be more excited to vote than if you live in Texas, California or New York. Check it out. According to the FEC Alaska has 3 electoral votes, Hawaii has 4 electoral votes, New York has 31 and Texas has 34. According to statistics from the 2000 election Alaska had 473,000 registered voters who voted at a rate of 60%, Hawaii had 637,000 registered voters who voted at a rate of 57%, New York had 11,262,000 registered voters who voted at a rate of 62% and Texas had 10,267,000 registered voters who voted at a rate of 62% (I rounded them off just a tad.) If we assume an equivalent population growth rate and an identical voter participation rate for the 2004 election, that means that Alaska has approximately 94600 participating registered voters per electoral vote, Hawaii has 90770, New York has 225240 and Texas has 187220. That means that if you're in Hawaii or Alaska your vote is roughly worth twice the vote of someone from Texas and almost 2.5 times the vote of someone living in New York. So think about it that way - your vote is actually more important than the vote of someone living in a more populated state.

And am I the only person in the US voting for John Kerry because, well, I like the guy? I think he has a good senate record, he seems to have a lot of integrity (for a politician) and I think he'll do a good job leading the country.

No, you're not. I think the biggest failure on the part of Democrats or the Left or whatever is that, this late in the game, so many are still running an "anybody but Bush" campaign. I hear people all the time making excuses for Kerry and saying, "I don't really like him, but he's better than Bush." It's like people are afraid to admit they like him.

If the Democrats want to pull ahead in the polls before the election, they have to cut out this habit candidate-deprication and start talking (whether they believe it or not) about what a great guy Kerry is and what he can do for the country.

Of course, part of the problem is that the Kerry campaign is too busy parrying blows about his Vietnam record to get their message out, but anybody who claims John Kerry doesn't have a plan or doesn't have a strong position or is weak on defense, hasn't listened to a word he says and certainly didn't watch his acceptance at the convention.

Please, Democrats. Stop hating Bush and start paying attention to your own candidate if you want a victory in November.

I'm Mike Rickets and I approved this ad.

THIS GUY GETS MY VOTE OFF LOOKS ALONE

The thing about votes counting more is very interesting. But seriously about Kerry? I'm from Mass and he's ok. Nothing special. Nothing too presidential. Far better than the last guy who one the democratic nomination from mass. But he's no Tsongas.

So no. If it was he and Bush in 2000, before we knew how bad bushw as, before 9-11, I would not be voting for him.

I like Kerry as well. He wasn't my first choice, but what were the odds of people rallying around Kucinich? His platform is more in line with my interests than Clinton's was. whether or not much of it will be enacted is another story, but that's a fight for after the election.

I'm voting for Dean.

Could you all at least pretend to like Kerry? Just until after the election.

DON'T WASTE A THIRD PARTY VOTE ON A MEMBER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES!!! PLEASE!!!

Bush has lied. Bush has cheated. Bush has commited impeachable offenses. Period. Why havn't the numerous calls for impeachment ever stuck? Because the House of Representatives is in charge of drawing up articles of impeachment. The House is currently controlled by a Republican majority.

It is IMPERITIVE that the Democrats take back the House. This way, even if Bush wins, or 'wins', his way into another four years, he can at least be held accountable for the crimes he has commited.

So, even if you refuse to back one of the major two parties for president, please take the time and vote for the Democrat for the House of Representatives.

that is all.

I'm all in favor of a Democrat controlled house (no matter how unlikely that seems to be with the most recent gerrymandering efforts of the Republicans) and I'm no fan of some the shady shit that the Bush administration has pulled. But what, specifically, has he done to merit impeachment? The only thing I can think of is if the Valerie Plame thing could be traced back directly to him. I'll say this about the man - he's always been pretty skilled at keeping his own hands clean.

This year at least, voting has to become more than an abstract excercsize, make the polls useless, tell all your friends who haven't voted, to get out and vote.

i was going to vote for the one star trek dude in the primary because it was obvious that kerry was going to win anyway.. but instead i voted for kucicicnich.

anyway.. its naders fault gwb is president... NADER2004!!!!1111

Good points, everyone.

[Edited on Sep 11, 2004 by Sempi]