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Reply #29: I vote every time the polls are open and still have Republicans representing me. [View All]

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QC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-17-08 10:28 AM
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29. I vote every time the polls are open and still have Republicans representing me.
I guess I'm just fucked, in your breezy, casual recounting of voter responsibility. I guess I should be glad I'm even allowed to vote at all and should not be so presumptuous as to expect that my vote actually mean anything.

But I do agree that neither candidate was concerned about our votes until the election turned out to be closer than expected. Both thought they could just throw away Florida and Michigan, but then reality--and raw self-interest--intervened.

As for the rules, we all agree that anarchy is not a good thing in conducting an election, but let's not forget that "the rules" everyone is squawking about are rules designed to give two tiny, lily-white microstates a monopoly on both parties' presidential nominations. These rules are responsible for such abominations as the ethanol mandates that have brought us $4 milk and $5 cereal, and they usually result in us nominating losers, since the choice of white farmers in remote corners of the nation is not necessarily very appealing to other sorts of people everywhere else. It's time to end the IA/NH duopoly, not defend it by disenfranchising nearly 10% of the nation.

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