Please Vote.

[crabb622]

My Texan friend had to queue for all of 10 minutes. But you can't disenfranchise white, middle class republicans quite as easily as you can disenfranchise minorities who are voting for the other guy anyway.
The US has a really crazy system where they elect their election officials, gerrymandering electorates is accepted practice and tampering is a time-honoured tradition. Dead people turning up to vote is hardly something new.

In Aus we often have to queue to vote, but we have compulsory voting, and the vote is held on a Saturday. Many polling stations are at primary schools, and these schools take the opportunity to hold bake sales and the like, so you get an almost carnival atmosphere on election day. It's a lot of fun, especially for political junkies.

 

[spicy]

My thoughts exactly. I was sitting in a pub in downtown Melbourne, Aus, and we cheered the Warren, Akin and Mourdock results probably as loudly as we cheered the final presidential result. Great day to call yourself sane. Now if Michelle Bachmann had managed to lose as well it would have been perfect, but I guess we can't get greedy.

 

[Jimmix]

the rate of voter fraud in this country is in the thousands of percentage points. something like 0.0001. i wouldn't call that "hardly something new". the whole point of voter id acts around the usa is to keep people from voting.

 

[caseyp]

what a joke that you pick up on him for this when all the coverage of this election (as usual) has been obsessed with demographics. How many white people voted ? how many black people between the ages of 40 and 50 voted ? how many latino's came out to vote ? who did the majority of NASCAR fans vote for ? the media outlets of your country wear its social divisions like a badge of honour so its not fair to scoff at someone talking about the Cuban community in Florida like its not a recognized entity.

 

[Ludeen]

I think this observation is a luxury of the majority. We (white, heterosexual males) are still the default setting in this country. Our interests are pretty well addressed as a default. I think you'd probably feel very differently about this sort of differentiation if you were part of a group whose interests were less automatically served. Just my view.

 

[p3ar]

If you watch Obama's acceptance speech from last night there is a part where he thanks people who voted, and acknowledges that people had to wait in line.

:ause::

::slightly angry voice:: "We'll have to fix that"

Moves are said to have been made (prior to the election) to thwart voting by making it a hassle to vote, which is what I understand he was touching on.

 

[elthoro94o]

Its hard for me to be optimistic about the future. I fear the deficit will continue to spiral until we can no longer afford it. Then the bottom will drop out. Then we are all screwed.

 

[meereemak]

It would have been a damn sight worse under Romney

 

[jubeliah]

Yep screwed. You might have to get a slightly smaller TV and not go supersize on your Mcdonald's meal.*

*Not that I'm belittling financial hardship for anyone but it does kind of annoy me when someone in the richest first world nation the world has ever seen thinks they are screwed.

 

[ginger_jj]

Man I HOPE things get apocalypse bad in the states now ::rolls eyes::

That way, because of the last 4 years of my life, I'll be well suited to survive in such a world. I can hunt, build shelter, navigate, everything you need to know how to do in such a "end of world" predicament. I hope this only because my wife has NO CLUE about how hard life can really get, and it would give me extreme joy to have her realize I'm worth a lot more then what she thinks about me and my lack of education because I'm the reason she has something to eat and doesn't get wet when it rains. That's right, screw everybody else, I just want my wife to have to live hard so she has more appreciation for me.

 

[Electorial_farce]

We weren't so rich during the great depression now were we. We may be facing a second depression at some point. If all it means for me is a smaller tv and smaller meals i'll consider myself fortunate.

 

[punkkid917]

Maybe you can be my survivalist teacher.

 

[Just_Another_Day]

For sure. But let's not pretend you'll be living in Freetown, Sierre Leone rather than Miami, Florida when it happens.
There's screwed and then there's SCREWED.

 

[shirls]

I'm Dutch, so I'm not voting for either mate.

And why on earth would anyone take no experience and youth, over experience? That sounds like a political system set to fail. Plus the kid was 19!!! I hardly had my life together at 19! Could barely imagine being a mayor of a state at that age.



Americans are already learning Spanish mate. It's about freaking time too, living so close to so many Spanish speaking countries, I have no clue why they never mandatorily started teaching Spanish earlier in American history.

As for learning Arabic, that's totally asinine. That could be (but isn't) applicable to both nominees.

Maybe instead of funding the Arab countries with oil money, why don't Americans join us Dutch in the development of clean, renewable types of energy? Comm'on wij hebben uw hulp nodig!!

 

[Gabrio]

Some people were. There just wasn't much "trickle down."

 

[Yug]

Now for the life of me I can't think of an American political party that favours people holding onto their wealth while others struggle to stay fed and healthy when times are hard. Erm...the Democrats maybe?

 

[sport]

learn chinese or hindi.

they out number you.

 

[scottliz2005]

I would move to Vancouver BC and become a Canadian in a second. Gorgeous city. It's like a cleaner Seattle with politer people. And the Asian District there is amazing. Great food, great people as far as I'm concerned.

 

[afireinsidexxx77]

Dead people voting? What?



This.



LuLz!

 

[DopeBoyMagic]

I wasn't arguing for voter ID laws for a second. They are again about disenfranchising people who don't vote republican.
As for the dead getting up to vote, the 1960s are calling.