Don't get mad, Get registered

I know you're furious right now. She's awful. This convention is awful. Smug liars parading across a flag-wrapped stage to brag that the only people who can fix this mess are the ones who made it.

They are counting on you losing focus. Boycotting somebody who gave to her campaign. Doing a really pointed performance piece about a Moose hunting a governor. Don't get mad, get registered.

Are you registered to vote? Is every one of your friends? Go first thing tomorrow and register- your city hall or county clerk can do it. Keep bugging everyone you know.

Then make sure they vote. I have no doubt that if everyone who WANTED Al Gore had voted, he'd be president today. It has to be close for them to steal it. WE CAN'T LET THIS BE CLOSE.

i just moved so i need to get my NY license... i already started filling out the paperwork, i will NOT miss this election.

You don't have to have your NY license to vote. Just send in your voter registration card with your current address.

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negative attack ads

There's something just so... pathetic about negative attack ads. I mean, surely the point of advertising is to say "hey, I'm good!", whereas negative attack ads pretty much say "I've got nothing going for me, so I'm going to try and make myself look good by making the other guy look bad". And yet people still do them!

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broadwayjim42, that's when you write in a minor party candidate and send the message that you are sick and tired of the two-party system!

Well I am glad that I am watching the RNC. I was still feeling unsure even after actually being at Obama's acceptance speech (Which I think the staging was over the top but I noticed on the news this morning that they are re-building the stage at the RNC and it looks like the one Obama used at Mile High Stadium, only a different color.) but I now know how I am going to vote. broadwayjim, I will be doing almost the same as you. I just won't be closing my eyes! And we aren't pulling levers here, we are doing paper ballots.

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I too proudly cast my first presidential ballot for John B Anderson.

If it helps any, Jim, John Anderson endorsed Obama this year.

Updated On: 9/4/08 at 11:01 AM

Yeah, I got registered when I turned 18. What gets me is how people will complain about things our government does, but yet they aren't registered to vote because they don't care enough. I think it was a high school teacher I had my senior year who brought in forms for the class if we weren't registered yet, but I already was, and I think one of the few who was.

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Very true, I always forget that some people don't turn 18 until they are in college, so that is fine. But, I do know people who are over 18, not registered at all because they claim they will never care about anything the government does or it will not affect them.

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