Don't get mad, Get registered

Posted: 9/3/08 at 11:07pm

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.

[madbrian]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 11:09pm

I did my civic duty today. I'm already registered, but today I talked two would-be McCain voters out of voting for him (staying home or going 3rd party) by walking them through Palin's positions on the issues based on her own words.

[cubanpab]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 11:19pm

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

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 9/3/08 at 11:25pm

Per the Obama campaign:

"In the next 36 hours, the McCain campaign will be pouring millions of dollars -- if not tens of millions -- into negative attack ads against Barack Obama.

Before John McCain accepts the Republican nomination on Thursday, his campaign has to spend every last dollar of primary funds they've raked in from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs. "



Any amount will do:

[jrb_actor]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 12:00am

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

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 12:06am

C10 and I plan on traveling to Indiana to campaign in late November!

[Weez]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 8:46am

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!

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 9:11am

I just got my postcard in the mail telling me where my polling place is (like it changes...), but it doesn't make the decision any easier. Because MaCain is becoming such a lapdog for the Christian right and is basing his decisions on their say, I can't in good conscience even consider him anymore, but I'm not fond of Obama either.

Guess I'll be closing my eyes, holding my nose and pulling the lever for Obama and hope for the best....

[Mistress Overdone]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 10:29am

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!

[violet72]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 10:47am

I have been registered since 1996...I work with High School students and I brought the ones who turned 18 information on how to register and all of them are registered to vote

[uncageg]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 10:56am

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.

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 10:59am

I don't like Bob Barr, Ralph Nader's unrealistic and I couldn't vote for a candidate whose sole issue is right to life. What left...the Worker's Party?

In 1980, the first time I voted for president, I did go third party...and proudly. Even though he had no chance of winning, I really admired John Anderson. If there was someone who approached that level today, I would go outside the box.

Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:01am

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

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 11:07am

Under normal circumstances, it would, but Obama to me is still something of an empty shirt to me at this point. I still see no there there.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 12:16pm

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.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 12:18pm

Marianne, I registered shortly after I began my freshman year of college as I had just turned 18 then. I actually felt very proud when I did.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 12:23pm

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.

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 9/4/08 at 12:43pm

You can register to vote here or update your address. Please share the link with your friends and family.