I can't believe we share the same genes....my mother! Oy!

[CapnHook]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 8:24am

We went and voted in the NC Primary this morning. I only knew enough to vote for President, Senator, and Govenor.

My Mother takes twice as long as me. After, when I asked why, she said she voted in as many categories as she could and said "I recognized more names than I thought!" and was quite proud of herself. She knew NOTHING about ANY of the candidates and only voted for Hillary because I was voting for her. Otherwise, she said, she "probably would have voted for Obama."

I understand how people like Bush can be "elected" now.

[soapguy17]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 9:43am

Ha Ha! Some people should just stay home. , but as long as she's voting uninformed for the right person it's okay.

[lesmis]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 10:36am

I'll take any vote for Hillary even an uninformed one.

[Namaste]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 1:07pm

Meanwhile I spent hours upon hours researching everyone that would be on my ballot, going to their personal websites, reading interviews and questionnaires, reading any "bad" history or press on them if available, etc.

[thatgirl712]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 1:16pm

What can you do. We just have to tolerate this stuff.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/6/08 at 3:06pm

The Democratic party in Chicago has elevated this to high art. They can tell you how many votes you can get by having an Irish-sounding name, a Female name or being the first spot on the ballot. It was most famously exploited in the primary of 1986, when bland sounding candidates representing extreme ideals beat out fairly well-known but ethnic sounding candidates George Sangmeister and Aurelia Pucinski- who had thought they were running unopposed.

"At first everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't. In the March 18 Illinois primary, two zombified followers of right-wing extremist Lyndon LaRouche actually won the Democratic nominations for secretary of state and lieutenant governor. Janice Hart and Mark Fairchild won on the platform articulated in their cult's New Solidarity newspaper: eliminate Gramm-Rudman, fund Star Wars, test everyone for AIDS (and quarantine victims), and form a "Nuremberg Tribunal" to investigate drug dealing by Zionists and journalists, represented by Henry Kissinger and Katherine Graham, whom the LaRouchies want to hang for treason. Although Hart and Fairchild articulated their sick program to anyone who would listen, most of those who voted for them had no idea what they stood for.

Voters, particularly downstate, voted for the American-sounding names of Fairchild and Hart over the obviously foreign-sounding names of Sangmeister and Pucinski. "[N]o one had heard those foreign-sounding names, and from Chicago and its collar counties to Cairo in Little Egypt, people voted for white bread and American-sounding (i.e., WASP) names, knowing absolutely nothing about the candidates."

THE 1986 LAROUCHE ELECTION DEBACLE IN ILLINOIS