Why can't people just play by the rules?

[jackshoegazer]

My lit class got cancelled so I have an extra hour or so to read Oedipus Rex for my mythology class. I am going to go do that now. After these important messages:

Here are the polling graphs for the swing states. You can see quite a clear trend going on.

Please, go vote! If you live in one of the thirty states with early voting, go vote early. It may seem like Obama's destined to win, but there is massive voter suppression going on.  We need every single vote.  In this election, every vote is important - every vote might not get counted but every vote will count.

Because this is the kind of shit we have to contend with:

The oldest trick in the book: Phony board of elections flier tells Virginia Democrats to vote on November 5.

The Virginia Pilot reports today that a phony Virginia Board of Elections flier is being distributed in Hamption Roads, VA telling Democrats that they are now scheduled to vote on November 5. The flier falsely claims that "an emergency session of the General Assembly" adopted a new voting schedule to "ease the load" at polling places on election day.

The give-away? The Virginia State Board of Elections actually knows how to spell electoral.

source: think progress/The Virginian-Pilot

Seriously people, there's only one week left and this will most likely be the most important election of our lives.  Unless you're planning to move to the Himalayas and become a monk, which will be very a crowded place if McCain and the Evil Lizard Republitards steal this election.

Comments

[hellocthulhu.livejournal.com]

Wow, conservatives are just evil.

Their desperation smells delicious. I look forward to their tears of terror on November 5th when Obama annihilates McCain. Now they get to know how the rest of us felt when they re-elected retarded monkeyboy back in 04.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

November 4th!! NOT the 5th!! Annihilation comes on the 4th - unbridled gloating comes on the 5th!!

[hellocthulhu.livejournal.com]

But we probably aren't going to have a final tally until at least the AM hours of the 5th, and I prefer to know exactly how much I'm gloating by. 350 is so much sweeter than just rolling over 270.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

How about a 269-269 tie? Wouldn't THAT be exciting!

(In the event of an Electoral College tie, the House votes for who gets to be president and the Senate votes for who gets to be Vice President. Just imagine, we could end up with a McCain/Biden presidency or better yet, an Obama/Palin presidency! Not really, because we have a majority in both the Senate and the House, so no worries!)

[hellocthulhu.livejournal.com]

Oh man, an Obama/Palin White House would be awesome! She'd have no real power, so we could just keep her around for amusement purposes. People like her are great for laughs when they have no ability to actually fuck shit up.

We'd have to keep Obama locked inside NORAD for the next 8 years though, just to make sure nothing happened to him.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

Coincidentally I have been planning to vote today after work. According to madison.com the lines have been pretty long even for early voting. Crazy.

Oedipus is doomed.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

YAY!

My voting place has never been too busy, so I'm hoping it will stay that way. I mean I hope it will be crazy busy because everyone in the entire district is voting! But I tend to vote later in the evening when most people are having dinner, so I'm gonna aim for that lull in the Obamania.

[kiwikat.livejournal.com]

My polling place isn't usually that busy either, but Brian told me all about how voting early helps Barack in the polls and such, and I'd like to go to bodypump on election day, so I'm voting today. I hope that the line is AWFUL because EVERYONE votes. : )

[echoardi.livejournal.com]

i had an absentee ballot because of moving and stuff... so hopefully all things were kosher with it

[weishaupt.livejournal.com]

What makes you think the Himalayas will be safe? I'll only be passing through there trying to find Shamballah and tell old Rigden Gyelpo Kalki Maitreya to prepare to kick some Space Lizard ass.

[jackshoegazer.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to imply it would be safe, but merely that the thumb of the Republitards is less oppressive there. For now.