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So who's lever did ya yank?

Who's lever didya yank?

John McCain (Rep)	6 votes
Barack Obama (Dem)	19 votes
Bob Barr (Libertarian)	0 votes
Roger Calero (Socialist Worker)	0 votes
Gloria La Riva (Socialism & Liberation)	0 votes
Cynthia McKinney (Green)	1 votes
Ralph Nader (Populist)	2 votes
Write-in/None of the Above	1 votes
Skipped it altogether	0 votes

Frayed Knot Nov 04 2008 11:31 AM

Just click and stay anonymous if you want, or tack on your comments loud and proud and give us the whys and wherefores

Willets Point Nov 04 2008 11:32 AM

I filled in a circle with a pen. There were no levers involved.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 04 2008 11:33 AM

Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D, IL)

Nymr83 Nov 04 2008 11:35 AM

I think that beyond McCain, Obama, Barr, and McKinney theres nobody else who will appear on all 50 states ballots. I assume the choices above are your state's?

seawolf17 Nov 04 2008 11:40 AM

Ralph Fucking Nader (I, CT) Sure, I lean Democratic on most issues, but eff big business and the moneyed interests. I want a guy who seems to give a crap about actual people, and wants to do things like cut the budget and focus on the environment and on unions and public health insurance. Viva Ralph!

Willets Point Nov 04 2008 11:41 AM

I've never heard of Calero nor La Riva. I also wonder why they're splitting the Socialist vote when it's well known that Obama is the Socialist candidate.

Frayed Knot Nov 04 2008 11:47 AM

Nymr83 wrote: I think that beyond McCain, Obama, Barr, and McKinney theres nobody else who will appear on all 50 states ballots. I assume the choices above are your state's? Yeah, I just yanked them off my Sunday paper's ballot. Could have thrown several of them under 'Other' but whatthehell

Nymr83 Nov 04 2008 11:54 AM

Willets Point wrote: I've never heard of Calero nor La Riva. I also wonder why they're splitting the Socialist vote when it's well known that Obama is the Socialist candidate. I know you're being facetious, but in truth the Socialist party would run a candidate even if the Democratic party runs one they like. If the Republican candidate were Ron Paul I'm pretty sure there would still be Libertarian parties around the country running someone else out there. The biggest issue is staying on the ballot, if a party falls in line behind a major party candidate now they could easily fail to meet whatever requirements a state has to automatically be on future ballots, receive state funds, or whatever else when a candidate they don't like is running.

Frayed Knot Nov 04 2008 11:56 AM

It's just that those differing Socialist parties rings of the People's Front of Judea arguing with the Judean People's Front.

Nymr83 Nov 04 2008 11:58 AM

Nobody wants to make an obvious joke about the title of this thread?

Willets Point Nov 04 2008 12:00 PM

Nymr83 wrote: ="Willets Point"]I've never heard of Calero nor La Riva. I also wonder why they're splitting the Socialist vote when it's well known that Obama is the Socialist candidate. I know you're being facetious, but in truth the Socialist party would run a candidate even if the Democratic party runs one they like. That, and the fact that the right-of-center Obama isn't really a Socialist and real Socialists probably find it insulting to hear his policies called Socialist. Frayed, LOL.

Nymr83 Nov 04 2008 12:46 PM

]right-of-center Obama you have a warped perception of "center." Obama is on the far left of the U.S. Senate and the Democratic Party, which has itself taken a sharp turn to the left post-Clinton.

Willets Point Nov 04 2008 12:57 PM

Nymr83 wrote: Obama is on the far left of the U.S. Senate These are relative terms. Obama is the "most liberal senator" because the rest of the Senate (except Bernie Sanders) is pretty conservative. On the universal scale of political beliefs, Obama is near the center. There's a difference between relatively liberal and liberal. It's like the intelligence that Bush used to get the country into the war on Iraq. He said it was the "best intelligence" and it was the best intelligence made available to him. It just wasn't good intelligence. See the difference?

Nymr83 Nov 04 2008 01:06 PM

what is the "universal scale" of political beliefs? does that include 3rd world communist dictatorships? i suppose by that standard he's "right" of center, but my standard would be American politics, and he's clearly to the left (as is the current senate)

Benjamin Grimm Nov 04 2008 01:18 PM

McCain's doing better here than he did in our two pre-election polls. Maybe this is the "tightening" of which he spoke.

Willets Point Nov 04 2008 01:21 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 04 2008 01:53 PM

Nah, I was thinking more of worldwide democracies including the US, Canada, most of Europe, Australia, New Zealand et al. The Republican and Democratic parties in the US are both right of center on that political spectrum and the US really has no major left wing party. Even if you limit things to just the US, there's a definite shift to the right the past 3 decades so that Nixon had a more liberal record than Clinton. Put Obama in a time machine to 1980 and he'd be a Reagan Democrat compared to the far more liberal Congress of that time.

Edgy DC Nov 04 2008 01:31 PM Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Nov 04 2008 01:37 PM

The most recent poll of DC (American Research Group, September 11-13) shows Obama winning 82% of the vote here. The uninspiring John Kerry won 91.6% here. I'd expect Obama to win 96%.

Nymr83 Nov 04 2008 01:32 PM

I disagree re: the US political spectrum but I don't think we're going to get anywhere on that. edit- DC is a joke. Whoever has the (D) next to their name would win it, they could be a convicted serial-killer.

Edgy DC Nov 04 2008 01:36 PM

It's my home. It's not a joke.

Benjamin Grimm Nov 04 2008 01:49 PM

Yeah. Don't take any shit from someone who lives in Staten Island!

Fman99 Nov 04 2008 01:52 PM

Aw, I was hoping "yer mama" would be a choice. I voted the Democratic party line as usual.

Nymr83 Nov 04 2008 01:54 PM

Fman99 wrote: Aw, I was hoping "yer mama" would be a choice. i really thought you were our best hope for the "i yanked my own lever" joke

Benjamin Grimm Nov 04 2008 02:12 PM

I second that.

Willets Point Nov 04 2008 02:18 PM

Or "I didn't yank a lever, I punched that cunt in the neck."

soupcan Nov 04 2008 03:03 PM

Barry H. O'Bama pullin' away.

A Boy Named Seo Nov 04 2008 03:05 PM

I proudly voted for the white-flag waving, PLO-loving, secret tape-hiding, Muslim Socialist Terrorist black guy. God help us all!

themetfairy Nov 04 2008 03:23 PM

A Boy Named Seo wrote: I proudly voted for the white-flag waving, PLO-loving, secret tape-hiding, Muslim Socialist Terrorist black guy. God help us all! You left out Ivy League elitist.

TheOldMole Nov 04 2008 06:24 PM

Obama on the Working Families Party line.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 04 2008 08:24 PM

I pulled it for obama. In and out in less than an hour -- woulda been faster but we waited while a guy pounded on the bsck of the booth with a hammer -- presumably to fix it. And because I think what this country needs is a pussy muslim terrorist. No, seriously, I think he's closer to where the us of a oughta be.

cooby Nov 04 2008 08:40 PM

Straight democrat

Vic Sage Nov 05 2008 08:19 AM

gosh, i'm glad my vote for Nader didn't tip NY into the red column.

sharpie Nov 05 2008 10:07 AM

I voted Obama. So, who came in third?

seawolf17 Nov 05 2008 02:07 PM

="Vic Sage"]gosh, i'm glad my vote for Nader didn't tip NY into the red column. See, Vic, sometimes we agree.

Vic Sage Nov 05 2008 02:09 PM

hey, Wolfie... even broken clocks are right twice a day :)