tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post5731328303543808972..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Your One Vote Counts!Roberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-16669160855779965782012-09-26T22:30:01.724-04:002012-09-26T22:30:01.724-04:00Srsly, food for thought. I'm slightly minded t...Srsly, food for thought. I'm slightly minded to vote only in the non partisan elections and let the fools pick their master.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-60719353916640311342012-09-26T22:27:24.454-04:002012-09-26T22:27:24.454-04:00Or a vote for the right guy?Or a vote for the right guy?Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-20257153817899500112012-09-26T21:38:58.564-04:002012-09-26T21:38:58.564-04:00A couple of days after the "Dewey Beats Truma...A couple of days after the "Dewey Beats Truman" gaffe, the Trib did a count that demonstrated just one more R vote in each Cook County precinct would have made Tom Dewey president. And the "Eastern Establishment" would have taken charge in 1948, instead of '74. <br /><br />I will not write a probable alternate history here, but the EA is a primary cause of the mess we are in. <br /><br />So yes, one more vote in ONE precinct could tip the scales. If you want change, boogie on down to the polls and vote. Even if you only cancel out a vote for the wrong guy. <br /><br />StrangerStrangerhttp://extranosalley.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-66341061019738363002012-09-26T16:32:09.025-04:002012-09-26T16:32:09.025-04:00Actually, one's Vote does Count. At least on ...Actually, one's Vote does Count. At least on the Local Level. I've helped shoot down many local Tax Increases, prevented a Hack or two from getting on the City Council, kept the local Library System Up and Running (Yeah Books!) etc.<br /><br />It's just that my Vote can be diluted on the National Scale.<br /><br />But there's always the Vote Count of Bush vs Gore that was what, 4,000 or so Votes that swung the Election?<br /><br />Of course, I take great pleasure in the fact that Ralph Nader took a couple of million Votes AWAY from Al Gore. Kind of explains WHY Algore has gone Enviromentally Wacko. 2 million Votes and the Presidency lost all because he wasn't GREEN enough....Bubblehead Les.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00730873284089958084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-25886683282888864832012-09-26T13:24:42.501-04:002012-09-26T13:24:42.501-04:00It'd be a more accurate reflection of the stor...It'd be a more accurate reflection of the story to say "your one non-vote counts!".<br /><br />A guy who votes write-in for someone who doesn't get any other votes is, outcome-wise, indistinguishable from one who doesn't vote at all. So in order for his one vote to have made all that much difference, one must assume that (of the major-party candidates running in that election) his preference would have been for the one who lost. Because if he hadn't voted at all, the guy who actually won would still have won.<br /><br />So it sounds like the message is more like: "Hey, liberals! No matter how disgusted you are with the Democrats generally and your Democrat in particular, you can't afford to vote for the Greens or write in 'Kermit the Frog' this year!" (Substitute "conservatives", "Republicans", "Libertarians", and "John Galt" as appropriate.)lelnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08600824544185328505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-55968638806463497322012-09-26T12:29:26.352-04:002012-09-26T12:29:26.352-04:00
Exercising your right to vote, may be an ex...<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Exercising your right to vote, may be an exercise in futility, but at least it gives me the right to complain, instead of just reacting to the garbage that come out of the bowels of the government.<br /><br />The problem today, is that a large number of voters, are uninformed as to what they are really voting for. A large number of voters, know more about their favorite football team, than they do about Constitutional American Government.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Panamarednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-57998885212583070462012-09-26T10:06:19.659-04:002012-09-26T10:06:19.659-04:00Imagine if the vote for Judge David came down to a...Imagine if the vote for Judge David came down to a few votes, or to one, vote.<br /><br />Anyway...I've heard a similar one-vote-changes-history story, but it was a chain of events in which one man's vote brought a particular person into a regional/state office, then that person gave the deciding vote on a replacement for a Federal CongressCritter, than that CongressCritter was the deciding vote on...inviting Texas into the Union.<br /><br />It doesn't pass the smell test, as we can't know if the losers of each of those contests would have voted the other way each time.<br /><br />Besides, Snopes has collected <a href="http://www.snopes.com/history/govern/onevote.asp" rel="nofollow">lots of references</a> to such stories, with corrective details for most of them.karrdehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00205160745963596856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-84786330823636486412012-09-26T08:13:42.249-04:002012-09-26T08:13:42.249-04:00Got oil in a lot of places already in this country...Got oil in a lot of places already in this country, too; why fight a war when you can just start drilling?<br /><br /> ...Why drill when you can reprocess organic waste? But nobody has been able to get a plant up and running for that.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-51895009253137468132012-09-26T06:53:36.229-04:002012-09-26T06:53:36.229-04:00But Canada's got oil. So do Mexico and Venezu...But Canada's got oil. So do Mexico and Venezuela.<br /><br />Jeeper's peepers, but I've been saying all along if we're going to have wars for oil, shouldn't we have some where we could be a little more logistically lazy and pick spots we can walk or drive to? And at the end of the day have some oil?Brian J.http://brianjnoggle.comnoreply@blogger.com