US Mid-Term Elections 2006
Nov. 7th, 2006 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bjarvisToday is voting day for the US mid-term elections. It's been damn near impossible to miss: one can hardly see the forest --or anything else-- for the honkin' huge campaign signs everywhere. Entire rain forests have vanished feeding the electoral machine: billboards, roadside signs, mailings, flyers, handouts, brochures, "fact" sheets and so on. I don't get telephone calls from human beings anymore, just robo-dialers extolling the virtues of one candidate or maligning the character of another.
As a tax-paying resident but not a citizen of the US, I don't get a vote. I'm OK with that... voting is a special privilege not to be dispensed cheaply or trivially. Not having a vote however doesn't mean that I'm without opinions. Indeed, I maintain a surplus with extra warehouses of freeze-dried opinions ready to be rehydrated should an inconvenient opinion drought occur.
In the DC mayor's contest:
What contest? Seriously, this is a coronation. The only question is how low will the turn-out be and how high will Adrian Fenty's margin of victory be.
In our Maryland gubernatorial race:
I'm not particularly keen on voting for or supporting Democratic challenger Martin O'Malley. But I sooooo want to see Republican incumbent Robert Ehrlich unemployed. He's been a lousy governor and I want him out.
Canadian progressive-conservative senator & pundit Hugh Seagal said it best many years ago, and I paraphrase: "(Ontario) voters choose their gov't like they do their maid service: they must be cheap, they must be reliable, and for god's sake don't break anything." Ehrlich has broken a lot and done very little. He must go.
In our Maryland senate race:
I'm not particularly keen on supporting congresscritter Democrat Ben Cardin in his bid for a senate seat. But Republican Michael Steele was Ehrlich's lieutenant governor and shares the blame IMHO for much done badly. Steele must also join Ehrlich on the unemployment line.
In the Virginia senate race:
George Allan sucks. Jim Webb sucks. One racist, misogynistic bastard fighting another. I don't recall the last time two more vile characters were up against each other. If I had to pick, I'd hold my nose and go with Webb, just to do my part to break the Republican stronghold on the senate. I'd rather find some other candidate who is willing to bring Virginia into the 21st century instead of race backwards to the 18th.
In the Ohio gubernatorial race:
Blackwell is a vile and evil man. He must lose. Blackwell winning signals the beginning of the end times for democracy. He must lose. He is the embodiment of corruption and dirty, underhanded electoral tactics and an example must be made. For the sake of Ohio, he must lose. Fortunately, Strickland seems a pretty good guy and is double-digits in the lead and would have received my vote anyway if I had one and were a resident of Ohio. Now we just have to sink that idjit pro-smoking amendment to the state constitution...
In the Florida senate race:
What can we say about Kathleen Harris? She's the evil step-sister of Blackwell. Bumbling, incompetent, vain, short-sighted and more than a little unbalanced. Good thing Nelson has this wrapped up. Pity that closet-case Crist is still on track to take the governorship, but I'm looking forward to a day when no Bushes are in office anywhere.
As a tax-paying resident but not a citizen of the US, I don't get a vote. I'm OK with that... voting is a special privilege not to be dispensed cheaply or trivially. Not having a vote however doesn't mean that I'm without opinions. Indeed, I maintain a surplus with extra warehouses of freeze-dried opinions ready to be rehydrated should an inconvenient opinion drought occur.
In the DC mayor's contest:
What contest? Seriously, this is a coronation. The only question is how low will the turn-out be and how high will Adrian Fenty's margin of victory be.
In our Maryland gubernatorial race:
I'm not particularly keen on voting for or supporting Democratic challenger Martin O'Malley. But I sooooo want to see Republican incumbent Robert Ehrlich unemployed. He's been a lousy governor and I want him out.
Canadian progressive-conservative senator & pundit Hugh Seagal said it best many years ago, and I paraphrase: "(Ontario) voters choose their gov't like they do their maid service: they must be cheap, they must be reliable, and for god's sake don't break anything." Ehrlich has broken a lot and done very little. He must go.
In our Maryland senate race:
I'm not particularly keen on supporting congresscritter Democrat Ben Cardin in his bid for a senate seat. But Republican Michael Steele was Ehrlich's lieutenant governor and shares the blame IMHO for much done badly. Steele must also join Ehrlich on the unemployment line.
In the Virginia senate race:
George Allan sucks. Jim Webb sucks. One racist, misogynistic bastard fighting another. I don't recall the last time two more vile characters were up against each other. If I had to pick, I'd hold my nose and go with Webb, just to do my part to break the Republican stronghold on the senate. I'd rather find some other candidate who is willing to bring Virginia into the 21st century instead of race backwards to the 18th.
In the Ohio gubernatorial race:
Blackwell is a vile and evil man. He must lose. Blackwell winning signals the beginning of the end times for democracy. He must lose. He is the embodiment of corruption and dirty, underhanded electoral tactics and an example must be made. For the sake of Ohio, he must lose. Fortunately, Strickland seems a pretty good guy and is double-digits in the lead and would have received my vote anyway if I had one and were a resident of Ohio. Now we just have to sink that idjit pro-smoking amendment to the state constitution...
In the Florida senate race:
What can we say about Kathleen Harris? She's the evil step-sister of Blackwell. Bumbling, incompetent, vain, short-sighted and more than a little unbalanced. Good thing Nelson has this wrapped up. Pity that closet-case Crist is still on track to take the governorship, but I'm looking forward to a day when no Bushes are in office anywhere.
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Date: 2006-11-07 02:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-07 02:57 pm (UTC)I think he's about 75, more or less.
And yes, he would win, even dead.
;-)
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Date: 2006-11-07 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-07 04:01 pm (UTC)Or both.
Kennedy's website gives his birthdate as February 22, 1932, which would make him 74 at the present moment.
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Date: 2006-11-07 04:25 pm (UTC)