Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine Dear God let election day be over!

I mean it. Seriously. I have had it up to here with the damn tv commericials, the lying spin, the incessant ramblings of the talking heads, the spinners, the brylcreme boys and hairsprayed, helmet-haired harridans.

LET IT END!

This is why I'm glad I live in a country that bans political TV ads

This too shall pass

Not for awhile. I mean, this election will end, but the mood in Washington will linger until folks do something about it.

Almost, thank grife.

We didn't have very many of those nasty commercials until the last few weeks and I'm already so sick of the accusations and outright falsehoods I could scream.
I swear, if I were gay I would be SO pissed off right now. The innuendo, the smears, the downright disgusting slander and the attempt at marginalizing 1/10th of the population has me boiling mad.
-heh- I guess I'm pissed after all.

I'm rather looking forward to excercising my civic duty tomorrow.

While I can't vote, since I've never become a U.S. citizen, I'm on pins and needles. For sure, I will be glued to the television until the wee hours of the morning.

This is a weird coincidence but there were 3 American kids and their dad on the same bus as me tonight. (What they were doing in Hackney is a mystery - it aint too tourist friendly!) Anyway, they were about 8 to 10 years old and this kid piped up with "at our school election we all voted for Bush - coz Kerry wants to make men marry men."

Yikes! I hope the grown ups had a better grip of "the issues".

Let's all hope so CK. Tomorrow's the day. I plan to get to the poll in the early AM so I can get my part done as early as possible. Here in Redneckville I don't expect to have to worry too much about incredibly long lines but it never hurts to be prepared.

I'm sure they didn't. Kids that young get that stuff straight from the mouth of Mommy and Daddy, for good or for ill.

I'm voting early as well. I hope to get it done quickly and then not worry about the results for the rest of the day.

The presidential election won't be over tomorrow night, because of three of the most fearsome words in the English language:

Twenty thousand lawyers.

Deployed by both wings of the War Party, all around the country. If we have a resolution by Thanksgiving, it'll be a miracle. And, like in 2000, it'll be both entertaining and horrifying.

In a scene reminiscent of Leslie Neilsen in Airplane, Faraway opens the door

“All of us here in Britain just want to say to you voters, well done; we are all counting on you”


Closes door.

SIgn in here once you've voted! I'm leaving here shortly to excercise my right to be late for work to vote!

I voted.

Not only that, i got to watch as a democratic "watcher" passed over her papers and prepared to watch for "voting irregularity".

I certainly voted irregularly. Lets see, I voted normal for pres/vice pres. and the open Hollings seat in senate, and then i voted for bill the cat, daffy duck, Rob Everybody for country treasurer...the list goes on.

(Don't worry, my write-ins wont have any effect, the dems in a highly gerrymandered state are running unopposed.

Now to all the candidates...SHUT THE HELL UP!

I voted!

I expected to be challenged, actually, as I am known to side with folks who want to oust a local corrupt judge. But I wasn't.

Had to resist a last-minute impulse (no pun intended) to vote for Nader again... when the 'blame Nader' Democrats climb on their legless horses, they piss me off.

Bah! Didn't get to vote yet-- my precinct is different now. Will have to do it after work.

Being in America all last week made me realise how glad I am that here in the UK there are *very* strict rules about electioneering. All the TV ads made me so bloody cross. Not that there were millions of them, that i could just about cope with, but the fact that every single one of themm just laid into the opponent and tried to smear them. Not one of them said anything positive about the candidate they were speaking for (and we're talking the Presidential and the senate elections here) or had anything to do with their policies or anything. They were little more than votriolic attacks on other candidates that didn't tell you anything at all about the people they wanted you to vote for. I just don't understand the point. Surely politicians should be elected because of what they stand for, because you agree with them, because you think they will make a better state/country/world/whatever *not* because the other guy is a corrupt bastard. What depresses me most about that is that the majority of the population will only ever see those smeer campaigns. Much as it galls me to admit it most people (and I'm not talking just about the US here) don't watch news programmes or political debates or anything like that, but they do watch TV ad breaks and as such probably the majority of Americans will base their decisions on these pernicious little attacks rather than what the candidates stand for. It's not that the US voters are stupid or anything, just that if that's the standard of the electioneering then the majority are going to be woefully uninformed.

Here in the UK all parties are very closely goverened as to what they can and can't say. The kind of half-turths and negative spin that the US ads are filled with would never be allowed here. Sure you get attacks from all sides about everyone else, but the majority of it is about what said party will actually *do*. It's about information rather than disinformation, which seems to be severely lacking in the US. I'm not saying that the political system here is perfect, or that the system in the US is awful, just the way that electioneering is done in the US really got me wound up.

All that being said I do hope as many people as possible vote. Regardless of whether you are one of the groups that has been completely ignored by both parties (gay, black, women, working class, poor... uh, everyone apart from middle to upper class white men really. ) it's your chance to make a difference. Personally I want to see the back of Bush as soon as possible (not that Kerry is exactly an angel mind...) but as long as you vote you're doing your bit.

Oh, and one more thing about political coverage in the US, does anyone actually believe Fox News? I've never seen such a pile of partisan drivel from a supposedly impartial news station before. Most of the others (CNN and so on, including the smaller local stations) were pretty much even and seemed to be reporting the facts fairly evenly but Fox should really have just sat there and said 'yeah, OK, we're part of the BUsh campaign, live with it' and at least then everyone would know where they stand.

Went to vote this morning, but there were like 200 people in line OUTSIDE of the building! I hope this means that more people are voting than ever before in my short life!

Will vote after work!

Waiting 2 months for the new Legion #1 is already too much for me; at least I hope the name of the next president will be known sooner!

In a scene reminiscent of Leslie Neilsen in Airplane, Faraway opens the door

“All of us here in Britain just want to say to you voters, well done; we are all counting on you”


Closes door.

I voted on the way home from work this morning. The polling place was pretty much empty when I went in, but it was outside the normal rush times so I wasn't too surprised.

God, I'll be so glad when this is over, mainly because of the local race for an open Congressional seat. The two candidates have spent the better part of the last six months running probably the most negative campaign I've ever seen at this level. After all this time I *still* have no idea what either candidate actually plans to do if elected, just how much of a schmuck they think the other candidate is. I've gotten so sick of it I was actually hoping there'd be a third party candidate running just so I wouldn't have to vote for either of the major paty idiots. There wasn't, of course, so I just skipped that line on the ballot entirely. Neither of them earned my vote.

It was kind of funny though, as I was pulling up in front of the polling place I heard a friend of mine call in to the radio morning show I listen to, and basically let the DJ's decide who he would vote for in the Presidential Election with a coin toss (it came up tails-Kerry, BTW).

Hey Bevis,

Totally agree with you. All election campaign commericals are total smear jobs aganist the other. It is freaking terrible.

And about FOX news, you are right on. I actually use that as a barometer when meeting people. If they like Fox news and thinks that they are "fair and balanced" I know that we will not get along that well. If Fox news is not more pro bush then I am a Monkey Eater Lad's Uncle! I can't stand Fox News and people who defend it as being unbias and that it is not pro bush!

Aww you're just sore that being fair and balanced naturally leads one to be supportive of Bush.

Seeriously I am happy today for Election Day. The biggest reason is that the school I teach at is used as a voting precinct so I get the day off!!! But as far as the negativity goes between the two sides, it is an unfortunate side effect of freedom of speech. I am tired of all ofthe recorded messages on my answering machine, though.

Super Lad Kid.

Let me add something to clarify. I would have no probelm with FOX news if they came out and side that they want to represent the "Right" and that they are a conservative news station. I wouldn't have a problem if they came out and said that they are Pro-Bush. I have no problem with any of that. What I do have a problem with is their denial that they are not conservative and they are a news service. When a majority of their commentators are know conservative commentators or have written books (Ann Coultler and that other guy) with a conservative bent then how can they say that they aren't bias? How can they say that their personal beliefs aren't effecting the way they are reporting the news?

Now I will get off my soapbox.

I voted this morning and I am so glad the election is almost over.