Today’s the big day. This is where all the efforts since the last election are finally realized. Some of us take it much more seriously than others. Some of us vote every time there is an election, regardless of issue. Others of us have to be dragged out, screaming and kicking, to exercise the most basic of American rights, while people in far away lands risk their very lives to do what some of us take for granted.
Poor Richard will be happy to be rid of the robo calls. I can’t say I disagree. I expect I have had over 10 a day for the past month. Many will be glad they no longer have to hear endlessly about the Virginia and New Jersey elections, before those 2 states settle back in to semi-obscurity, joining their other 48 sister states.
How is election day special to you? Is it just like any other day, where you squeeze in the polls just like another errand on the way home? Or is it a high holy day of Americana? Are you one of those who live and die for elections and politics?
Tell us your poll experiences? Uneventful? Full of seeing old friends and neighbors? Did you work the polls or did you do other work for your candidate of choice? Were the ‘dreaded union people’ out at your polling place?
I’m with PR about the robo-calls. I’ll be REALLY glad to NOT see those stupid TV ads. A couple of them just make me cringe.
I’ve NEVER missed voting in any election. We all need to get out and exercise our right to vote.
At the risk of signing like a commercial, sign up for Vonage. I haven’t gotten a single robo-call since 2004 when I switched to them. I get plenty of mailers but no robo-calls and very few telemarketers (the only ones I get are from companies I already am a customer of)
The down side of course is that you’d have to change your phone number.
I was the sixth in line in herndon at 6:00am this morning. Just like every year I beat the pollcats and party officials trying to pass out the sample ballots. All they can do is thank me for my vote as I walk out.
I fear it won’t do much good this year but I took a stand and did it anyway.
That’s more than the apathetic majority of Herndon can say!
I sure got them when I was with comcast and I wasn’t published then. I think they can ferret you out anyway. Actually I brought my phone number with me, so that explains that one.
Can you bring your number with vonage? And you still haven’t gotten tracked down?
How is your councilman doing, Rod? I am still gasping over how he talked to those ladies.
In Richmond we are having the first, Tour de Polls, where folks are riding bikes to the polls and some are touring all of the Richmond voting sites. Beautiful day for it!
Uneventful.
I pushed the button WITH ANGER. used to vote Democratic each time; feel they have totally abandoned me and most people.
Can’t wait to stop getting phone calls. I get callers from bother sides because I am openly an independent.
Totally agree. It galls me enough that these are the buffoons we have to choose from; to deal with their negative robo-calls and junk mail is like a poke in the eye.
They will come in until 7 pm tonight, I am sorry to say.
I think both sides left me. The Democrats aren’t a bit worse than the Republicans. Actually I think Creigh Deeds was more my kind of Democrat than I have seen in a long time. He truly is a moderate and he didn’t rely on coattails. (and see where that is getting him)
I have had a theory for a long time that people have to be ruled by an oppressive regeime before they realize they don’t like it. They get seduced by sound bites. I would rather have what we have now than to have to deal with social issues and church state issues for 4 years, but that’s just me. It would be nice not to have to deal with either at all.
The Councilman is silent and his groupies are playing him up as the Martyr. Rust lost my family’s vote for the first time this ever because he supported DeBenedittis/Husch/Herndon Minutemen campaign over Reece who was the only voice of reason running and truily had Herndon’s best interest at heart.
DeBenedittis and Husch have run the town into the gutter with all their pandering to anti-immigrant groups and lobbies, cutting funding from every institution (including the police) to fund their hair brain schemes to make Herndon more appealing to 500K+ incomers while trying to flush out the under 100K irreguardless of whether they grew up in that town or not.
DeBenedittis’ long term plan for Herndon is inspired by these 2 words alone…
“Reston Envy”
Speaking of elections / Herndon will be choosing a new set of of people on the dias at the Town Hall come May 2010.
With all the men hanging out on Elden Street these days, one can’t help but wonder where the Minutemen’s super photograhper is hiding out. The Chief M-man, however, is now on the Architectural Review Board. What’s next?
Who is the chief M-man? What does he want to erect as architecture? Little mini fences?
@Moon-howler
Well, you won’t have to wait long this time. Four years, I’d say!
Turnout was light at my polling place. About 30% of what it was in 2008. My precinct is generally about 60-65% Republican, although it was about 55% Republican in 2008, with a record voter turnout.
Nobody paid for exit polls so we’ll just have to wait another few hours.
Slow, state or fed? 😉
Whoever wins hopefully will reopen the rest stops and rob Peter to pay Paul some place else. everyone has their pet peeves. That is mine.
Well I’m sure it wouldn’t take too much to talk McDonnell into privatizing the rest stops like Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut have all done along I-95. Lease the land out, allow gas stations and fast food to be built and pocket a percentage of gross recipiets. Turn the rest stops into a revenue source and they’ll never be closed again.
Man you guys are still bitter over the Herndon law enforcement. You mean that you actually miss seeing hordes of men hanging on street corners? BTW, it’s pandering to the anti illegal-immigrant groups and lobbies. Keeping America for Americans strikes you as being wrong? How so rod?
SA, not sure if you have caught on yet but they don’t miss seeing hordes of men hanging on street coerners because they don’t live near these areas… they don’t see it every day.
I got a robo-call from John Bell last night. I could hear “YMCA” by the Village People playing in the background…..what was that about??
Hello, I believe the people who responded about Herndon do live right there in downtown herndon.
Formerly, that would be find with me if VA privatized the rest stops. I think there is some federal law that doesn’t allow them to do so. Rest stops fine, liquor stores no so fine. Someone on this blog knows the details. I don’t.
Hey Justin, Starry, and all my “Republicans don’t matter anymore” friends….I’m feeling very marginal tonight!
There are no surprises at least. And I hope the winners do a good job, stick to governing the state, and open up the rest areas.
Virginia is going RED tonight! Tee hee hee!
http://www.sbe.virginia.gov/cms/Election_Information/Election_Results/2009/November_General_Election.html
I wonder when all the sour grapes are going to start marginalizing the results…
that is a great point Moon, those rest areas do need to be opened and just maybe VA voted for change we can ACTUALLY believe in and it will get done.
I hope DHS keeps a close eye on all of the newly-angry liberals in Virginia 😉
@hello
>>>I wonder when all the sour grapes are going to start marginalizing the results
You won’t have to wait too long, I suppose. Check out the link I posted above. Even Manassas City went with the R’s 2:1. !!!
I’m giddy! FUBO! 🙂
I suppose your right RingDangDo… I just checked out Quief Olbermann and he is already at it, same with tingles (aka Chris Matthews)…
I would like to give a big shout out to all you those idiots whose constant name calling of tea party participants as ‘teabaggers’. Please keep it up, it’s only going to make even more conservatives come out in 2010.
Ahhhh, I’m bathed in “hope” and “change”!
Reports of the demise of the Republican party in Virginia have been greatly exaggerated, as I predicted long ago. When all you have to run on is your opponent’s 20-year-old term paper, you know you’re running a losing campaign. However, McDonnell won, and carried the down ticket races with him by running a strong, CENTRIST campaign, reaching out to independents rather than pandering to extremists. I hope that this serves as an example for other GOP candidates in Virginia and across the nation.
Yeah, what he said:
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/10/29/steele-virginia-a-blueprint-for-gop-success/
Emma, I think the problem is that all the angry liberals stayed home from the polls. Deeds was very much of a moderate.
I think 1974 was the last time the state election matched the White House. Mills Godwin was elected during the presidency of Gerald Ford. So it was all predictable. Virginia is also contrarian.
Slowpoke, I am actually enjoying watching you bask in the afterglow. Come January feet will be held to the fire.
Ring, doesn’t the city always go republican? I have never known it not to. Maybe I have just forgotten.
McDonnell has an opportunity now to really ease some pain. Let’s see if he delivers.
How about in New Jersey?
I have no idea. I don’t keep up with their politics, Hello. I probably should also throw in I don’t much care either. I am not a party person and haven’t been for about 15 years. I have been in both parties also. (not at the same time) I won’t lose sleep regardless of who wins. It looks like the Republican is winning.
Slow, what pain do you want him to ease? What has Tim done to you?
Virginia has been ranked number one again as the top state for business. This is nothing to sneeze at. Do you think McDonnell can hold on to the title?
Moon, Deeds also didn’t know to quit while he was ahead with the thesis business. After awhile, nobody cared, but he just wasn’t seeing that it was beginning to backfire while McDonnell’s ads were generally more positive and constructive. And the Post certainly didn’t help Deeds by beating that dead horse almost to the end.
“Virginia has been ranked number one again as the top state for business. This is nothing to sneeze at. Do you think McDonnell can hold on to the title?”
I think so and hope so, I think we all do… however, if you don’t think that VA election results play a bigger part politics then I suppose you don’t see any connection in Reids announcement today that a decision on health care won’t happen this year?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33605531/ns/politics-health_care_reform/
I think you can say see ya to cap and trade and possibly the public option in health care reform (or is it insurance reform?) now…
And now New Jersey. What’s that puckering sound I hear inside the beltway??
No argument from me on that one Emma. It was important, but not week after week after week. Elena and I just preached to the choir about this very subject tonight on the phone.
NY backfired though, didn’t it, Slow?
Hello, you assume I support cap and trade and the 2000 page health care reform package. Haven’t you heard the old adage about what happens when you assume? Don’t also assume that when I put up a thread I have strong feelings about it. I might just be trying to stimulate conversation. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t.
I do believe there needs to be health care reform to keep the horrible cost of the 40 million uninsured from driving up our premiums even further. I do think there needs to be some sort of way to insure pre existing conditions and to keep some of the abuses from happening. However, I haven’t seen the 2000 page document and if I do see it, I won’t read it. I have no clue what they plan. ‘Nuff said?
I hope the McDonnell will keep Virginia as #1. We all profit if that happens.
Another big reminder…don’t assume who all I voted for. I confessed to Deeds and the rest is a mystery.
NY23 half-backfired. If a liberal is going to be a representative, then it should be a Democrat, not a Republican that’s a Democrat in disguise. Kind of a “throw the bums out night”, no matter what party is in charge.
Slow, let’s talk about why you feel DeeDee is a liberal. Surely being pro choice and favoring what was it, gay marriage doesn’t alone make someone a liberal.
I hope the policy about the rest stops is reversed too. What a dumb way to try and save some money – there must be other places that money can be found.
I also thought City of Manassas usually went Republican. It seemed to most of the time I lived there.