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Discuss the US Presidential Election
We made it. It's election day. Tomorrow we'll know. So for today's election discussion story, I'm throwing it wide open: let's discuss the election itself. Who are your picks and why. And also what about your actual experience voting today? Did Diebold eat your vote or did everything go off without flaw?
Since this topic is essentially an open invitation to a giant flamewar, might as well go all the way.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
>> especially against sarah palin... below-the-belt attacks were at an all time high
Yeah, Obama really licked her below the belt.
You shouldn't. Neither Obama nor McCain will be a decent president, as has been discussed to death on /. many times. Obama is just a corrupt, self-serving politician like the rest of 'em. The only way we'll have a half-decent president in January is if a miracle happens, and a third party gets elected... course, that won't happen, but a man can dream.
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
That way they can audit the voting machine.
Say the machine had counted 100 votes, but the poll worker had sent only 95 people into the machine. Obviously there is something wrong with the machine.
(On the other hand, if the poll worker had sent 105 people into the machine, it could just mean that 5 people abstained from that particular election.)
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Were McCain 'right wing' you might be correct but he is not nearly as far out to the right as people make him out to be, he had to do allot of convincing to get the base on board with him.
I see allot of Militia members buying guns if Obama wins, January 21 might be the last time you can exercise your second amendment rights..
"Ahh! Arrogance and stupidity in the same package, how efficient of you!" --Londo Molari
In what way does knowning which machine you voted on constitute a violation of your vote's privacy? There are many people voting on the same machine.
As others have said, it's probably for auditing reasons and in case the machine breaks down.
The AACS key is NOT 0xF606EEFD628B1CA427BEA93A9CA9773F
For some reason the U.S. has the most expensive and the least efficient health care system of all developed nations.
Citation required.
So it's better to have a lower life expectancy, a higher child mortality rate and a bigger fiscal burden, and be ideologically pure than just implementing something that has been proven to actually work?
I think the overwhelming idea is that given the way our government runs *anything*, it's impossible to imagine how they would provide health care for all citizens in any efficient manor. They can't even pave the roads properly and so I don't possibly see how they would manage health care either. And for what it's worth, it's not like you can't walk into any hospital in the united states and get treated with no money. You might not be able to get a physical but any type of emergency will not go untreated in this country. Even managed illnesses are covered.
That's, of course, discounting all the other valid theories about what socialized medicine would do to the fabric of our nation. Increased taxes, less incentive for doctors to be doctors, less medical innovation, etc. etc. etc.
You'll have that sometimes...
Give me a freakin' break. "speaking their mind"? She 'spoke her mind', and there was nothing on it. It's just gibberish. There are signing apes that can communicate more coherently. It's the same deal as Bush: her language isn't awkward because she has trouble finding the right words to express her thoughts, it's because her thoughts themselves are poorly formed.
As for not speaking the party line, that's bullshit too. The only time she sounds coherent is when she's repeating pre-programmed phrases handed to her by Republican Party speechwriters. That's why she performs so well in speeches and in the highly structured format of the VP debate, but completely screws up in interviews.
The Republican party gave her a remarkable opportunity to show her stuff on a national stage. Not only did she blow it, she helped take McCain and her party down with her.
Yeah, people get pissed if you feed them the truth when they're addicted to lies.
"What landmarks did Liddy bomb?"
Right you are. As best I recall..... he just napalmed our Constitution and tried to nuke our electoral process. Nothing important.
I'm assuming you are saying that since his terrorism was state sponsored it was different? Right you are....
Oh! So he's like ACORN.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
And disaster recovery is, and must be, a primarily FEDERAL function.
Could New Orleans have done everything needed to make sure New Orleans was prepared for a hurricane like Katrina? Sure. But that's a stupid way to handle disasters - it doesn't make sense to have New Orleans, Louisiana, Houston, Texas, Miami, Florida, Alabama, Missippi, Georgia, North and South Carolina, all each individually acquire the resources to handle a hurricane when you can have the Federal government do it ONCE and then just move those resources to wherever the hurricane lands.
There is really no way around it - the federal government must be responsible for a large part of major disaster recovery, and with Katrina, the federal government majorly screwed it up, in large part due to the complete incompetence of the Bush administration.
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