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  • muppetmuppet
    edited November 2012
    I haven't seen a single Romney = police state post on FB and most of my CT friends are liberal. It stands to reason, though, since George Bush II practically invented the American police state with his Republican congress during his two terms.

    Not that Obama has fixed it.
    Why would Republicans get rid of something that kills Dems before they are born ?
    Classy.
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  • 2bfree2bfree
    Lever machines are the best. If I lived in a house with a big empty basement I would install a DDR machine and a decommissioned lever voting machine. Pretty sure they are still used in Beacon where I voted with one as recently as 2008. My parents might also still use them in Trumbull, CT.
    New Jersey had the lever machines until they had to change after the Florida fiasco. Something tells me those things could have worked another 100 years.

    We have electronic machines, but not the touchscreen ones. It's more like light-up buttons with a paper grid over it.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    Yup, posts like: 'If Romney wins I will lose my civil rights for at least the next four years.'

    Obama will behave as all Presidents have. Once their power is expanded it is never given back.
  • SquadronROESquadronROE
    If Romney wins I will lose my civil rights because

    Yeah, I hate it too. It's dumb on both sides of the vast insurmountable gulf of fire.
  • muppetmuppet
    Yup, posts like: 'If Romney wins I will lose my civil rights for at least the next four years.'

    Obama will behave as all Presidents have. Once their power is expanded it is never given back.
    Well, he did undo accounting loopholes that would have benefited him politically re: the national debt, but otherwise, you're right.
  • ErwinErwin
    My sister just voted after her surgery yesterday. I am proud :P
  • open_sketchbookopen_sketchbook
    I have not voted because I hate democracy.
  • Jack DraigoJack Draigo
    I have not voted because I hate democracy.
    Commie.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    I have not voted because I hate democracy.
    If I vote multiple times does that mean I love democracy ?
  • Jack DraigoJack Draigo
    I have not voted because I hate democracy.
    If I vote multiple times does that mean I love democracy ?
    No but you may be a democrat.
  • Admiral HotcakesAdmiral Hotcakes
    Voted absentee! I feel bad for some of my NY friends, Sandy fucked with the timing of their ballots.
  • Drunken ButlerDrunken Butler
    I have not voted because I hate democracy.
    Commie.
    That's an unfair conclusion to jump to. What if he's a monarchist?

  • SquadronROESquadronROE
    I'm gonna vote straight Whig.
  • Dragonmaster LouDragonmaster Lou
    Yup, posts like: 'If Romney wins I will lose my civil rights for at least the next four years.'

    Obama will behave as all Presidents have. Once their power is expanded it is never given back.
    Ahem, Vietnam calling. After the Vietnam War, there was a severe curtailing of Presidential power, including passage of the War Powers Act. Watergate also contributed to the curtailing of Presidential power. In recent years, Presidential power has been growing, that is true, but there's no reason to assume it won't retreat again. These things tend to be cyclical if you actually follow history. For example, Lincoln greatly expanded Presidential power during the Civil War and it was then scaled back again after the corruption disaster that was the Grant administration.

  • Jack DraigoJack Draigo
    I have not voted because I hate democracy.
    Commie.
    That's an unfair conclusion to jump to. What if he's a monarchist?

    He's still a commie.
  • muppetmuppet
    I have not voted because I hate democracy.
    If I vote multiple times does that mean I love democracy ?
    No but you may be a democrat.
    Funny how the only arrest this year so far for an attempt to vote twice was a Republican woman.
  • RochelleRochelle
    How bout you two just stop right there and not create another stupid flame war?
  • Dragonmaster LouDragonmaster Lou
    How bout you two just stop right there and not create another stupid flame war?
    Amen!
  • MATATATMATATAT
    I think the people who complain about Obama secretly wish he would win so they can still complain about him.
  • muppetmuppet
    No I think that a great many of them ACTUALLY believe that he is actively ruining the country every day that he's sitting in the President chair.
  • SquadronROESquadronROE
    Man, I wish they would institute poll fees or IQ tests or something.
  • muppetmuppet
    Man, I wish they would institute poll fees or IQ tests or something.
    CAW!! CAW!!
  • SquadronROESquadronROE
    Man, I wish they would institute poll fees or IQ tests or something.
    CAW!! CAW!!
    I don't get your reference.

  • Dragonmaster LouDragonmaster Lou
    Man, I wish they would institute poll fees or IQ tests or something.
    CAW!! CAW!!
    I don't get your reference.

    Jim Crow.
  • RymRym
    Man, I wish they would institute poll fees or IQ tests or something.
    CAW!! CAW!!
    I don't get your reference.

    Really?

    ...

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws
  • muppetmuppet
    I assume he's kidding. :0)
  • DevilUknowDevilUknow
    edited November 2012
    Jim Crow?

    edit: ninja'd hard.
    Post edited by DevilUknow on
  • SquadronROESquadronROE
    Ohhhhhhh, I get it. It was just terrible, so my mind was actively rebelling against getting the joke.
  • RochelleRochelle
    I personally thought of Wilderness Explorers.

  • VigaViga
    Bake sale at voting place. A dangerous combination. Vote cake 2012.
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