Vote? Oh, is that today?? I've barely had coffee at this point, much less voted. My husband was going on his way to work today, and my daughter and I are going when she gets out of work this afternoon.

The local school district was supposed to be closed today, but they are open because the kids missed so many days already. And they moved our polling place from the high school to the middle school.

I don't usually go in for celebrity endorsements, but a friend of mine from Ohio told me that Leon from "Curb Your Enthusiasm" made a major endorsement this morning. And you have to respect Leon's opinion.

Hahahaha that made my day

Gotta love Leon!

He's the President of hitting that ass. What's not to love?

The funny thing about that is the episode aired in 2007, long before Obama was even the nominee in '08. "I hit it and then I quit it."

Speaking of Leon, why there was no Curb Your Enthusiasm this summer? It was a bummer.

I know that PA is like some states in that felons are free to vote if released from prison. Misdemeanor offenders in prison, as well as those detained waiting trial on felonies, may vote by absentee ballot. Those released to halfway houses are free to vote by absentee too. New York, I believe, and a few others require that the felon finish his parole time in addition to incarceration.

A dozen or so states, including ronnie's TN, place permanent (or near permanent) restrictions on felons.

As far as I know the only states that allow imprisoned felons to vote are Maine and Vermont.

There are probably about 5 million Americans disenfranchised due to their convictions and/or incarceration. If the difference between the candidates is 2 points, which is about 2 1/2 million votes, just think of the impact they could have had, but for their crimes.

I hear that Chrysler gave all employees the day off so they can vote. Cool I could never understand, with all our Federal Holidays, why we couldn't every 4 years, have the Presidential election off.



TIS

I didn't vote yet. The lines were a little too long for my wife and me on our ways to to work, so we're going to meet home in the early afternoon and go together.

My older son is registered in another part of PA where he's going to school. He said a lot of his classmates from NJ and NY registered in PA to vote because they, as Lou pointed out, felt their vote wouldn't matter as much there this year.

TIS and afs, I saw the surveys in other countries showed that Obama was heavily favored across the globe. The three countries in Europe where he was most favored are Ireland, the Netherlands, Iceland and France. While he is still favored throughout the nations in Africa, he lost 21 points in Kenya from a survey from a year ago.

Romney was favored in Pakistan, Israel and China. But in all of these polls there was a large pct. of people, who picked neither. Pakistan was 14%-4%.

Larry David has been on an every other year rotation for the show for the past few seasons. Probably more importantly, Larry has "F-you money." Meaning he has so much that he can do whatever he wants when he wants.

I just spoke by phone with my 98 year old grandmother (born 6 years before women had the right to vote), who had voted about an hour ago. She's never missed an election and has voted in the same polling place since 1935. She warned us that she was not putting up with the Voter ID thing in PA, and while the Commonwealth Court delayed implementation of the law, poll workers are still asking for it though you're not required to have the ID to vote.

Well, they asked her, and got more than an earful from her according to my parents. She used to babysit the poll worker, who is now in his 70s.

This is not right. You should tax his ass back to work. That's why this low tax rates on the rich must come to an end.

No, Romney has fuck you money. Larry has fuck everybody money .

PA voting machine refuses to cast ballots for the President.



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Come what may it is really going to be interesting around 10:30 PM to watch either MSNBC or Fox. Because at least one set of journalists and analysts will need to be placed on suicide watch.

As much as I bitch about people watching either brain-dead, ideology pornographic channel, I must admit it was fun watching Sean Hannity has his own little meltdown 4 years ago, only because he's such a useless well-paid hack. I won't get to see that happen again if the Kenyan wins (vacation).

WTF?! This is bad.

I think the MSNBC folks are more likely to kill themselves. At the end of the day, the FOX people really don't care about anyone enough to do themselves harm.

I remember after the first debate, somebody told me the MSNBC people desperately needed paper bags and Chris Matthews almost looked like he was having a heart attack.

(But that sounds like normal Matthews to me.)

Didn't Tip O'Neill teach Matthews to drink to avoid looking nervous in public?

It's a sensitive subject but you would think that a producer would tell Matthews about his spittle issue. Cause it's getting worse.

See my post above.

Well drink too much and you can drunk as a skunk like Andrew Johnson apparently was at Lincoln's inaguration. (A month later, that rambling drunk would be President.)

slightly related...

FOX and MSNBC are the worst political channels. I watch both every now and then (CNN more). The main issue I have is that there's no other more moderate conservative voice out there. Bill O' Reilly I can handle, but Sean Hannity is snide little prick. Although I do enjoy CNN.

Note: The Exit polls (not worth spit in my view) come out at exactly 5PM EST. If any get posted beforehand online, they're more than likely pretty bogus.

Usually that is part of the Union (UAW) contract. All of the US car companies abide by that as far as I know. Election day is a paid holiday.

O'Reilly is a dick too, but he's harmless like that local old fart who writes that weekly newspaper columnist and whines about kids cursing too much and this rap crap music. (His curse out caught on tape and can be seen on YouTube is good comedy.)

Hannity is alot like a Sloth. You wonder what their purpose is other than eat, shit, and waste space.

Note: In Ohio, the (Republican) Secretary of State has ordered NOT to count any ballots with registration not properly filled out by both voter and precinct staff. So yeah your vote can be toilet paper if some sloppy fucker doesn't do their job correctly.

(I almost predict somebody countering with "Well the voter should be responsible enough to overlook that paperwork and make sure they do their job!")