Marine1: whidbey: Marine1: qorkfiend: Marine1: No more NDAA crap, legalize weed (I don't even smoke it). Two easy things right there that could sway my vote. But, nope.

Are you somehow under the impression that Mitt Romney would do either of those things?

Hell no. That's why I didn't vote for him.

You are voting for him.

Okay, I've been told that by voting for Johnson, I was voting for Obama. This was by my conservative family. Now I come on here and you guys are telling me I voted for Romney.

Which one is it?

C'mon, tell me. I'm waiting.

The fact of the matter is that one individual vote is extraordinarily unlikely to decide an outcome. That does not mean the vote is thrown away.

People died to give us the right to vote for whomever we choose. That is something I don't care to throw away. 

/ goes off to vote

BgJonson79: Why are there no viable third-party candidates? Wouldn't they be more viable if people didn't think they were "wasting their vote" for them?

just me personally, but i'd find them more viable for my vote if they wouldn't just keep putting up republicans to vote for. you aren't a 3rd party when you just take 1 parties leftovers - you're the farm team.

hey, at least they didn't have rosanne barr in the mix - there's always that.

qorkfiend: I assume they're talking about polling places where people are being forced to present ID despite the injunction against it.

The true "genius" behind these Voter ID laws is making poll workers the final arbiters of who does and doesn't get to vote.

Technically not - but you have to be willing to wait for a few hours while an election attorney gets on site. So they've made it so inconvenient that unless you show up first thing in the AM, it's unlikely you'll get to flex those muscles.

Ed_Severson: I'll vote for Gary Johnson. Both of the major party candidates can go suck a dick.

I find it VERY telling how many "the two party system sucks" shills ALWAYS list a Republican also-ran as their "third party" alternative.

Rocky Anderson? Jill Stein? Nope. Almost ALWAYS "Gary Johnson, the SAFE third party candidate".

You are just so predictable.

STILL COMING

Why does my vote count less than the Florida bath salts zombie?? USA USA USA

star_topology: The All-Powerful Atheismo: [i567.photobucket.com image 813x597]

you libtards are gonna be sooooo pissed off

That's awesome. But what is that -100? Buttfarkistan?

Or is it Kenya? lol

Kenya, the 57th state.

Dear Third Party President Voters,

Replacing the shingles of the roof of a dilapidated and crumbling building every 4-8 years will not suddenly keep the weak foundation from sinking into the mud...

If that analogy doesn't help you see your faults, then look at it this way:

If you think the Republican outcry and childish partisanship tactics of the likes of Boehner and McConnell are bad because a Democrat is in the house, imagine what would happen if NEITHER party won... We would see a monumental 4 years in which both parties come together in a bi-partisan effort to completely render a third party president useless...

You think it's bad when a president is lame duck when one party is the majority and against you, try and imagine what would happen when BOTH parties are working together to stop your president in his tracks.

They have worked very hard to ensure a 2 party system is in their best interest... but it's not impossible to introduce a good third party option, but you have to build that party with a solid foundation... you must elect local, and state government officials, when the third party can show, on a state level, that they are there, and a real threat to the big 2, then you start filling the seats in the house, and fill the seats in the senate... make sure the numbers are even, you can't have 1 or 2 Libertarians, you need 33% to show them they are failing....

whidbey: BgJonson79: You're joining the rednecks and the racists and the other frankly dregs of society who are voting against progressive policies. Why on earth would you want to be counted amongst them, if you don't share their beliefs?

Doesn't that assume "progressive" policies are always the right ones?

They're the best ideas we have, and they're good ones.

Attempting to move forward 4 years, and then scrambling back 4 years to the kind of political mindset that tanked the economy is NOT a good move. Romney wants to go there again.

Which specific ideas are you referring to, good sir/madam?

Tor_Eckman: Marine1: Hey man, I don't consider "No, you can't just label people terrorists and detain them indefinitely" an "empty gesture". Quite a few people don't. But hey, again, if you're willing to throw due process under the bus for political expediency, go ahead.

Are you really this dense, or are you just deliberately missing the point?

How's that dense? I don't want the President to authorize that. I don't want Congress to do so either, but at least the President could get his two cents in. Instead, nope, we let some dicks in Congress piss all over rights.

MaliFinn: [i208.photobucket.com image 800x164]

Okay......... I have no idea.

Jragghen: Can't seem to find this anywhere - what was the judge's ruling on the software patch in ohio?

Ruled for allowing it, according to a very long and detailed post on Reddit from one of the computer experts testifying.

w00t! I threw my vote for Obama into the big tub of ignorance that is the state of Kansas. It was quickly surrounded by the less sophisticated votes until it succumbed. Hopefully my vote for state reps gets a little more traction.

It was weird having to show ID now.

/that is all

He_Hate_Me: [i67.photobucket.com image 600x515]

In before his site mysteriously goes down, *right-click* + *save image as*

Here is the current "unskewed" projection.



/Only a couple more hours until we can all point and laugh
//Legitimately.

No matter who you are voting for today sleep easy tonight knowing that we are screwed no matter what the outcome of this election is.

You all know nothing of any value about the election going to be out until 7pm EST?

Get back to work!!

Cletus C.: kindms: the only important thing being decided today is in Washington State and Colorado.

How are things looking there folks ?

Fire up the bong, my friend.

God I hope you're right. If they make it legal that'll be the straw that breaks prohibition's back.

I voted last week but I am really ready for this to all be over.

In "swing state" Wi

+1 Obama/Biden

CeroX: Dear Third Party President Voters,

Replacing the shingles of the roof of a dilapidated and crumbling building every 4-8 years will not suddenly keep the weak foundation from sinking into the mud...

If that analogy doesn't help you see your faults, then look at it this way:

If you think the Republican outcry and childish partisanship tactics of the likes of Boehner and McConnell are bad because a Democrat is in the house, imagine what would happen if NEITHER party won... We would see a monumental 4 years in which both parties come together in a bi-partisan effort to completely render a third party president useless...

You think it's bad when a president is lame duck when one party is the majority and against you, try and imagine what would happen when BOTH parties are working together to stop your president in his tracks.

They have worked very hard to ensure a 2 party system is in their best interest... but it's not impossible to introduce a good third party option, but you have to build that party with a solid foundation... you must elect local, and state government officials, when the third party can show, on a state level, that they are there, and a real threat to the big 2, then you start filling the seats in the house, and fill the seats in the senate... make sure the numbers are even, you can't have 1 or 2 Libertarians, you need 33% to show them they are failing....

So vote Republican?

The Dreaded Rear Admiral: Free skink's daughter!

She's free? I'LL TAKE HER!!

Barnstormer: My presidential voting record:

1984: Mondale
1988: Dukakis
1992: Clinton
1996: Clinton
2000: Nader
2004: Kerry
2008: Obama
2012: ??? (still have until 8 pm to decide)

(whatever happens, I'm having my steak rare)
Not only did you actually vote for Dukakis but you remembered how to spell his name? You, sir, are a freak.

Keep your politicking, trolling, and flaming in here, but if you want to get drunk with fellow Farkers while following the election, make sure you also step into the Official Election Night Fark Party thread, complete with Official Election Night Drinking Game!

Im_Gumby: Here is the current "unskewed" projection.


Are you a wizard? 

mediablitz: Jragghen: Can't seem to find this anywhere - what was the judge's ruling on the software patch in ohio?

Ruled for allowing it, according to a very long and detailed post on Reddit from one of the computer experts testifying.

Got a link?

forever_blowing_bubbles: The Dreaded Rear Admiral: Free skink's daughter!

She's free? I'LL TAKE HER!!

Yeah but having sex with a lizard isn't fun

Aww jeez, not this crap again.

coyo: Marine1: whidbey: Marine1: qorkfiend: Marine1: No more NDAA crap, legalize weed (I don't even smoke it). Two easy things right there that could sway my vote. But, nope.

Are you somehow under the impression that Mitt Romney would do either of those things?

Hell no. That's why I didn't vote for him.

You are voting for him.

Okay, I've been told that by voting for Johnson, I was voting for Obama. This was by my conservative family. Now I come on here and you guys are telling me I voted for Romney.

Which one is it?

C'mon, tell me. I'm waiting.



The fact of the matter is that one individual vote is extraordinarily unlikely to decide an outcome. That does not mean the vote is thrown away.

People died to give us the right to vote for whomever we choose. That is something I don't care to throw away. 

/ goes off to vote

So... I vote for one of two guys I don't like. I get stuck with them for four years of them doing shiat I don't like.

That's not throwing my vote away... how?

Don't give me the "Hurr, lots of people died so you can vote" line when you tell me I have to vote for either Romney or Obama. That's the line the communist parties fed their populaces. My grandfather buried his buddies sans proper funeral on Omaha beach after the landing. I refuse to believe that the men who died there fought for a "democracy" where people get two (ultimately similar) choices.

mrshowrules: Scarlett Johanssen or Eva Longoria?

Scar Jo

I need some help. I am told on good authority that Obama's re-election will usher in 1,000 years of darkness. When does that start, exactly? Is it based on CNN declaring a victor, the official tally, or inaugeration?

/trying to schedule my vacation

bulldg4life: Oh, duh, it's Tom Ridge.

"democrat party"

whatta maroon

I've had a couple babies since this whole thing started, so I'm not sure if I'm imagining things or what.. but prior to 2007 or so, didn't they always call it the "Democratic" party? And now I even hear intelligent journalists (I live in Minnesota and our public radio is top-notch) saying "Democrat" party? Because... WTF?

Grand_Moff_Joseph: Badge from the original thread:


"Come for the herp, stay for the derp. Don't forget to clench."

Cletus C.: They have worked very hard to ensure a 2 party system is in their best interest... but it's not impossible to introduce a good third party option, but you have to build that party with a solid foundation... you must elect local, and state government officials, when the third party can show, on a state level, that they are there, and a real threat to the big 2, then you start filling the seats in the house, and fill the seats in the senate... make sure the numbers are even, you can't have 1 or 2 Libertarians, you need 33% to show them they are failing....

So vote Republican?

no vote libertarian to split the republican vote in the future.

sigdiamond2000: ...
Today, may the streets - of PA plus IA, WI, MI, MN, NH, & OH run Red in Republican votes for Romney/Ryan!

that...that is some grade-A crazy.

whidbey: Marine1:

Yes, "progressive" policies. Like being able to label people as "security threats" and detain them indefinitely. Getting felt-up by a high-school dropout at the airport before I can get on the plane is another "progressive" policy as well. Maybe we can have third-party candidates arrested for protesting being excluded from debates as well. You know. For "progress".

I'm not even going to debate any of that.

I just want to know where your army is. A few million people saying they're going to vote for Gary Johnson isn't going to cut it.

No shiat. Maybe if guys like you stopped saying "HURR, YER THROWIN' AWAY YER VOTE THERE, CLEETUS" whenever we actually speak our minds on a ballot, we wouldn't have to choose between two mediocre candidates every four years.

whidbey: BgJonson79: whidbey: BgJonson79: You're joining the rednecks and the racists and the other frankly dregs of society who are voting against progressive policies. Why on earth would you want to be counted amongst them, if you don't share their beliefs?

Doesn't that assume "progressive" policies are always the right ones?

They're the best ideas we have, and they're good ones.

Attempting to move forward 4 years, and then scrambling back 4 years to the kind of political mindset that tanked the economy is NOT a good move. Romney wants to go there again.

Which specific ideas are you referring to, good sir/madam?

I believe we should be taxing the upper bracket at a high rate while cutting taxes for the middle class, I believe in keeping the corporate taxes we have now, I believe in having a social safety net for people in need, I believe we need to address climate change and develop green energy.

It's nothing new, and frankly, not radical ideas. We should already be on board with all of that. This isn't the 1950s. I'm a guy, too. You can tell by the neckbeard.

Fair enough. And, I don't click on people's profiles when I speak with them. Gender neutral always works best for me ;-)

Corvus: You all know nothing of any value about the election going to be out until 7pm EST?

Get back to work!!

I'll be turkey hunting until 7:30 Mountain time. Should come back to find some on air pundits desperately trying to tell us why we should keep watching, after Obama wins Virginia, Pennslyvania and Ohio (expect the Florida win to take a couple days to come in).

I voted for Romney five times this morning. I was going to write him in for County Treasurer, but then thought better of it. However, there were five people running unopposed for Regional Vocational High School Committee, so wrote ol' Willard in five times.

Hope he loses.