TAH Election Day Thread
There are many things I love about fall, especially in New England–the color of the leaves turning before being buried under six feet of snow that I have to shovel out, the cheering of the Patriots fans beating Seyton Manning like a bald-headed stepchild before losing to self-same Seyton in the playoffs, and the smell of the brined turkey about to send me into a coma, just after I finished my share of the kid’s Halloween candy haul.
One thing I WON’T miss is the plethora of ads that have inundated the airwaves since about Labor Day, if not before.
Okay, we get it. Your opponent sucks. Probably performs ritual sacrifices on small animals, too. Got it.
In NH, Scott Brown is taking on Jeanne Shaheen in what is pretty much a neck-and-neck race. Like TSO, I’m not wild about the guy’s politics, being a bit mushy, but any guy that wears a Ranger Up shirt automatically gets my vote. Period.
In Massachusetts, one of the Congressional Districts has Iraq vet Seth Moulton going up against Richard Tiesi. Tiesi is a social liberal, openly gay, and married. Moulton has FOUR tours of Iraq under his belt. Oh, and for the record, Moulton is the Democrat who rejected support from pro-LGBT groups. Dafuq? Moulton does have one group throwing him lots of cash and paying for lots of airtime–VoteVets.
As you can see, they’re up to their usual, supporting veterans, including folks like the aforementioned Scott Brown, Joni Ernst, and Tom Cotton. Oh wait, they’re not on VoteVets’ list? Silly me, those folks are Republicans! So much for that idea.
Anyway, along with a few tidbits, I’m also including links to our favorite folks of late, to see how they fare in their quest for elected office. If you find a better link, please send it to me or Jonn and I’ll update it.
Good luck to all the candidates highlighted here. May you receive many warm handshakes and bowls of soup.
Category: Politics
To summarize, Dickey, Gilbertson and Cushman went up in flames. I hear that Acton won. Good luck with that, AZ. But we’re at 75% this year. I’d have preferred that they’d drop out so that qualified people would have an opportunity to run, but, oh, well, we’ll take it.
Did that dimwit who thougth Guam would tip over – Johnson?? – get fired?
IL ex-Gov. Quinnhas conceded but is too much in schlock to believe he lost his job.
But that’s probably true of several – make that many – many other pols who found the polls at the polling places did not move in their favor.
I sincerely hope that the GOPers do not waste this opportunity given to them.
I just want you all to know that this change was predicted, by someone whose accuracy rate is 97%. From his 10-26-2014 weekly newsletter:
‘Finally, the following week will witness the USA mid-term elections (November 4). Will the Democrats retain control of the Senate? Or will the Republicans gain control over both sectors of Congress? Mercury retrograde has coincided with gains in the polls for more Republicans than Democrats. But that momentum could begin to reverse with Mercury changing directions and three planets (Sun, Venus, Mars) changing signs right now, October 23-26. Will there be enough time to alter the polls between now and then? Not likely, unless there is some other dramatic revelation unveiled. You never know when Uranus is sitting at the head of the table, or in control of the levers.
Just like the financial markets, people are in a time of flux. They want change, and they themselves are changing their positions. If the cosmos says anything right now, change is coming. It is going to be a wild and exciting time for the next five months. And then all the experimentation of the last seven years ends. A semblance of normalcy begins to return. Common sense with a longer-term approach towards solving problems becomes vogue once again. People start working on creative solutions rather than courting destructive divisions. Polarization starts to give way to unification. It may take a while to sink in, but a new era is coming as the cosmic pattern of the 7-year Cardinal Climax begins to recede.’
Like I said, the GOPers have a huge opportunity given to them. They should make the most of it.
Oh, yeah – in an on-air commentary, one poltiical analyst said that bodaprez was in complete denial about all of this. He doesn’t believe it could possibly have happened. I found it also interesting that someone else pointed out that wherever Hellary appeared to help boost some democrap’s campaign, the democrap candidate lost. I have to find that reference.
For those interested in such things and may not have found this link yet:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/almanac/114th-congress-new-members
Looks like 12 new veterans coming into the new Congress in January. (You can sort in other fun ways as well, of course.)
The Power of Your Vote
While doodling in a class decades ago, I started thinking about the power of one vote. It’s amazing and more powerful today than when I first pondered it. First, take the total US population. Then, back out the number of people 18 or older. Then, subtract from that the number who are actually registered to vote. Next, reduce that number by the number of people who go to the polls and cast a ballot. You’re nearly there. Finally, take the number of people whose candidate (where there were two or more candidates) or ballot issue won. By the time you are done, whether the matter was national, state, or local, you find that your solitary vote was HUGE.
So much truth to this.
I was reading a couple of articles about the deliberate skewing of polls leading up to the elections. How people did not go vote for their candidate because the polls over the last few weeks showed their candidates so far behind that they (the voters) figured it wouldn’t matter if they voted or not.
If you’re an adult in this country, and legally allowed to vote, register and vote. Every vote makes a difference.
IMHO we need to make it easier for military and contractors to vote while deployed or working in combat zones. I did not vote in several elections due to the challenging logistics of getting a mail-in ballot and mailing it back once completed. If I had overcome the challenging logistics, my confidence of the ballot actually arriving and getting counted was low. The military might have a better process in place than the non-existant process I had to deal with… I am not sure. In any event, being from Texas, I knew that my fellow Texans would paint the state red in my absence. They did.