2012-11-06, 15:41 | Link #2201 |
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: 42° 10' N (Latitude) 87° 33' W (Longitude)
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I voted.
And I feel damn lucky to watch Joe Biden's motorcade drive by on the expressway (as it was blocked to clear a pathway for the motorcade). In addition, watch this:
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2012-11-06, 16:07 | Link #2205 |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Republic of California
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Sort of like one of our Propositions here. (Prop 34) It says "Death Penalty. Initiative Statute" However it is to Repeal the death penality and replace it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole, including retroactively changing currently sentanced criminals for the death penalty to Life. (tagged onto it are funding of $100 million for local law enforment into investigates of homicide and rape cases.)
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2012-11-06, 16:11 | Link #2206 | |
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I'm from MN so we have same problem, as my illustration below, where 75% of the population is condensed in the twin cities/metro area. We have 87 counties and basically only 4 of them matter. Practically the rest of the counties don't matter at all vote wise. I would like to see each county get an electoral count. Then depending on who wins that wins the state. Have both State and Country be electorally decided. Just look at this Illinois map The vote ended up being like 48%-46% so roughly 50% and was total difference 100,000 votes, so close race. But seriously look at the spread of the votes. The blue won 3, ONLY 3 counties. I don't know who won, don't even know who these guys are or what they running for (guessing govorner) didn't read this too carefully. But seriously it looks like the state would want Kirk to be their (governer?) There is 102 counties and Giannoulias only won 3 of them. |
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2012-11-06, 16:12 | Link #2207 |
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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Heh... our state's initiative process has a judicial committee whose sole purpose is to rewrite misleading propositions and get rid of double negatives, etc. It can also deny "omnibus" initiatives (that should be split up, like e.g. "legalize weed, stop abortion" would get zapped).
It doesn't stop stupidity from reaching the ballot, but it does make it pretty clear when its a stupid initiative. @Simonsy - its a mistake to look at a map and go by "Square mileage" - the results are by population density. Try to see if you can find a map that redefines a county's graphic size by population density. They have them for the U.S. but not sure about individual states. http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/
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2012-11-06, 16:17 | Link #2209 |
Bittersweet Distractor
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 32
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So on california proposition 37 to label GMO's.
Does this actually incur any significant bureaucracy costs? It's the only thing making me hesitant on this about, otherwise I'm all for transparency on our food labels.
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2012-11-06, 16:19 | Link #2211 | |
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Location: R'lyeh
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Opponent said Additional $400 annually on the grocery bill of a family of 4.
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2012-11-06, 16:21 | Link #2212 | |
Gamilas Falls
Join Date: Feb 2008
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I try to figure, "why bother". On a real level, nearly all our food has been genetical engineered, just over time via selective breeding. (Chicken with larger breasts...plants with either higher yield, or specific colors...those have been done for generations since the they started breeding roses, or domesticated animals for specific traits.
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2012-11-06, 16:21 | Link #2213 | |
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So damn stupid how easily controlled by media we are as a nation.
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2012-11-06, 16:22 | Link #2214 | |
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Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
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Seriously, the opposition to putting basic information on food so the *free market* can work is just whining. Heck, I'd like to see cattle tracked from farm to table individually as well (cue more whining, sorry my family runs cattle and they think its insane not to track cattle)
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2012-11-06, 16:25 | Link #2216 |
It's bacon!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Up and to the Left
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It took me around ten minutes to get through the voting, but at least the lines were short this time around during the morning start. No "I Voted" sticker this time, since they probably ran out due to the fairly good turnout. The only thing that I felt uncomfortable with again, was how the paper ballot scanner machine looked and functioned remarkably similar to a Fellowes Powershred. (No joke. It actually looks similar to one of those. )
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2012-11-06, 16:31 | Link #2217 | |
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Location: East Cupcake
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That being said, New Hampshire is almost definitely going Blue (so 4 more votes for Obama), which would make Flying's map a dead heat (269 to 269). Sadly, that is unlikely (especially since quite a few of the states on the map that are red are more likely to be blue). |
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2012-11-06, 16:31 | Link #2218 |
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Join Date: Nov 2010
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Maine uses the "Congressional District Method", selecting one elector within each congressional district by popular vote and selecting the remaining two electors by the statewide popular vote. Basically, it's to show that at least one congressional district will go to the Republicans. For your information, Maine has four electoral votes.
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The last nagging issue bout this is that they exempted meat and diary from the labels, but I suppose some labels are better than no labels.
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2012-11-06, 16:34 | Link #2220 | |
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Mayers wouldn't work cause a big city has one, and 10 small cities that same size combined equal that big city have 10 total. But just tossing in an idea. I just feel its dumb to have one be population and another electoral. Be the same in both. Whether its population or electoral. Someone mentions Gore/Bush. Don't forget Kerry/Bush. Bush beat Kerry by like 3,000,000 votes population. Very wide margin. Yet Kerry was only like 50,000 votes away in one state from winning. At least its not as stupid as the College Football Bowls selection process. |
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