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    Re: Get Out And Vote!!

    Quote Originally Posted by love_that_reefer View Post
    Why would it be sad that our president won 15% of 300 million people's vote? Didn't the best person still win?
    Because the presidential election process is less chaotic if 49% of 300 million people lament that the winner "is not my president" than if 85% of 300 million people were to say the same thing.

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    Less chaotic? How is it chaotic now? Oh you mean the complete hatred that has built between the right and left? Yeah, we can;t do without that

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    I would just like to say, this election is a shitshow. Obama won Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Mexico
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    Re: Get Out And Vote!!

    They're announcing Obama the winner right now on both Fox and CNN
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    Re: Get Out And Vote!!

    Quote Originally Posted by HollywoodLeo View Post
    I think you guys actually make valid points in regards to not voting for the President once it gets down to two candidates that you could very well equally not like.

    BUT....it's not as though the Presidential election is the only thing on the ballot, you know.
    Im still trying to figure out how this state can re-elect a person that completely bungled the Sonics situation, taxed the living hell out of us, and has the economy in shambles. We must want to continue suffering.
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    Re: Get Out And Vote!!

    Quote Originally Posted by HollywoodLeo View Post

    A couple of the most important things I just got done voting for was in favor of a state lottery for Arkansas and against a proposal that would ban unmarried couples from adopting children.
    The lottery passed!

    But the ban on unmarried couples being able to adopt children also passed.
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    Re: Get Out And Vote!!

    Voters cast their ballots in numbers not seen in at least 40 years, as millions of Americans picked their president early and waited in lines that stretched the lengths of blocks and buildings.

    It looks like about 133.3 million people voted for president, based on preliminary results from the country's precincts tallied and projections for absentee ballots, said Michael McDonald of George Mason University. Using his methods, that would give 2008 a 62.5 percent turnout rate, he said.

    Both numbers are estimates and may change as officials count more absentee and provisional ballots.

    McDonald suggested the turnout to be about equal to or better than 1964, but not higher than 1960 when John F. Kennedy squeaked out a victory over Richard Nixon. The turnout rate then was 63.8 percent.

    The total voting in 2008 easily outdistanced 2004's 122.3 million, which had been the highest grand total of voters before.
    A great day in America's history!!

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