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Are you voting?
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Do you normally vote? If not, what made you decide to start?
I’m voting. I always vote on the big elections; not so much on the local stuff.
I’m in a very republican district; I’m hoping things will turn around this year.
No. I voted a week or two ago.
It’s pouring down rain today, and I live in the most Republican county in a red state. I guess I might as well be the only Democrat to vote in this town today. I just hope they don’t come after me with pitchforks.
I already voted; I usually do so in the national elections, not so much the local elections.
All I can say is: 70+ year old volunteers should not be expected to give instructions on touch-screen voting. It was ugly. I opted for the opti-scan ballot.
(1): I just came from voting. Took over an hour due to relatively long and slow lines. Encouraging note in this overwhelmingly Republican district: Women outnumbered men by 3 to 1 while I was there.
(2): I’ve rarely missed a vote, and have never missed an election in which I had been able to find sufficient information to vote wisely. I sorely miss California’s neutral analysis info routinely provided to every registered voter.
What, me vote? 
I’ll be heading over to the polls in a couple of hours. I haven’t ever missed a national election since I became eligible to vote.
I don’t have such a good record with state and local elections. I joined the Navy when I was 20 and for the next 11 or 12 years I lived outside of my home state. During those years, I always voted in national elections (via absentee ballot), but skipped the state and local only elections since I dind’t know what was going on (this was before the internet) back home and I wasn’t eligible to vote in the state and local districts where I actually lived.
Finally, in '93, my husband was stationed in California (my home state) and we lived there for 8 years. I voted in every state or national election while we lived there. I may have missed a few of the tiny local elctions – California seems to have a lot of those – but I tried to vote every time I got the chance. When Kevin was ready to retire from the military, we returned to Virginia, but this time, knowing we were going to settle here, we took state residency. I’ve voted in every election, national, state or local, since we’ve lived here.
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I early voted, a week ago.
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I missed the 2002 mid-terms. Except for that, I vote in everything, even the off-year springtime municipal elections.
Sure I’m voting, it’s pretty important to me. I actually considered polling locations when I purchased my home, I’m across the street from mine.
Of course; because I always do. Even years always; every other set of odd years (when the Philly mayoral/city council elections are held). Primaries I’m spottier on – depends on whether it will make a difference or not.
One more question: Are you in a “house divided?” We were much further apart in '04 than we are now. I like a guy who can admit he made a mistake. 
[QUOTE=ambushed(2): I’ve rarely missed a vote, and have never missed an election in which I had been able to find sufficient information to vote wisely. I sorely miss California’s neutral analysis info routinely provided to every registered voter.[/QUOTE]
Damn – they don’t do that anymore? Or do you mean you no longer live in California?
California had the best system of providing information to voters. I can remember being a kid and watching my parents prepare to vote. They would each read the package (which came in the mail and, as ambushed said, offered in-depth neutral analysis of every issue. They also had party-provided information available, since Mom was a registered Republican and Dad a registered Democrat. They did this on purpose so they could get literature from both parties. They’d read everything and then sit down together to mark their sample ballots – Califiornia ballots are usually long – and they’d debate each other on areas of disagreement, using the literature to bolster their case. Sometimes one would be able to sway the other, other times they’d be unable to agree and joke that, on that issue, they’d be cancelling each other out. But they always voted and they always took the research to vote seriously.
I’m very dissatisfied with the turn out. I stopped to vote while taking my son to school at 7AM. The place was freakin’ deserted (except for the 70 year old explaining the new touch-screen vote machines).
PS- I Hate those touch screen things; bring back the mechanical monstrocities with the huge lever in the middle of the machine and the Marlboro-Light dispenser in the side. I mean, whats the fun in pushing a button? But, with the pull of a large mechanical lever registering your vote, you can always yell, “LIFE! DO YOU HEAR ME? GIVE MY CREATION… LIFE! Muah-ha-ha-ha…!” and do a hunch-back run back to your car.
I am voting today.
The choice for governor in Michigan is like choosing between Taking Arsenic or Taking Strycchine.
I think this may be the first year I bite the bullet and vote the same way as Mr. Ujest. Might as well be a united front as the toilet swirls downwards.
Fcuked either way.
No. I’m currently not eligible to vote anywhere. I live in the US, but I’m not a US citizen. I’m an Australian citizen, but I’ve lived outside Australia so long that I’ve lost my eligibility to vcote there. The last time I voted was just over 7 years ago, in the 6th November, 1999, referendum on whether Australian should be a republic: I voted at the Australian embassy in Washington, DC.
It depends. Texas has no competitive races. My state rep and US Rep are both in gerrymandered Democrat districts. I’ve been working a lot of hours the past few days, so it will depend on my fatigue level and the traffic on the way home.
If there was any race in doubt, I’d make the effort.
I stood in the pouring rain for an hour 4 years ago in Ohio.
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I voted this morning before I came in to work. City Hall is right across the street from my office. I was in and out in about 10 minutes. This is a sparsely populated area.
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I haven’t missed a major election since I turned 18. I also usually vote in the primary and any other special election that might come up. Since I do work right across the street from my polling place, I really have no excuse not to.
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We used to be a house divided but less so in this election and the last. Actually, neither one of us votes a straight party line.
The ‘house divided’ thing – this year we are. Kevin is a lot more conservative than I am and he is voting for George Allen because he doesn’t want the Senate to switch majority. He doesn’t actually like the guy (maybe even likes Webb better), so his vote is just for that reason – so the Senate won’t switch parties.
I’m voting for Webb, though, as are my mom and dad (who now also in Virginia).
Kevin and I often cancel each other out on candidates although we usually agree on issues.
My mom and dad seem to be the same way.
Oh, yes. Mr. Stuff and I will do our annual November outing. He comes home from work around lunchtime, we drive in to town and vote, and then go out to lunch. Wheeee! It’s a small town, and we don’t get out much.
Seriously, though, we both think it’s important to vote, and do so consistently.
Nope, because the state has yet to see the wisdom in allowing cats to vote.
Actually, this one of the few years my entire family (who can vote in the same district, I mean) probably voted the same way on everything.
And I’m not voting today because I got my absentee ballot in the mail a couple weeks ago.