# VOTE OBAMA-your reply is your vote

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 25, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480 "2008-10-25T05:13:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
**Page:** 11

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**Author:** ![Elysian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c77e96/32.png) [@Elysian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elysian)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/201 "2008-10-27T13:10:00Z")

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Voted weeks ago, absentee ballot for Indiana 🙂 w00t

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**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/202 "2008-10-27T13:17:20Z")

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> [@History\_Geek](#):
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> Only 11 days to go 'til my official vote!

Go vote early. All of you slackers that haven’t voted yet, do it today.

Yeah, consider my post as a vote.

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**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/203 "2008-10-27T13:23:42Z")

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My second vote for Obama (first was at the early voting booth).

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**Author:** ![BlueOhio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BlueOhio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueOhio)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/204 "2008-10-27T13:38:04Z")

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I will be voting for Obama.

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**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/205 "2008-10-27T13:56:22Z")

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Voted a week ago. Gobama!

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/206 "2008-10-27T14:15:00Z")

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Voting for a constitutional lawyer in the WH to undo the untold damage Bush-Cheney has done to the Constitution.

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**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/207 "2008-10-27T14:27:04Z")

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I sent in my vote via overseas mail ballot (Registered in LA County, Calif.) from Tokyo two weeks ago.

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**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/208 "2008-10-27T14:31:56Z")

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Resigned to accepting that I will vote Democrat for the first time in my life.

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/209 "2008-10-27T16:23:38Z")

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I’ve voted via absentee ballot.

Yeah Obama!

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**Author:** ![pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b9e5f3/32.png) [@pretend\_my\_name\_is\_witty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pretend_my_name_is_witty)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/210 "2008-10-27T17:11:24Z")

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Not really eligible to vote, but if I (or most other ‘foreigners’, I’m sure) had a say in the election most able to impact the rest of the world, Obama would be my choice.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/211 "2008-10-27T17:27:34Z")

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I used my [God Given Right to Vote Early](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=489413) to vote for Obama. There wasn’t a bit of hesitation as I voted for a (D) presidential candidate the first time in my life.

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**Author:** ![bink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@bink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bink)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/212 "2008-10-27T17:31:24Z")

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Aloha mama, I’m voting for Obama.

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**Author:** ![Parthol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Parthol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parthol)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/213 "2008-10-27T17:36:24Z")

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I’ll take one Obama please, with a side o’ Biden.

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**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/214 "2008-10-27T18:10:13Z")

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> [@tesseract](#):
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> woohoo!!
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> (This is NOT why I’m voting for Obama. BUT: (barring the completely unforeseen in this election,) I love that my mixed-race child, born on September 24, 2008, will grow up thinking it is natural, normal and even old news to have a mixed-race president.)

A little late, but congrats on the new little homo-sapien!

I’m voting for terrorism in the hopes the terrorists will spare me when the invasion and culling comes.

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**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/215 "2008-10-27T18:12:23Z")

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I can’t wait to vote!

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**Author:** ![mlerose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@mlerose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlerose)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/216 "2008-10-27T19:14:50Z")

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Going out to do early voting in about 20 minutes. I spent yesterday listening to Obama speak along with 100K of my closest friends here in Denver.

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**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/217 "2008-10-27T19:17:37Z")

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I’m a votin’

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**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/218 "2008-10-27T19:19:30Z")

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217 (including mine) for Obama versus 56 for McCain.

Woot!

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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/219 "2008-10-27T19:47:19Z")

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Yo.

–Cliffy

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**Author:** ![Atomicflea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/58956e/32.png) [@Atomicflea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomicflea)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vote-obama-your-reply-is-your-vote/469480/220 "2008-10-27T19:55:52Z")

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Knockin’ on doors this weekend in IN, voting for Obama.

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