Not posting my entire ballet, just the races that matter. (in Georgia)
Govenor: Jason Carter (D)
Senate: Michelle Nunn (D)
and voting No on all the state wide ballet initiatives (which included setting a cap on income taxes).
My congress person doesn’t have anyone running against them according to my sample ballet. (gerrymandering is successful).
Honestly, this is one of the first ballets I’m casting where I’m actually voting for a democrat. When I first started voting, in most cases I voted a straight Republican ballot, the last couple ballots I voted libertarian. We have been bombarded with political ads in this election, and between the general and the primary, the republicans haven’t given me a single reason to vote for them. Their entire campaign has been “vote for me, since Nunn will vote with OBAMA!!!”… But sorry, Obama will be in office for a maximum of 2 more years, a senator is in for 6 years. What will “you” do? You’ll have 2/3 or your term without Obama in office, next election, republican or democrat, what will YOU do? The republican never answered that question, the democrat did.
My wife normally votes pretty much a straight republican ticket, she is fed up too, but can’t bring herself to vote for a democrat, so I’ve convinced her to vote a libertarian ticket. Vote 3rd party, shows you’re fed up with either choice!
The only newsworthy race I’ll get to vote on is governor and I’ll be voting for Charlie Crist in about an hour. I’m quite annoyed that in a year where I’m really rooting for Republicans, the best I can do is vote for an ex-Republican. My Congressional district is solid D, so that one doesn’t even matter.
I hereby nominate Qin Shi as the most qualified new voter in the US. Welcome to the electorate.
My Michigan Ballot:
Governor- Mark Schauer (D)
Sec of State- Godfrey Dillard (D)
Atty Gen- Mark Totten (D)
Senator- Gary Peters (D)
US Rep- Eric Schertzing (D)
State Sen- Curtis Hertel (D)
State Rep- Sam Singh (D)
State Board of Education- Cassandra Ulbrich (D), Pamela Smith (D)
U-M Regents- Mike Behm (D), Kathy White (D)
MSU Trustees- Faylene Owen (D), George Perles (D)
WSU Governors- Marilyn Kelly (D), Dana Thompson (D)
County Commissioner Deb Nolan (D)
Supreme Court- Full Term Richard Bernstein, Bill Murphy
Supreme Court- Partial Term Deborah Thomas
Court of Appeals- Michael Kelly, Amy Krause, Patrick Meter
Circuit Court- Rosemarie Aquilina, William Collette, Janelle Lawless
Probate Court- Richard Garcia
District Court- Thomas Boyd
School Board- Dean Bolton, Samer Naser, Robert Tucker
State Proposal 1- Wolf Hunting NO
State Proposal 2- Wolf Hunting NO
County Proposal Millage for trails and parks YES
County Proposal Millage for health services YES
I voted this morning: for all Democrats on the statewide ballot (governor, secretary of state, attorney general, auditor, treasurer, and for both Ohio Supreme Court seats up this year). Voted for the Democrats running for County Council, the State House and Senate, and for most of the Democrats running for judge - but not all, when the GOP had a better candidate. Lot of unopposed judges this year (most of whom, I know, are Democrats).
Was surprised to see several proposed amendments to the county charter - voted for all of them except one, which seemed punitive against the county executive (who’s sort of like the “governor of the county”).
Also voted on a city initiative that would require the police to have an officer assigned to every red light and speeding camera - kind of a back-door way to ban those cameras, since the police could never afford that kind of personnel commitment. Although I have some concerns that the cameras are more about revenue than safety, and about the objection and appeal process for mistaken tickets, overall I think they’re for the best, so I voted against the initiative.
US Senator: Al Franken
US Representative, District 5: Keith Ellison
Governor/Lt. Governor: Mark Dayton/Tina Smith
State Representative: District 46A: Ryan Winkler
Secretary of State: Steve Simon
State Auditor: Rebecca Otto
Attorney General: Lori Swanson
Hennepin County Commissioner: Linda Higgins
Hennepin County Sheriff: Eddie Frizell
Hennepin County Attorney: Michael Freeman
borrowed from Silophant’s post and modified.
I voted straight DFL and where they were nonpartisan, I voted for the one with a DFL endorsement. Ideologically, the GOP and I just do not get along.
I didn’t vote for a single human being. That’s right. Straight R’lyeh ticket. Why vote for the lesser evil?
IIRC this year is projected to be the lowest Indiana general election turn out ever. I voted straight donkey, for how much it matters.
For a little fun, here’s doomed Republican challenger Catherine Ping’s website. Say what you want about her politics, or her being an army vet, but that looks like a '90s Geocities page. “Solider.” Dat png. And is it just me, or does it read kinda Palin-esque? Something about the disjointed sentence structure combined with the corny aspirational patriotism.
For the first time, I’m not voting in an electoral swing state. The question isn’t whether Candidate A or Candidate B will emerge victorious, but rather, whether Candidate B will lose by a huge margin or by a slightly-less-huge margin.
I only had one Democrat candidate on my whole ballot, for Congress I think. I voted for him.
State Auditor had no Democrats running. I don’t remember seeing that before. I voted for the Libertarian because he wasn’t GOP or Constitution Party.
I skipped the long list of unchallenged bozos.
There were several ballot issues. I voted no on one and abstained from the rest, but I probably should have voted no on all of them just because they’re, you know, pointless propositions.
I didn’t check beforehand if there were any write-in candidates. I just looked on the Mo. Secretary of State’s website and I don’t see any information about any.
In Georgia, I’m voting mostly all Democratic, but with two major exceptions:
US Senate: Amanda Swafford (L)
Both Michelle Nunn (D) and David Perdue ® have been so negative that I cannot in good conscious vote for either of them (not that I know what their positions are either other than generic D and generic R).
Superintendent of Schools: Richard Woods ®
I’m strongly in favor of charter schools and so am voting against the person who spoke out against them.
I’m voting No on all the ballot questions as well.
Only 3 races on the PA ballot this year. Tom Wolf for Governor, Houghton for Congress (a lost cause…this is deep red country) and Sturla for State Rep. No Senators on the ballot in PA this year.
Straight D voter here in Colorado, for all the good it will do this year. So glad I only watch TV on DVR, so I’ve missed nearly all the awful ads on both sides.
Voted no on the personhood amendment that Cory Gardner, IMHO disingenuously, now says he does not support. Also voted no on the GMO labeling and casino amendments. I think subjecting judges to voter approval is about the worst idea ever concocted, so I voted to retain them all. Also, why in hell are sheriffs and coroners elected positions? They should be qualified career civil servants.
My wife and I voted largely the same on every candidate and every measure. My college sophomore daughter voted for the first time by absentee ballot from school, and also voted largely the same as we did (she did all her own research, but we taught her right ).
Already voted (by mail-in ballot) the straight Democratic ticket in California.
One exception: the Democratic state assemblyman for my area. I know the guy (or more to the point, had business dealings with him). He’s a schnook. I think I left that one blank.
I voted for the Lutheran Muslim, the Hon. Keith Ellison, because I could. Also, I am totally in favor of Obama imposing martial sharia law and sprinkling Ebola virus in school lunches.
I passed on voting for a number of offices - I just didn’t care to find out about them. Here’s what I remember voting for:
Governor:Edmund G. “Jerry” Brown
Lt. Governor: Non-incumbant
Secretary of State: Non-incumbant
Controller: Non-incumbant
Treasurer: Non-incumbant
Attorney General: Not Harris - I hate her.
Insurance Commissioner: Non-incumbant
Superintendent of Public Education: Tuck
Proposition 1 (Bonds for water-related spending): No
Proposition 2 (Increases general revenue going to “Rainy Day Fund”): Yes
Proposition 45 (Requires Insurance Commissioner’s approval and public notification before health insurance rates rise): Yes
Proposition 46 (Adjusts medical malpractice suit cap for inflation, requires drug testing of doctors): No
Proposition 47 (Makes certain minor drug and theft offences misdemeanours rather than felonies): Yes
Proposition 48 (Ratifies gaming compacts with Indian tribes): No
As a side note, I consider it a negative that every statewide office in CA is held by a Democrat.
Like most SDMB members, I voted straight Democrat. Although I was once registered Republican, I cannot in good conscience vote for any GOP candidate again until the party culture changes dramatically, especially with regard to the prevailing anti-science attitude, bigotry towards LGBTQ, and despicable kowtowing to religious nut-jobs.
Sadly, my district “features” a number of partisan positions where “GOP Party”* candidates run unopposed. I vote for no one in those cases.
Among the state ballot measures, I voted for eliminating the background check loopholes when purchasing firearms. That’s the main one of interest nationally.
*Yes, the “GOP Party” label is a thing. Apparently “GOP Party” in my state has supposedly fewer negative connotations, or something, according to the state GOP, than does “Republican.” I can’t explain or elucidate that reasoning.
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