Everyone here Votes, right? Any NON-voters in the crowd?

[omega minimo]

A lot of interesting topics, this close to the election, including one suggesting the polls claiming Democrats lead in the polls may be misleading.

Could a perceived lead in the polls cause some Democratic voters to not bother to vote?

Given the past bogus election record and the life/death nature of what's at stake, EVERY Democrat needs to cast their ballot.

Are you going to vote? Are you even considering NOT voting?

[Tess49]

1. I always vote. I'll be there.

[unpossibles]

2. I always vote

it is my duty as an American. As I just stated in another thread, I think the claim that Dems don't/won't actually vote on election day is a cover for their cons and fraud. The line at my polling place in 2004 (Columbus, OH) was unheard of, and the people working it agreed. When it turned out that a lot of voters "didn't show up" was when I first suspected fraud and when I first discovered DU looking for info. Frankly, it scares me how easily they pulled it off (with the help of the MSM of course) and I won't let it happen again.

[babylonsister]

3. I do think the majority of us know how very important this is, so

you won't find many if any who don't plan on voting.

[BOSSHOG]

4. My first vote was as an 18 year old

Voted absentee ballot from Boot Camp in San Diego in 1972. I haven't missed a vote since. I will be one of the first to vote on November 7th as I was the first to vote in the last two elections at my voting precinct. I will stop voting when they pry the lever off of my cold dead, liberal hands.

I last voted for a republican in 1976, Gerald Ford, whom I considered a very honorable man.

[Glorfindel]

7. I was 18, too, Boss, but it was 1964 & I voted for LBJ

I've never voted for a Repuke, but if I could retract some votes they would be all those I cast for the late Zell Miller* - for whom I voted every time he ran for Lieutenant Gov. & Gov. of Georgia. I don't know what drove the man insane, but I wish it hadn't happened. Now that I'm a resident of Mississippi, I don't have any regrets (so far).

*He's dead to me; that's why I say the "late" Zell Miller.:evilgrin:

[BOSSHOG]

9. Did you see Sunday's Sun-Herald?

the chucklehead running against Gene Taylor had an ad which stated (in so many words) since no one disputed my last ad it must all be true. His first ad blathered on about the evil liberals in Taylor's party and rambled and rambled and rambled.

So if a "conservative" makes a fool of himself in print and everyone ignores him, he's right? Gotta love their love of ignorance.

[Hippo_Tron]

13. Fortunately even Mississippi isn't dumb enough to fall for that

I wouldn't use the name Gene Taylor and the word "liberal" within five miles of each other. He's still far better than any Repuke that runs against him, though, because he is very critical of Bushco.

[BOSSHOG]

14. Yeah, My Congressman Gene Taylor

is a flaming liberal. He leads the Gay Pride Parade each year in Kiln. He was a big hero after Katrina. I guess that state gop doesn't care which neanderthal in the district runs against him.

[Deep13]

5. Voted every election since 1988.

Actually, I missed a city council election the autumn I moved to Ohio, but that's it. Got called for jury duty once, but was dismissed because I work for the D.A. My wife became a citizen in 1995 so she could vote for Bill Clinton in 1996. She can't understand how anyone can fail to vote.

[SpreadItAround]

6. I would never not vote

[neoblues]

8. Oh, and even if you're afraid your vote will be defrauded...

be sure to vote anyway--even if the vote is being stolen in your district, hopefully the more Democrats that can be shown to have voted will (a) make it that much more difficult to accomplish, and/or (b) make it that much more apparent and/or help ensure recounts occure when appropriate and possible.

Almost as important as the vote itself, though, it seems to me, will be being prepared to demand--in numbers that cannot be ignored via public demonstrations and activism--that recounts and investigations and whatever is needed is done, immediately, whenever, wherever there are signs that something suspicious has occurred (such as outcomes that seem statistically unlikely or whatever). That is, we just can't roll over or bear it modestly if and when we appear to have been defrauded. Seems like we ought to be organized nationally as a whole and prepared in advance to respond...

[omega minimo]

12. Seconded. Well put!

:applause:

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. While I don't always vote in every race, I do always vote

I routinely abstain from "races" with only one candidate, for example, and I have abstained in rare races or on certain initiatives, but I take my duties as a citizen in a democracy very seriously, and I always turn out to the polls.

[Fleshdancer]

11. This should be a poll

I vote. I also harrass any friends/family members who don't vote until they get annoyed enough to vote. :D

BTW, if you decide to make a poll, make an option for DUers who can't vote too (non-US citizens, too young, etc)

[DireStrike]

15. Some of my votes will go to greens

But not in races that really "matter", or are close. Ideological purity is tough to reward in our current system.