Hypothetical election

[Timbuk3]

Lincoln Chaffee, the Republican, voted against the war in Iraq and against Samuel Alito.

Tom Carper, the Democrat, voted for the war in Iraq and for invoking cloture on the Samuel Alito vote, although he later covered his cowardly, spineless backside by voting against him.

By a strange twist of circumstances the two men are now running against each other. Not only that, but whoever wins this election will determine which party controls the Senate.

The vote is EXACTLY tied. It's one minute until the polls close, and you're standing in front of a voting machine with the opportunity to cast the deciding vote.

Will you leave without voting?

Will you vote for the DINO, giving control of the Senate to the Democrats?

Will you vote for the RINO, giving control of the Senate to the Republicans?

Who will you vote for, and why?

[southpaw]

1. Take the Senate

It seems that, at least for now, we are stuck with a few DINOs...

seizing the majority is the most important element of the coming election.

[LSK]

2. Get the Senate

This is a no brainer. You had the primaries to vote out Dinos. NOW IS NOT THE TIME.

[Timbuk3]

3. That's EXACTLY what I think N/T

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. The Only Right Answer Is Voting For The Dem.

To even ask the question in such a biased way is pathetic in my opinion.

We're supposed to be boosting up Democrats here and focusing on their positives, not tearing them the fuck down for their negatives while boosting republicans, ESPECIALLY when we're two fucking weeks away from a monumentally important election.

I'm becoming more and more perplexed as to why some people keep having such an enormously skewed focus of agenda then what it should be right now, which is doing everything in our power to win in two weeks.

[Timbuk3]

6. I'm in DE

Carper is my Senator.

I'm going to vote for him, even though he's PATHETIC.

Because I agree with the poster who says "We need to take out the trash in the PRIMARIES. The general election is no time to reject an entire party based on the lack of principles of ONE candidate."

I'd like people to confront this question, and honestly ask themselves it their own position is so immobile that they'd vote AGAINST a Democratic majority, or worse yet, not vote.

Don't forget, some heavily Democratic precincts are going to be facing long lines, and people who can ill-afford to take a day off from work might NOT if they think "we're going to win, anyway."

Low turnout will kill us. Berzerk crazies VOTE. Every time.

[damntexdem]

5. I left without voting.

Diebold might have flipped my vote anyway. ;-) But I do have a problem with voting for a supporter of the war.

Nevermind, I've already early voted a straight Democratic ticket here in Texas. It won't happen, but I fantacize about Barbara Ann Radnofski's knocking out Hutchinson from the Senate. Then, we Texas Dem's could be singing "Ba ba ba, ba Barbra Ann"!