Did you vote today?

[MightbeaBuck]

...To put it simply, I have no desire to vote because I really don't think it matters...I hope that answers your question.

Let me restate it, but leave out the qualifier (which you answered magnificently!) and just show the question: "how come you'll vote here?

After all, you could say that this poll is a micron of pus on a little pimple on the ass of an entire body of human existence...that keeps us convinced of our own importance. That by casting a vote in BuckeyeMike's poll there's a 95% chance it was a complete waste of time, a 4.9999% chance you break even, and a 0.0001% chance you'll feel good about the expenditure of time/money/effort.

 

[OhioState49]

I am so happy this campaign crap is over now!

 

[Maurice Clarett]

Chapel Hill, NC has one-stop early voting at UNC's planeterium. I voted last week.

 

[osugrad21]

Yup, now I am off next friday which means I can leave for Ohio on thursday.

:)

 

[OSUsushichic]

Voted absentee, since I'm in Longhorn country this week. God, I'm so sick of orange! :p

I was hoping to see Kinky Friedman giving his acceptance speech tonight, but oh well!

 

[Thump]

The elections will come and go, the sun will come up tomorrow, and I'll quickly forget how annoying the constant campaign ads were. To put it simply, I have no desire to vote because I really don't think it matters. I'm not trying to be purposefully argumentative, but would my casting a vote actually help eliminate terrorism? Or loosen the cuffs on stem cell research? Or make health care more accessible to those who truly need it? The changes that really matter don't happen over the course of a single election. If I were a more transcendental person, I'd simply say that this election is a micron of pus on a little pimple on the ass of an entire body of human existence, and it will clear up in no time; that it is, like many other things people do on a daily basis are, just one in a line of many distractions and follies that keep us convinced of our own importance. Casting a vote in a major election to me is like investing a dollar in a scratch-off ticket. There's a 95% chance it was a complete waste of time, a 4.9999% chance I break even, and a 0.0001% chance I feel good about the expenditure of time/money/effort. Call me a bum, call me a malcontent, but I'm fairly certain that I could live my entire life, not vote one single time, and be able to say at the end of it all that I'm satisfied with the outcome.

I hope that answers your question.

For as intelligent and clever and you usually seem to be, you sure are ignorant.

 

[timBUCK2]

For as intelligent and clever and you usually seem to be, you sure are ignorant.

Especially when it comes to the state/local voting. You're talking about voting on things like increasing minimum wage, smoking bans, legalized gambling, etc.

There's always at least one issue that's extremely close. Why not represent yourself...

 

[Thump]

Especially when it comes to the state/local voting. You're talking about voting on things like increasing minimum wage, smoking bans, legalized gambling, etc.

There's always at least one issue that's extremely close. Why not represent yourself...

The 2000 election came down to one county in Florida where it only would have taken a couple thousand people with vrbryant's attitude and we could have had Al Gore as president and maybe not gone to Iraq.

Your vote matters.

There was a school levy in Madison county I believe 2 or 4 years ago where the measure passed by one vote.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

For as intelligent and clever and you usually seem to be, you sure are ignorant.

No offense but people who get all wrapped up in politics seem more ignorant. My idiot co-worker is a democrat who won't shut up about how bad all those terrible terrible republicans are. My dad is a republican who won't shut up about how bad all those terrible terrible democrats are. 90% of the shit they bitch about has nothing to do with their actual jobs, they're just so blinded by the republican/democrat label that it makes me disgusted with the whole election process.

I'm not putting you in any of those categories, I'm just trying to say that vr isn't any more ignorant than your average voter.

 

[Thump]

No offense but people who get all wrapped up in politics seem more ignorant. My idiot co-worker is a democrat who won't shut up about how bad all those terrible terrible republicans are. My dad is a republican who won't shut up about how bad all those terrible terrible democrats are. 90% of the shit they bitch about has nothing to do with their actual jobs, they're just so blinded by the republican/democrat label that it makes me disgusted with the whole election process.

I'm not putting you in any of those categories, I'm just trying to say that vr isn't any more ignorant than your average voter.

I'm not wrapped up in it but find it my duty as a citizen of this country to help make decisions for the country.

Spoken like a true non-voter.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

I'm not wrapped up in it but find it my duty as a citizen of this country to help make decisions for the country.

Spoken like a true non-voter.

You see, I have no ill will towards voters.....why do voters have ill will towards people who don't vote? I don't care about politics, so who should I vote for?

People who get mad at non-voters are really just getting mad because you didn't vote for their guy.

 

[Thump]

You see, I have no ill will towards voters.....why do voters have ill will towards people who don't vote? I don't care about politics, so who should I vote for?

People who get mad at non-voters are really just getting mad because you didn't vote for their guy.

I could give two shits if you voted for my guy, just think people should be active.

Voting is one of the most basic freedoms one can enjoy.

Too many people in this country take it for granted.

Are you too lazy to vote or just don't care about the direction about your community or country?

You used to work in a school I believe, don't you think a school would appreciate your vote for a levy?

 

[scooter1369]

You see, I have no ill will towards voters.....why do voters have ill will towards people who don't vote? I don't care about politics, so who should I vote for?

People who get mad at non-voters are really just getting mad because you didn't vote for their guy.

Doesn't this relate back to Oh8ch's "social contract" he brought up in the Issue 5 thread?

That somehow as citizens, we have a responsibility that every action we make should be for the greater good. People shouldn't smoke, not because it will kill them, but because it adversely effects productivity, is supposedly responisble for the increase in medical costs (we all know that is actually just greed) and other don't like it.

So in other words, my smoking effects you negatively financially, therefore I shouldn't smoke.

Your not voting, effects me policitally (and likely financially), therefore you should vote.

 

[BuckeyeNation27]

Yes that's the only 2 reasons a person could have for not voting....they're either lazy or they don't care about their community or country.

No, I never worked for a school....unless you count coaching.

 

[Buck36]

People who do not vote are the worst whiners in our society. A non-voter will say they don't care but they are the first to complain about their situation.

If you are not will to take a stand, then do not complain about the decision of those that did. I respect those that oppose me because they at least care about the direction of our local and national politics. Whiners who didn't care at election time and who complain regardless of who wins deserve no respect or voice.