Early Voting

[Crankin]

I haven't been following this thread, but I have had it with the ads. Massachusetts is not a battleground state, as we are predictably the most liberal state in the US, but NH is a battleground state, and they only have one of their own TV stations, so we get all the ads. We get the ads for the national race, the Massachusetts and NH state races, and now this year, we've had a lot more because of the insane senate race between Elizabeth Warren and Scott Brown. That race is even closer than the presidential one, if you can believe it. I am sick of seeing Scott Brown's wife telling me that he supports women's issues. It's just crazy. And of course, Romney was our governor, even if he would like to deny it. His campaign is headquartered here, so there's a certain amount of hoopla around that.
I know who I am voting for and I have tried to ignore it all. I don't even answer my phone around dinner time or if I am home during the day. I gave money to a political cause and now I am getting incessant emails.
I've always been obsessed by the news, politics, and history, but this is turning me off. Everything is so mean and personal. And all the political signs on people's lawns are driving me nuts, too. It looks so ugly and I swear some people are putting them on their lawns, not so much to promote the candidate, but rather to proclaim their "values."
Ugh.

[Catrin]

...I've always been obsessed by the news, politics, and history, but this is turning me off. Everything is so mean and personal. And all the political signs on people's lawns are driving me nuts, too. It looks so ugly and I swear some people are putting them on their lawns, not so much to promote the candidate, but rather to proclaim their "values."
Ugh.

I agree. I voted yesterday and have long been disgusted by many of the ads. Personally I think they should take all of the money from the ads for the next 5 days and use it for storm relief from the B*tch that just hit the east coast. That would be a far better use of those dollars!

[Crankin]

I wish we could vote early.
We still use paper ballots, where we mark our choices with an X .

[Catrin]

I wish we could vote early.
We still use paper ballots, where we mark our choices with an X .

For early voting - this is how we do it. They don't use the machines until actual election day, at least not in my county.

[Kerry1976]

I voted last week. I work at a state university and they set up a couple of voting booths in our student union, so I walked over and voted during a lunch hour. I love that they did this for this election and hope that enough other people take advantage of the service that it will be offered on campus in the future.

[zoom-zoom]

I must say that Google Voice has been our friend in recent weeks. I get a real kick out of reading those transcripts, as they are reduced to utter nonsense by the Google Voice computers.

[Blueberry]

I must say that Google Voice has been our friend in recent weeks. I get a real kick out of reading those transcripts, as they are reduced to utter nonsense by the Google Voice computers.

You mean there are messages it doesn't reduce to utter nonsense? It seems to particularly have fun with my Grandmother's voice. Those have been downright comical at times. I've been rather extensively using the blacklist feature on my cell phone. It's starting to cut down on some of the calls.

I think we're going to vote on Friday. Early voting ends Sat, and the lines are always long the last day. We might wait and vote on election day, but it's a stressful day for me (lots of professors decided the best way to celebrate democracy was to make students take exams).