elections...whats your issue?

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I'd like to get Bush out before: a supreme court justice retires, he invades another country on a pretext, he lets Dick Cheyney's friends stripmine the rest of west virginia and explore my arse for oil, he defines marriage to exclude people I like, or I have to hear him say 'nucyalar' again.  IMO this is the worst president we've had in my lifetime so that's my election issue.

Usually I vote based on who seems less stupid, but then I guess that works here too.

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I don't know about 92 but we all know how it's being done now.  The most amazing thing about all of this to me is that we managed to talk England into going along for the ride as well.  They already tried to run Iraq in the 1920's and had similar problems then.  I suppose countries don't have very good memories.

Trimom -  Dive right in!  We'll behave ourselves (mostly).

Well on the national level I wish my vote counted. Mass is highly Democratic and any other vote dosen't count. I can not express how much I dispise the electoral colledge. I tend to lean hard to the liberal side, but would love a viable third party canidate. At this point I wish McCain had gone Indipendent. He would "steal" votes from both sides.

On Bush, loved him after 9/11, BUT he has a mean trigger happy side that is a little over the top for me. Since when was the US appointed the judge, jurry and executioner. I thought that was the idea of the UN. At this point I think I would vote for Rodney King "can't we all just get along". For the record Kerry has yet to get a vote of mine.

Joe

As for this being a liberal thread, that's only because noone has stepped up to the conservative plate yet.  Don't worry, it's not a bar fight.

I hear you about the electoral college.  The problem is that it's winner take all.  So here in PA we're dominated by Philadelphia and the state goes democratic often in state or national elections but if you look at our legislature the vast majority of districts are replublican.  I heard a proposal that I liked once: change the electoral college system for Pres. elections so that delegates were awarded by congressional district rather than by state.  Then you would have pols competing for more local votes, and the republicans of massachussets (sp?) could have some of their votes count.  That seemed like a good idea to me.

Third parties - I like some ideas of the libertarians (maximum personal freedom), greens (environmental stuff), republicans (personal responsibility, frugality),  the democrats (tolerance, liberal social philosophy), and socialists (public resources should be run for the public's benefit).  If I could find a [arty that combined these things I would vote it in a flash.  Instead, the third choices I get are folks like Nader (who's so anti business even I'm turned off) or Perot (my company has a ceo, the nation doesn't need one).  No politician really represents what I believe in.