Shot a man in Sacramento just to watch him die

[cyrano]

If I hear one more person explain how they're not going to vote because they don't like either candidate, I'm going to fuck them up real good.
(A) There are five candidates for the California gubernatorial race. And do you know why people say the other three 'don't have a chance'? It's because people like you would rather hold your noses and vote for somebody you hate than to vote for somebody you support.
(B) Do you have any idea how many other items are on the ballot? Here's a hint: the numbers on my ballot this evening went to over 200.
Okay. I feel a little better now.
Soon perhaps I'll post a 'things that suck and things that fail to suck' essay, but for now I'll just say that I don't know if I can make it to Seattle this weekend. Between yesterday morning and this morning they sold 30 seats on my flight.
PS: Mark will be shocked (shocked, I say!) to hear that I voted mostly Democrat, Libertarian and Green.

Comments

[l2g.livejournal.com]

Mark may be shocked, but I'm not. :-)

[miss-friday.livejournal.com]

Remember, politics is local. There weren't 200 things on my ballot, it only seemed that way.

More on politics and vitriol in my own journal

[esmerel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, ours was 4 pages, but most of it was judicial candidates.

And me, I voted for someone I supported. I mean, I love that Gray Davis signed the 4 pro-choice bills. But man, some of the rest of his crap.. eee.

And Simon's not any better. He's just got crap in other ways

I didn't vote for either of them :)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I voted Green for Governor. (In MA.) Rah me.

I also wrote in someone for US Rep, because the current rep is a putz. Oh, and he voted for the Iraq thing. And I voted Libertarian against Senator John Kerry, because he's already running for president even as we speak, plus he voted for the Iraq thing. So I'm all independent, durnit.

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

I too voted Green for Governor here in CA, but abstained on the Senate and House races, as I didn't especially care for any of my options. I got really annoyed with one of the local news channels doing the preliminary results last night. Instead of showing actual vote percentages, they disregarded all the third party stuff and were showing only the Rep and Dem candidates and totalling the votes to 100% between them. Another channel showed that the Green Governor candidate was getting like 5% of the vote, and that's not insignificant for a third party, even if it does make them a distant third place.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Ew. That's horrible reporting. Ew.

[mallen.livejournal.com]

Heh.

I guess some people's sarcasm detectors are broken.

[mallen.livejournal.com]

P.S. I walk the line, I walk the line.

There's been a bunch of Johnny Cash coverage on NPR lately. Happy.