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AH! The thread I’ve been looking for.
We got the results over the radio today. Yay yay yay yay!!!
Democrats won!! That was pretty obvious though.
well they dont know anything for sure yet do they? it sounds good for democrats though. YIPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i think democrats won, judging by the current polls
I really want to know if Arizona’s voter-lottery bill passed. Have you guys heard of that? My state has a proposed bill that creates a lottery which gives a million bucks to a random voter. Wacked or what?
The Democrats won? Yahroo!
That’s just weird, Skip. And a waste of money. So many more things could be done with a million bucks than make some random voter filthy rich.
Alot of democrats won. YAY!!!!
The stupid commercials are gone!
Yay!
Steel likes puppies… give me a break
DEMOCRATS!!!!!!!!!!
we have the house and the senate!!!!!!! (probably)!!!!!!!!!
w00t!!!!!
4- I heard that. Definitely whacked. They could use the excess lottery money for something much more useful.
It was pretty much given that the Dems would take the house….they and the GOP will be pretty close for the Senate…
Republicans weren’t very popular at the time of this election. Santorum/Casey was close; Casey won by only a few hundred votes….
w00t….now we get to hear about Democrat screw-ups for a change xD *laughs at Kerry*
I’m so optimistic, I know….
And I can vote in the next Presidential election. Won’t that be fun?
4- though that does seem rather silly, it would probably increase the number of voters.
My school district gets more money now! It passed!!!!!!
I’m pretty glad that Rumsfeld’s out.
Speaking of political ads:
(This came from Marketplace, the public radio show.)
NICE LADY: I’m a Mom, and I’m voting “yes” on Prop. 111. Prop. 111 provides free candy for every child in our state.
KID: I heart candy!
NICE LADY: And the candy won’t hurt their teeth, because Prop. 111 will fund the development of a high-tech polymer that protects kids’ teeth from decay. The polymer also makes kids 200 percent smarter and wealthier, and it makes them hate illegal drugs. And Prop. 111 does all this without raising taxes, by floating a series of magic astrological wizard bonds that incur zero debt while generating billions of dollars in revenue. If you believe in unicorns, vote yes on Prop. 111.
FAST MALE VOICE: Paid for by Citizens for Realism in Voting.
SCARY VOICE: Supporters of Prop. 111 say it gives candy to children. But thanks to special-interest loopholes, Prop. 111 will actually seal children in wooden barrels and roll them off the tops of skyscrapers.
KID: Help meeeeeeeeeeee!
SCARY VOICE: The plummeting child-stuffed barrels will destroy our roads — 10 percent of state revenue will go towards repaving the streets and burying the dead. And Prop. 111 has provisions for 900 new taxes, including one on the air you breathe. Prop. 111 was crafted in a cave full of vampire bats by demons with wings of fire. It hates you. If you are a human being, vote NO on 111.
FAST MALE VOICE: Paid for by Voters United Against Fearmongering.
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10- yes but your’ll have to put up you’r full name on the blog
DEMOCRATS ROCK!!! Deval Patrick is the first African – American governor in my state, and the second in the country.
I’m rather pleased with the results. Except governor. I WANTED KINKY FRIEDMAN TO WIN!!! *crying loudly* *very loudly*
My social studies teacher says that Democrats won because people are tired of the war in Iraq and Pres. Bush and stuff like that, so they voted for the opposite party. I would say something along the lines of either”cool” if I was Democrat or “that stinks” if I was Republican, but I don’t know what I am. Apparently, in social studies we’ll be finding out later in the year.
10 Awesome!! I won’t be able to vote in the next pres. election-I’ll be four monthes too young. I’ll have to wait until 2012.
Democrats!
In Pennsylvania Bob Casey and Ed Rendell won. Casey isn’t really one of my first choices, but he is WAY better than Santorum. And Swann didn’t really have a chance…
But I’m happy about the results!
i’m glad Rumsfeld’s gone and that the democrats are doing well. i think that our stupid governator’s back in, but i expected that anyway.
Democrats won in both the districts my school’s split between. Good, but one incumbent republican was nice. She always gave speeches at the girls’ science and technology things. Now she’s not a representative.
11- My school once got a ton of funding. And then 4.5 million dollars went into a football field. The extracurriculars are hideously under-funded.
12- Le gasp! Yeah, didn’t he just resign? Weeeeird.
15- So did I. He makes me laugh. The name says it all. Even Ahhhhh-nohld was re-elected in California.
17- We will lose a bit of influence in the Senate, though, with losing Santorum. He was big there. But he was an ID-supporting fiend. Aargh.
meesa happy!
8- yah, those ads are obnoxious!!!!!!!
i am so glad this is over my answering machine was ful of the
vote for this guy hes better than everyone else
dont vote for so and so he hate puppies and was in jail for 5 years because of animal abuse
i am wanting you to vote for my son
BLAH BLAH BLAH
me and my dad were debating about who should do what and omg it was sooooo annoying because every time he would make me feel so stupid
my old science teacher was running for somthing and he was gettin really freaked out so he was scarring all the sixth graders
because he was getting stressed of elections
and i dont think he won ??????
oh well im SICK AND TIRED OF POLITICS
Unrelated but people are here:This thread will change your life.
YAY!!! The democrats won’!!!
So who watched cnn in latin? XD doc is my hero…chappelle (history) looked the results up for us on the cnn website and we got to laugh at his lack of technological skillz, although not too much cuz he pwns. He took us on a field trip. Down to the gym. To see the voters. exciting.
anyway…yay! The democrats won! that equals good thing! until they mess up and everybody hates them and votes for republicans in the next election! but then they’ll screw up and everybody’ll hate them and vote for the democrats in the election after that! aah, politics. Just wait for somebody to screw up.
Where are the ohioans here? Issue 3 failed. yippee! that was so stupid. they obviously wouldn’t have given any money to education. or at least as little as they could get away with.
and ohio is now smoke-free, no? i’m not sure how i feel about that…i mean obviously i’d rather have it be smoke-free, it’s much more comfortable to breathe in and there’s an added bonus of not dying of secondhand smoke. but 5 is pretty restrictive as i remember. didn’t it even say like no smoking in bars? idk…i guess overall i’m happy with it. it just seems kind of dangerous though if they just start taking stuff away like that. well whatev.
12-HAHAHA that’s hilarious. i totally agree. w00t w00t!
12- VVV funny
The whole steel puppies thing was because Steel, a republican (didn’t win) did this commercial where he said that his opponents were saying things like steel hates puppies. Then his opponents group came right back with “Steel likes puppies, but he loves George Bush” Very cheesy, but it worked. Even the “these are my kids dissing my frank sonatra commercial” couldn’t save him from the reality that he almost always sided with the president, who is not very popular right now, as if anybody hadn’t noticed. Funny, though.
(all the replys to my post in 4) Yes, well the point is to increase voter turn out. Because, if you look at the statistics, it’s incredible how many people buy lottery tickets, even though they probably are more likely to be swallowed by a whale than win. So if people that carzy about lottery tickets, than it’s a very big incentive to vote. But that’s not necesarily a good thing. I mean, should we really reward people for doing something they should do in the first place? Also, it may people vote randomly, just for the sake of having a chance at a million bucks, rather than actually for democracy’s sake. That’s my view of things. I don’t really think the million dollars part affects much. Nowadyas a million bucks isn’t that much for government to fork over.
(12) Hahahahaha.
I looked up election results today during free period. I was so suprised that the democrats (nearly) took the Senate! I had expected them to take the House, but not the Senate. It made me happy.
And I was shocked at Rumsfeld’s resignation. Not sure why, but it really suprised me. I was glad though.
Stupid Arizona made English it’s official language!!!
GAH!!!! I was so angry! I mean, hello. We’ve got a huge percentage of Mexicans who don’t speak English. Making it the official language won’t help them, and it won’t help us either. It will just put more cultural strain on things. Grr.
Napolitano (AZ Governer) won by a landslide. That was a pretty good thing.
16- that’s so weird! MY social studies teacher said almost the exact same thing, but she also said that it was not good if one party was in power too long. She said that power for too long means corruption.
i will so miss the oh-so-personal calls from all our wonderful politicians asking me oh-so-nicely if i would vote for them.
*laughs sarcastically*
Here in MI, the Re-bloody-publicans are now the MINORITY PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GRANHOLM WON!!!!!!!!!!!!! My dad was partying at the Democratic headquarters that night. I was watching This is Spinal Tap to celebrate. Wheee!
I loved how my teacher said that she had the power to turn us into little Republicans or little Democrats if she wanted to. She said she wanted us to make up our own minds and so present an unbiased learning environment. (The world, however, is not unbiased.) I have made up my mind already, quite frankly. Her being a Republican would do nothing to stop me. If fact, it would probably make me feel more passionate about my own views. Besides, they brainwash us already. Silly people.
About Rumsfeld’s resignation, why do you think he did it? I’ll bet now they will say that everything was Rumsfeld’s fault, he was the only reason people are upset with the gov’t, and it will all change for the better now. It was also probably because of the large Democrat win YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I practically had a seizure when m mom told me Rummy resigned. I’m quite happy about the turn out of this election, though I still think Westley (for CA) should have been elected…but he got beat out in the first thing so…sigh.
27- thats so bloody stupid.
my voting district got the new electronic machines and the had the instructions for use in both english and spanish. the levers where funner to play with though. it isn’t as satisifying to presh a little bitton. oh well.
Why is everyone Democratic here? I am a Republican, or something like that…. I really am not any one side, though, as I think all the parties are whacked and biased.
27) I don’t live in Arizona, but I do live in Utah, and we have many Hispanics here too. But I don’t want to learn Spanish. If the Hispanics want to come to America, then the least they should do is learn the national language. I mean, if a bunch of Americans were to go illegally into Mexico, and refuse to learn their language, they would probably just kill them. And if they went in legally, they would be really confused and people would think they were illegal. And kill them.
SO WHY CAN’T THEY JUST LEARN ENGLISH! DANGITALL!!!!!
GREEN PARTY! GREEN PARTY! it’s officially a party here in good old Illinois. RICH WHITNEY FOR GOVERNOR. but oh well, blagoevich is back again
‘Judy Baar Topinka. What is she thinking?”
“Rod Blagoevich. Had Enough?
“Peter Roskam. Too Extreme for Us.”
“Tammy Duckworth. I don’t have a quote that I can remember, but I support the death tax, and I have a cool last name.”
35- ooh Duckworth is cool name
(34, Zyka) First of all, I object to you saying they would probably just kill them. Are you suggesting that Mexicans are somehow less civilzed that Americans? That’s what is sounded like. Rethink please. All human beings are equally capable of good and evil, regardless of nationality.
Second of all, I’m not saying Mexicans shouldn’t learn English when they come to the US. They should, if they want to be able to get jobs and such. But I don’t think it should be made official. That requires laws which put a strain on those who don’t learn English and makes it even more difficult for immigrants.
Cultural resentment= not something we need more of right now.
Rumsfeld resigning basically means he was fired. He was pressured into resignation by everyone. He totally messed up the military strategy…
And who was it who said that Kerry wasn’t a war hero, but just injured in battle? Own up, I’m gonna thrash you verbally.
(38) OK, thrash me verbally. I still think I’m right. I wasn’t saying he wasn’t brave or good or all that. But every time some one wants to support Kerry, they just drag in those Purple Hearts. I mean, if you go to war, it’s pretty likely that you’ll be injured. He deserves recognition for it, because it was a noble sacrifice, but it wasn’t anything super extra ordinary. And him being a war hero has absolutely nothing do with his politcal status. It’s not a reason to think he’d be a good leader.
To tell the truth, I don’t have that much against Kerry, but I just objected to you saying that because he got some Purple Hearts, that some how justified him being a good leader. I’m sorry, but great leaders don’t bungle bad jokes as badly as he just did. He may be a lot better than Bush, but you got to admit… he did just shoot himself in the foot…
Hopefully he’ll recover from the extremity wound, it’s starting to blow over. FS- because switzerland is such a peaceful country, have you ever known anybody who served in a war? who are you to say who is or is not a hero? My grandfather served in WWII, and I think he did what was right, however, that doesn’t mean that he did not assist in causing the deaths of hundreds if not thousands of people (navigator on a plane that dropped bombs) I think the real heroes are people who can right the world withought violence; though this might not always be an option.
39: He put his life at great risk many times to save other soldiers. Then the republicans came along and totally shat all over his war record. They made fun of purple hearts and degraded his heroism. It’s even more disgusting knowing that Dubya himself went AWOL from the national guard.
40: I know many people who were in a war. Lots of germans who moved here after the war, also a few concentration camp survivors. And heroism can be defined by various parameters. John Kerry is a WAR hero, not a peace hero. He was heroic in a WAR. An unnecessary and horrible war that was started for political and financial reasons.
Anyway, Politics.
*evil grin*
I stayed up until midnight watching the elections on the news, and ran in to school the next today without my homework done.
Me: THE DEMS GOT THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!
Friends: The who got the what?
Me: The House. The Democrats. Got.
Friends: Party? Who’s house?
Me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!!!! POLITICS!!!!
Friends: Ohh. Yeah, the elections. *pause* Is that good?
Me: YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was on the internet for spanish project, I read that Rummy had resigned, and I stood up and cheered right in the middle of conjugating past tense verbs. Everyone looked at me funny.
Then I found out about the Senate, and nearly killed myself cartwheeling down the hall.
The elections are making me really happy!
Which is really good because our government was making me really depressed.
But I’m happy now!
We had a mock-election at my school, and there were 3 republican voters..out of 500 people. I might have said that already, I’m not sure…if I did, sorry!
25- I live in Ohio! I think the results are pretty awesome… Yeah, I guess issue 5 was a bit resrictive, but, as I don’t smoke, it doesn’t bother me.
Ok people, not to sound dismissive or anything but practically everybody who goes into war is a war hero. seriously, war is where heroic things happen. they train (/brainwash) these people to stick together and protect their friends and everything and so that’s what they do. and it usually ends up being heroic because they’re being shot at at the time. i respect war heroes immensely, but there sure are a lot of them.
(41) Yes, OK, true. But do see my point? These reason I made the comment about him not being a war hero was because I objected to your logic. You were implying that because he went to war he was some kind of great leader. Lots of people went to war and they all deserve recognition for it (I think Ebeth put it a lot better than I did), but saying John Kerry is awesome just cause he went to war…well, the point is, it says nothing about him a political leader. I know my first post on the subject was badly worded, but I was just trying to make this point.
What’s really sad is how the US treats veterans. Alot of the homeless I’ve met were veterans from Vietnam. If they’re going to be asked to fight for “justice, freedom, and equality”, they should at least be guaranteed those things back home.
Speaking of homelessness, I recently found out that a neighboring town has passed a law that prohibits homeless people. Quite literally. They are arrested if they are found asleep or loitering within the town’s borders.
47-??? in that case the gov should just buy them a frickin house already. that is so not fair.
48. If the governmnet bought homes for homeless people then everyone would want a home and that would constitute communism.
44. What was issue five?
when politicians resign, it means they were about to be fired and wanted to make it appear that they decided to quit instead of being forced to. they just dont wanna admit they could do someting wrong
49- Issue 5 was a ban on smoking inside buildings… I’m not sure if there even was anywhere inside a builing that you could smoke in.
50- agree.
49-yes but my point was if they don’t want homeless people they should do something to help them. they don’t have to buy everybody houses if they don’t outlaw homeless people. that’s so stupid…ugh…
51-there are plenty. although in columbus, we pretty much already had an issue 5 type ban on smoking so it doesn’t really change anything
YAY! Pittsburgh passed a smoking ban. It goes in effect in January. yaysies!
Hmpf. Europe has had smoking bans since a few years ago… You’re late on the uptake.
(49) Is it so wrong for everyone to want a home?
It’s weird how the media in the US is incredibly anti-smoking, but we are behind Europe on smoking ban laws. Smoking seems to be a less big deal in Europe (as in, it’s not as frowned upon) but they have more, stronger laws opposing it.
…I just realized that was a lot of conjecture based on what I think is true. I haven’t been to Europe in a long time, so I’m not so sure…
{place where I live} had 2 anti-smoking laws in this election. One was a real anti-smoking law, the other was a less harsh one put up by the tobacco companies to try and keep people from voting for the harsh one. I’m not sure which one passed.
In Canada people who are 18 can do drugs
I agree Democracts rule MUSE RULES
28 Corruption? Really? I wonder why…. hmmm……..
35 What is the Green Party? I’ve never heard of it.
Sorry, I don’t know too much about politics. Nobody’s ever bothered to teach me.
51 We need a ban like that. I hate sitting near the smoking section of restraunts. It makes me feel sick.
Since everyone here is a Democrat, I will be Republican. Things should be evened out. Go Republicans.
59: The Green Party are the ecologists.
DAng Violindino u never heard of Al Gore, I bet u’ve got oprea for the news haaaaaa
hmm…maybe I’m a Green Party-ist (what do you call that?). I was just browsing their official site…
OMFG!
This will be the most shocking thing you have ever seen.
If anyone has on demand, go to documentaries and watch “Hacking Democrarcy”. You won’t regret it. I’m speechless.
ummmmmmmm ötzi…? first of all, I heard you wrong on the phone about that, second of all the reason we were looking at you weird in advisory was cause you were babbling bout politics adn we were trying to have a yearbook meeting. I do not remember anyone givng you a weird look in spanish… WE HAVEN’T EVEN STARTED WORKING ON PAST TENSE VERBS!!!!!! anywho… in the middle of spanish, someone… said in the middle of our research project “We have Montana!” and the room errupted in cheers. Yippee! we have congress! At least inour state we didn’t have to go through the HUGE controversy we went through last gubernatorial race… Our election lasted like three months!!!!! guess what State i live in… whooooo!!!! go Cantwell!!!!!
oooh. i gotta post here.
WE WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAYNES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LIEBERMAN WON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! aww @!%@#%
now im sad.
i know this is late, but w/e.
Hey, I’m late too.
I have no idea who won. Probably that guy I hate who lies all the time and backstabs his opponents. (I won’t name him, that would be mean, those politicians get enough angry comments about them already)
61 Why do you assume I haven’t heard of Al Gore? Of course I’ve heard of Al Gore!
I love politics. The politicians themselves nearly always suck to the highest degree, though.
I really want to move to Canada, for numerous reasons…*sigh* I cannot wait until I graduate.
AHHHHHHHHHHHH POLITICS
i wish i was like the Nac Mac Feegle and had a sword that glowed blue near lawyers
that would make life so much easier.
i have lawyerphobia, sorry to anyone that know/is a lawyer, its not you, it’s me!
sniffffffffffffffle.
snort
AH NEED TISSUE
34- Because we’re totally awesome.
68- I want to move to England. Oddly, all of my friends do too.
70: Come to Switzerland instead. We pwn everyone.
England pwns you all! And your kittens too! It’s really fr00dy that you live in Switzerland. You do live in Switzerland, right? My mom wants to go there so bad.
switzerland sucky!!!!
this is mean, but it seems logical that in ww2 they didnt like jews. (they didnt fight hitler) pacifism is good 99% of the time, but in ww2, it was bad. at the end of the war, switzerland made huge sums of money because dead people had $ in ther bank accounts. i think this is true. they should ahve done what dfenmark did. best resistanse in the world, helped allmost all danish jews to safety.
oh wait… that was very political. but, its a sorta politics thread, so ima leave it.
70 – Before you decide to permanently pop across the pond, wait till it rains and stand in it for a couple of hours. Not that we actually do that for fun, but you’ll need to get used ot it. Many years ago, we used to have interesting things like snow, but now global warming melts it before it descends, so we just get more rain. And grey. We have lots of grey. We spell it with an ‘e’ because English grey is a special sort of grey that you don’t get anywhere else. It’s greyer – sort of velvety, and very soporific provided you’re sitting in front of a log fire toasting crumpets.
We do get long, hot summers now though. Which we complain about, because we’re British. Too dry. We need some rain for the garden. Grass is looking yellow. Water shortages in the South because the water supply companies are incompetent and don’t fix leaks because they don’t need to because we get so much rain. Except in summer, which you’d think they’d realise.
On the other hand, if you like history, weirdness or both, we have those in bucketfuls. And badgers. We have badgers.
73: Dude, if we’d have made any show of resistance, Hitler would have annexed us to the third reich in no time. He were lucky, because he was already scared of our über-awesome military, but he still would have invaded. As it was, many rich swiss people privately bought off many jews from the concentration camps. It isn’t logical that we don’t like jews. Look at Sweden, they traded openly with Germany to avoid being conquered. In fact Finland pwns us all because they resisted the Soviet Union for the entire war. W Mannerheim!
74- I live in Texas. I’m pretty used to hot weather. I’m also wierd and like history so I would fit in. I is liking of badgers as well.
75- Huh?
75-i know they would have been invaded, but in what way was Denmark not? the swiss couldve resisted helping them. some rich people bought people off the concentration camps? what about the government? and im not saying that sweden’s good. allthough it is. but i wont defend them. maybe funlands okay. but they speak finnish.which is just wierd. so they lose.
77: Finland pwns. Norway comes second. And we were at greater risk because a) we’re in a strategically important position, we control passage from north of the alps to the south, b) we were surrounded by 4 axis nations, Germany, Austria (annexed to Germany), Italy (fascisti) and France (occupied by German troops). So considering the situation, we did damn well.
70: England’s cool. I’m used to rain. And grey. We get lots of rain and grey here, too. I might move there someday.
*9.0 earthquake as all of Ötzi’s revolutionist ancestors turn over in thier graves* *Brief pause* *another 9.0 earthquake as French other side of family follow suit*
Or maybe not.
77-78: Switzerland was never invaded because everyone’s money was in Swiss banks. And I do mean everyone. Nobody bombs thier own money.
WOOT! First post in 2 days! …… pathetic….
wow, SM.
It’s dead.
79: Dammit, you invade Switzerland and you own everyone’s money.
69-That was Bilbo.
83-Mwahahahaha…*puts on List of Things To Do Once I Become Supreme Ruler of the Universe*
I think the swiss were fine during WWII. They did secretly help jews a lot, and didn’t they let them into their country, or am i wrong there? Sure they didn’t fight, they’re not suicidal. They were a lot more help alive.
i think they did help the jews