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  • #16
    Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

    Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
    In any event, the whole "election day" is going by the wayside. There will only be more and more early voting, electronic voting from your home or work, etc..., as we go forward. Election day will just turn into the day in which we count the votes previously cast.
    Oregon went to all mail in voting something like 15 years ago, and it's been an outstanding success, despite OR leading the league in ridiculous number of ballot measures (about a dozen every election). The day the country as a whole does that we will be much stronger for it.
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    • #17
      Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

      Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
      Just out of curiosity, why is it assumed turning Election Day into a national holiday benefits Democratic candidates and hurts Republican candidates?
      Because poor people who work multiple jobs (1) are the people who most don't have the time to vote, and (2) vote overwhelmingly Democratic. They would be the people who would be helped the most by having a national holiday.
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      • #18
        Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        Because poor people who work multiple jobs (1) are the people who most don't have the time to vote, and (2) vote overwhelmingly Democratic. They would be the people who would be helped the most by having a national holiday.
        I thought they were the ones who are too lazy to work, suck at the gov't teat full time, and spend most of election day standing around the polling places waving clubs? Isn't it only Republicans who work for a living?
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        • #19
          Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

          Originally posted by geezer View Post
          I thought they were the ones who are too lazy to work, suck at the gov't teat full time, and spend most of election day standing around the polling places waving clubs? Isn't it only Republicans who work for a living?

          Republicans do not work, they only sit around collecting dividend checks and watching their stock portfolios grow in value.
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          • #20
            Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

            Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
            Republicans do not work, they only sit around collecting dividend checks and watching their stock portfolios grow in value.
            where do I sign?
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            • #21
              Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              Perhaps this is good.
              That is great news!
              In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre, 'Au revoir, gopher'.

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              • #22
                Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                Oregon went to all mail in voting something like 15 years ago, and it's been an outstanding success, despite OR leading the league in ridiculous number of ballot measures (about a dozen every election). The day the country as a whole does that we will be much stronger for it.
                At home voting seems like a good thing when there are lots of ballot measures - I always prefer open book tests!
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                • #23
                  Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                  Originally posted by LynahFan View Post
                  At home voting seems like a good thing when there are lots of ballot measures - I always prefer open book tests!
                  The best thing about the OR ballot measures is there is a short blurb that the pro and con sides are allowed to write stating their respective positions. It is usually pretty obvious from reading these which side is lying.

                  My favorite perennial OR ballot measure is trying to overturn the prohibition on pumping your own gas. It may have finally passed by now, but for years the sheer inventiveness of the "con" side was hilarious. Other favorites: allowing children under 12 to ride in flatbeds on state highways, allowing 18 year olds to serve in the state leg, and my personal favorite -- voters must approve any tax increase with a statewide referendum, but the leg can enact any tax cut by simple majority.

                  90% of ballot measures are defeated, the other 10% come down to a 50/50 split between the eco-terrorists and the herpa-derps.
                  Last edited by Kepler; 11-10-2014, 08:54 PM.
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                  • #24
                    Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                    Originally posted by geezer View Post
                    I thought they were the ones who are too lazy to work, suck at the gov't teat full time, and spend most of election day standing around the polling places waving clubs? Isn't it only Republicans who work for a living?
                    True. It's also only Republicans who have ever died for their country, worshiped god correctly, protected womanhood and apple pie, and (sniff) love the flag.
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                    • #25
                      Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                      Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                      Because poor people who work multiple jobs (1) are the people who most don't have the time to vote, and (2) vote overwhelmingly Democratic. They would be the people who would be helped the most by having a national holiday.
                      Bad premise. (caution: clunky sentence agead). The jobs that employ people who need to work multiple jobs are far, far more likely to not give vacation for a national holiday. How many Micky Ds are open on Christmas? More than you think.
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                      • #26
                        Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                        Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                        Bad premise. (caution: clunky sentence agead). The jobs that employ people who need to work multiple jobs are far, far more likely to not give vacation for a national holiday. How many Micky Ds are open on Christmas? More than you think.
                        That's not a bad premise, it's an elaboration on the premise.

                        The people who work the hardest make the least. Compare janitors to bankers (which is a particularly appalling example since it's also a case where social utility is inversely proportional to salary). The usual GOP slander about "work harder, people on welfare are depending on you" would be funny if it weren't so despicable.
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                        • #27
                          Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                          That's also a load of ****. Absolute bullsh it.

                          I work my ****ing *** off and have put in hundred-hour weeks. I make a **** good salary but don't you dare say I don't work for it. What a load of liberal garbage.
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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                            That's also a load of ****. Absolute bullsh it.

                            I work my ****ing *** off and have put in hundred-hour weeks. I make a **** good salary but don't you dare say I don't work for it. What a load of liberal garbage.
                            Yeah, but do you scrub **** out of toilets?
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                            • #29
                              Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                              Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                              That's also a load of ****. Absolute bullsh it.

                              I work my ****ing *** off and have put in hundred-hour weeks. I make a **** good salary but don't you dare say I don't work for it. What a load of liberal garbage.
                              And yet every janitor that's not just in it for a 20-hour week paycheck would take your job in a heartbeat.

                              Plus my guess is Kepler didn't have an engineer in mind when he made the comment. Not even peripherally.

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                              • #30
                                Re: 2nd Term Part IX - How Lame is my Duck

                                FYI Kep the "pump your own gas rule" was still in effect when I lived in Seattle last year from what I was told.
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