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(9,610 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)Three straight Democratic tickets voted by hubs, me and daughter...three more coming from our house ...sister, daughter and son. Go Dems...prove the pundits wrong...VOTE.
kpete
(71,986 posts)our 3 year old grand daughter with us tonight
mr pete, kpete & little pete
peace to you Demsrule86,
kp
Gothmog
(145,153 posts)think
(11,641 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)straight democratic Party vote
Just got back home from voting.
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)sarge43
(28,941 posts)Straight Democratic. Go away Scottie.
hedgehog
(36,286 posts)in already(!) and all 6 voting booths engaged - very unusual for this area. It might be because the Republicans are fighting among themselves over the position of Highway Superintendent.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)Straight Democratic ticket.
freebrew
(1,917 posts)"NO" to 4 horrible amendments to our state constitution.
1 vote for the only Democrat on the ballot. Thanks Dem party for all of your help here. I saw not one ad for the only Democratic candidate. And you beg me for $$$? (that was sarcasm, in case you couldn't tell)
I did get to vote for Popeye and a few other cartoon characters...
At the poll. Straight Democratic ticket, No to wolf hunting. It only took minutes, and I feel good about it!
snooper2
(30,151 posts)LOL
where was my stereotypes song again?
William769
(55,145 posts)Straight Democratic ticket.
My BIL actually sent out an email asking for us to vote for a friend of his that turned out to be a Republican. I'm going to have to be semi-gentle with him when I tell him I didn't vote for his friend. I will not go so far as to say that IMO at this time you have to be greedy, evil or just plain stupid to be a Republican. I'll just tell him I filled in the Straight Ticket button before I got to his friend and was surprised to see he was a Repub. Maybe then I'll hear something about why he wanted us to vote for this guy.
that's my story
gademocrat7
(10,656 posts)My wife and I were there when the doors opened and we've cast our votes.
I would have voted anyway, but I was particularly motivated because I was 100% permanently and totally disabled in the line of duty in the military and I see that the Republicans are eying veterans benefits again. Senator Coburn, Republican of Oklahoma seems to think we have too many benefits and commissioned a report about what we're eligible to receive. Probably ordered it up right after reviewing his own benefits as a Senator and deciding he and the rich could have more if he took from us. I'm sure he'd give a stirring speech about how willing veterans are to sacrifice for the good of the country. Like they're making me rich or something. Yeah, right. Sorry, I've sacrificed enough and I'd like to be able to afford to live like a human and take care of my family. Maybe even keep my home. I'm greedy like that.
But trying to screw veterans is a longstanding Republican tradition, and this is just the latest attempt. John McCain, Michelle Bachmann and others have tried in the past. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled a while back that veterans benefits are the PROPERTY of the veteran, not entitlements. But I guess the Republicans are OK with depriving me of my property, for which I contracted with the government and served until I couldn't anymore, without due process or consideration of the potential impact on me and my family.
I have a friend who works for the VA and has been paying attention and tracking things for many years who tells me that veterans ALWAYS do better under a Democratic Congress and administration.
I've been retired from the military for 23 years now, and for all 23 years, I have lived not only with my service-connected disabilities, but also with the constant threat of having my benefits, my PROPERTY according to the 9th Circuit, stolen. For two cents, I'd sue the Republican Party for exacerbating my service-connected disabilities year after year for 23 years.
And as icing on the cake, I now have a daughter in university, and the aspiring Senatorial candidate from my state, a Republican, would like to cut her scholarships here in her second year of university if he's elected. Can't afford that, either.
Needless to say, I voted a straight Democratic ticket, as did my wife. Any veteran who votes Republican is shooting himself in the foot. And Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be soldiers.
Duval
(4,280 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)Hope it means Governor Gasshole will be toast by the end of the day!
calimary
(81,220 posts)I'm wearing my sticker! I vote because I know there are lots of people out there who'd rather I didn't.