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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid any other "Liberals" vote today?
After much reflection I changed my mind and voted for Democrats for the first time in... jeez... three months or so.
Any other "Liberals" have a change of heart and vote?
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)cyberswede
(26,117 posts)...but I need mind bleach.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,013 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)LawDeeDah
(1,596 posts)TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)ms liberty
(8,572 posts)pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)neverforget
(9,436 posts)DirkGently
(12,151 posts)(Voted by mail!)
dgauss
(882 posts)Good God I'm still laughing. Perfect.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)I believe that +90% of the people here voted and did so for the Dems on the ballot.
Are you on something?
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)Ego trip is my guess.
You know why he posted that.
Don't pretend that you don't then come claiming tomorrow about "liberals didn't vote".
No.
Just NO.
RedstDem
(1,239 posts)Can't they just use a magic wand?
wyldwolf
(43,867 posts)That only works when:
Very liberal candidates are running in blood-red districts
Very liberal electeds convince conservative majorities to pass their legislation.
Of course, none of that ever happens.
gopiscrap
(23,736 posts)and I am to the left of liberal!
LoisB
(7,197 posts)complain about politics and politicians so if I don't vote, I have no right to complain.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I couldn't tell.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)So all four of us are going at the same time, since they didn't have a ride and were moving extra slow today. I am being quite patient with them. We need those votes. After this I'm going to drive around to everyone I know and make sure they went and see if they need a ride. Heading out now, see you for results tine!!! I'm. So excited my stomach hurts!
Aerows
(39,961 posts)though. None. NONE. /s
You just went to the polling place and decided, no, I'll just go home.
And yes, that is sarcasm because every time a Dem loses, the blame is placed on lack of voter turn out.
I've hauled 3 (counting myself) to the polls, and encouraged everyone I met today to do so..
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Slightly longer wait than usual, minimum wage on the ballot, cannabis, if we lose everything I'll be surprised. I'm getting me some wine for my nerves.
Turn out seems decent.
On my way to take my Uncle if he hasn't gone.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Take the cousins, take your aunts and uncles, cousins, and their neighbors if they need a ride, my dear!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Our polls close last, so if anyone needs me, I'm here. I just reminded a stoner friend that today is the day. Polls close late here, so we will be voting for another five hours here. I'm trying to remind people without landlines or cable.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)to the polls.
This was a crazy day. It's time to have a drink and watch this drama.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and have a drink with you.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)tea heavily. Iced tea, no sugar. Camellia Sensinses is my favorite beverage. I have a couple of plants to put iinto the ground.
Probably couldn't plant them in Alaska, but I probably couldn't enjoy Alaska, either.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It's making me fat, but I don't care. I was a cola addict for a long time. Now I just smoke a bit a relax with my tea. Can't really abide alcohol. Makes me sick.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)drink it plain. Provides antioxidants, fluorides to make your teeth and bones hardy, and it hydrates you.
I drink it plain. It is a perfect beverage if you brew it strong, every day, and drink it with nothing. Hard teeth, hard bones, and antioxidant benefits.
Steps off soap box.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)My vices will be the death of me.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)Like the gallon and I'm so jealous you live in AK..
I keep some all the time. You can move up here, it's nice and we have plenty of land. Hunters and hippies mingle pretty well up here. But the politics drive me crazy. And lots of rapos and pedos. Gotta watch out.
But if you take a nature walk, you'll never want to leave here. Makes me feel like Ayla from Clan of the Cave Bear.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I am so damn jealous
I already live in the sticks (hi, deer walking in the back yard) but you have such a gorgeous land.
Forgive me, I envy your backyard .
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)but the poll workers said it's always pretty crazy down there after work.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)This time there were a few more people there than usual. People were taking their time reading the ballots, so I waited in line for a few minutes.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I'm so hoping Mark hangs on. The whole control of the senate is kind of dependent on us. Sullivan is such a clone.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I like Mark and I never want to see another Sullivan commercial in my life.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Doesn't he remind you of Oliver North? Not just the way he looks but his mannerisms, as well. He seems mildly evil to me.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)He has that narcissistic edge that Brown has with a twist of MIC lies and bullshit. I have been rewatching all of my show i love on dvd lately. But my phone.... It rings and rings, crossroads gps won't stop! It's bordering on harassment.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)and I'm not going to apologize for calling both of them sorry ass examples of ... they are so yucky, I can't explain what species of dog crap they are.
I know, I went off, but those are sorry excuses for dog crap.
Autumn
(45,042 posts)Simply because I dropped off my ballot over a week ago.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Autumn
(45,042 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Are you ready for the pre-2016 election wars?
Autumn
(45,042 posts)I'm Bernie/ Liz ready.
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)I voted early instead, despite the best efforts of you and Will to depress my vote!
BKH70041
(961 posts)villager
(26,001 posts)After having mailed in my ballot a few days ago...
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)And that reminded me, 'hey, I'm a stoner'. So I ordered some Cheetos from Amazon Prime and packed a bowl. But I might vote. There's this one friend of mine, he has a car, and he could give me a ride to...well, I get confused. I think you're supposed to just go to different churches and school gyms until you see people lined up. So I'll either vote or take communion or something.
Christine O'Donnell is still running in California, right?
Spark up the vote.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)decided he was never going to vote again, "because they're all alike" - to vote Democratic.
"If you're not into the business of politics, it will be into your business soon..." and so forth. You can reach young people if you'd take two fucking seconds to listen to their point of view and stop judging them.
If you take the time to understand their lives so you can explain to them how the philosophies of the opposing politicians will affect their lives, you can get them to the polls.
"Damn fucking liberals. They come to this here Democratic Mainstream site ( not "underground" by any means any more, I can feel it in me bones that there are shudders from many DUers for my typing "fucking" right out there in the open like that) "spoutin' all that durn radical librull nonsense!"
"Them durn stoner librulls in this party ruin elections!"
Well I went to the polls to ruin it for you Centrists.
Don't you just hate that?
So tomorrow you can blame ME because YOU have no clue how to reach the voters for mid-terms.
Zorra
(27,670 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Now back to chucking wood.
democrank
(11,092 posts)work on my unicorn sculpture....or vote. I voted. All Democrats but one independent....where I knew the Democrat vote was safe. To my surprise, I wasn`t the only one there with Birkenstocks, love beads and colorful Alpaca mittens. Not a single Volvo in the parking lot but I did catch sight of a half-crashed pickup truck with duct tape and a Bernie bumpersticker. It was a thing of beauty.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)You owe me a new keyboard. That was perfect.
PAProgressive28
(270 posts)Oh wrong election. Of course I voted. í
Algernon Moncrieff
(5,790 posts)I voted yesterday.
By the expedient of offering to take my wife to lunch if she'd come with me, I bought another vote.
longship
(40,416 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)I voted last Tuesday!
Le Taz Hot
(22,271 posts)My choice for state senator, however, was an interesting one. Completely batshit crazy (R) or Almost Completely batshit crazy (D). Sorry, I could not vote for either one of them. State Assembly - no Democrat listed so I left that one blank, too.
sadoldgirl
(3,431 posts)they only send me one ballot, which I sent off a week ago.
Too bad, I would have liked a second one like some others got in my state.
nashville_brook
(20,958 posts)was too busy driving election protection materials around.
i mailed my ballot a couple of weeks ago
Skittles
(153,142 posts)HAW
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I voted on October 23rd. For Alaska's best. They may not necessarily be liberal, but they're not Republicans, and that's good enough for me ... for now.
vi5
(13,305 posts)Stop trying to change the blame narrative before the very serious, very always right and never wrong, adult centrists even get the chance to trot it out and hold us accountable for our incessant pony wanting.
Fawke Em
(11,366 posts)I'm in Tennessee, so my state and national elections won't change a thing, but I have two local elections - state senate and congress that are HUGE - retaining a liberal and electing a liberal (to replace Stacy Campfield, who lost to an empty suit Republican in the primary).
Does that count?
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)And II and III.
Not my business, just observatin'
Phlem
(6,323 posts)sat on the table for 2 days before I sent them back.
It was really nice to get them in early so I wouldn't have to feel invested in any of the ads pouring out. Just needed to pay attention to voting fuckery.
I voted a straight D ticket.
When do we do this again?
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Maybe he is waiting until 2016 so the H. Clinton supporters will have someone to blame but themselves.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)It's our fault for being too puny to have any effect.
It's our fault for staying home in numbers so vast that we lose the elections for Democrats.
We are the alpha and the omega of suck.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I remember that one a few years back. We got blamed for several losses because we dared to insist on rights and such.
QC
(26,371 posts)we might win some elections!!1!11!!!
(Had to do it for old times sake.)
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I remember that. Wow, they loved blaming us. Guess they need a new scapegoat now.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Just to piss off the Third Way and the corporate DCCC.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025736826
stage left
(2,961 posts)Since I've been voting for them since 1972. I'm stuck in my ways I guess.
deurbano
(2,894 posts)The year 18-year-olds got the vote...and I turned 18 in time for the general, but not the primary.
we rock!
H2O Man
(73,528 posts)I'm not a liberal; I am a progressive, well to the left of liberal. I believe our nation (and the world) needs revolutionary change. Not violent change, which rarely changes anything. But the revolution of values -- which creates revolutionary behaviors -- that King spoke of in his April, 1967 address at the Riverside church.
L0oniX
(31,493 posts)I voted by mail in ballot weeks ago.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)I forgot to pay my poll tax!
Kidding. Of course I voted. (Sort of kidding about the poll tax.)
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)And makes voters tell poll workers how many bubbles are in a bar of soap too.
Jamastiene
(38,187 posts)I vote every chance they give me, even if it is for dog catcher only (that hasn't ever actually happened) at the time. I always know who I do NOT want to win. I vote for the one running against who I know I do NOT want to win. That's enough incentive, by itself.
Initech
(100,060 posts)Considering the fact that schools in California could be sold to the highest bidder, we can't let that shit stand!
navarth
(5,927 posts)except for every other time.
stupidicus
(2,570 posts)which seems appropriate given the Paulbot-mole status I've been given as a critic...
arcane1
(38,613 posts)But soon!!!
G_j
(40,366 posts)jeepers
(314 posts)Was having such a hard time deciding what with all the D's and R's and I's and l's so I walked to the polls today thinking I would have an epiphany but no such luck. Voted straight Dem just because I've always done it that way. Something about the definition of insanity though...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)than you can shake a stick at.
Okay, only two, mom and my neighbor.
Better than not doing anything. I had to work and 3 other things to do like taking the cat for her shots, but convinced the ladies in the office to vote, too.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Can you imagine what would happen on this site if I shook a stick at even a single woman?
No thanks. I'd be pilling out arrows for months while pondering my banishment.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)I shake sticks when it comes to voting. It sounds violent but live with elderly parents that wave canes.
TDale313
(7,820 posts)liberal, often disappointed by the Dems, but was so happy to vote and to vote Democratic today.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)I feel rather ill knowing that I just voted against my best interests simply because my other choice was also a conservative but slightly more extreme.
I am thinking about installing a vomitorium in my home for fellow liberals and myself to take advantage of in two years. voting against my best interests will likely be the only option yet again and as I fall further into poverty with the rest of my class I imagine the nausea will return in force.
We will still get blamed for losses because the coveted moderate Republicans still voted for Republican full flavor and the party can't continue to cater to them and their kindred Republicans if the blame for the loss isn't placed on us rather than the failed strategy they will wish to use again.
ms liberty
(8,572 posts)In one of the so-called battleground states, NC.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Left Liberal is more like it for us lol
Puglover
(16,380 posts)For progressive liberals.
Franken
Dayton
Ellison.
All that happily should win easily.
It's cold here but aside from that it doesn't suck.
ileus
(15,396 posts)blondie58
(2,570 posts)With my ballot I received in the mail. 😼
BuelahWitch
(9,083 posts)But this liberal voted!
pablo_marmol
(2,375 posts)But there was no change of heart involved.
I never abstain from casting a ballot.
scarletwoman
(31,893 posts)So haha on you liberals, I voted, too!
Straight Dem, as I have every damn election since the midterms of 1970.
Liberalynn
(7,549 posts)all Democratic candidates! I vote in memory of all those past women who didn't get the chance.
May not like Governor Cuomo as much as I liked his Dad but as long as his opponent is a Puke, Andrew has my vote. Now if his opponent is a more liberal democrat, sorry dude.
barbtries
(28,787 posts)for what it's worth yes i voted for only democrats.
i feel as if there is some sub-text here of which i am unaware. but yes i voted. i'm in NC, i really must.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)aren't *really* Liberals. We're... um... sorry, I can't say the word, I'm too old school.
Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025751523
Phlem
(6,323 posts)purists.
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)Always do. Often its only symbolic, but there it is.
Luminous Animal
(27,310 posts)Scuba
(53,475 posts)I voted last week.
ozone_man
(4,825 posts)Lots of progressives on my ballot in Vermont, so I voted across party lines, half D's, half P's, one or two Liberty Union. I think that was once Bernie's party..
QC
(26,371 posts)so I just stayed home and organized my Birkenstock collection.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)WHEN CRABS ROAR
(3,813 posts)for legalization and GMO labeling.
whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)the base.
DirkGently
(12,151 posts)whereisjustice
(2,941 posts)be the smart ones, right?
LWolf
(46,179 posts)I voted 2 weeks ago.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)But much of the rest of the country will drag us into the murky depths of the lunatic republican fringe. So a lot of good it'll do. This liberal isn't to blame that's FFS.
progressoid
(49,969 posts)I voted a couple weeks ago.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)philly_bob
(2,419 posts)Election Day: Voted straight Democratic in Philadelphia -- except not for Chaka Fattah, the Representative from Comcast. Full of dread for election outcome nationally, with possibility of Republicans taking both houses of Congress. But too much of the Democratic Party machine has ignored and disrespected its progressive principles and constituents in favor of corporate contributors. I did not volunteer or donate more than $50 to the Democratic effort. But I did vote. It was, as the old joke goes, the least I could do.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)I don't feel represented or encouraged in the slightest but I still voted.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)It's interesting how Deval seemed to turn into a Liberal during his time in office.
Maybe Coakley could do the same, although I tend to doubt it.
BlindTiresias
(1,563 posts)We'll see if Coakley wins, what I have been hearing hasn't been so great though.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)Voted straight D in NY today with one exception... Suck it Andy, I voted for Howie.
Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)Even voted for the Dems who ran unopposed.
If Baker wins I'm jumping a bridge, though.
mvd
(65,170 posts)So happy about Wolf. But the Senate disgusts me so far.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)I was going to skip voting to teach the president a lesson, but old habits die hard.
KittyKat13
(19 posts)Maybe we should all just abstain from voting in protest to show that elections are not fair.
GeorgeGist
(25,318 posts)I'm double liberal.
CrispyQ
(36,446 posts)I'm so fucking depressed this morning I don't have one fucking good thing to say.