🚀 go-pugleaf

Silas Warner wrote:
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> Just a reminder after all this political debate has disgusted you,
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> Three good reasons to do so:
> 
> 1) Remember, your ballot stub is your ticket to bitch and moan
> about how badly the idiots and criminals are running the guvmint.
> I remember 1972, when as Nixon twisted slowly in the wind,
> bumper stickers appeared all over the nation saying,
> "Don't blame me...I voted for McGovern!"
> The sales of those bumper stickers, of course, far exceeded the
> actual vote for McGovern.  But remember, you not only have the
> constitutional right to vote...you have the constitutional right
> to lie about it afterwards!
> 
> 2) Even in Utah, North Carolina, Massachussetts, or other benighted
> states where the total is a foregone conclusion, you are helping to
> confound the pollsters who predicted a near-unanimous landslide for
> the eventual winner without ever consulting YOU about it!
> 
> 3) Even if you do vote for a total loser, there's a consolation
> prize.  If your turkey gets more than 5% of the vote, that party
> gets up to $30 million in matching campaign grants from the
> Federal goddamguvmint!  And that comes from YOUR taxes...specifically
> from that little $1 checkoff on your Form 1040.  You're not meant
> to know that fact...but Clinton knows it, and Dole knows it, and
> believe me, Ross Perot knows it!
> 
> So go out there and do your bit for democracy...and while you're about
> it, try to "accidentally" stomp on one of the hundreds of picket signs
> planted the requisite distance from your polling place, just to make
> the world a little less ugly.
> 
>                                                   Silas WarnerVoting does show its results. You mentioned Massachettus as a preordained 
state? How wrong can you be, the govenor is a republican and most 
representatives are democrats. They recognize the potential problems when 
one party controlls all houses. People look out for your wallets!! Don't 
let pesimist fool you your vote does count.