I love how the idea that an election is anything other than a request to the average citizen to decide who they would like to be screwed by this time around..

I also find it odd that America only has two choices since America seems so pro choice , I could be missing something but shouldn't there be more choices ?

BTW The last time I voted it was for these folk

Official Monster Raving Loony Party - Homepage

They are a genuine 100% kosher political party.

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Right now, I feel the same way. Come Nov. I WILL have a choice and I will exercise it. Even if I feel it is picking the lesser of 2 evils. I was one of the lucky that got to vote for Robert Kennedy when they lowered the voting age, so I could and have since! See where my vote got him! So, with luck I'll pick another lucky one!

This thread made me laugh my ass off, good job all!

In all seriousness, I vote because I feel it gives me bitching rights! Plus, the president is not the most important thing I vote for or against! There are many more important things on a ballot. At least in my state!

What I do not understand is why they put a lot of Judges, school elected officials and that type of stuff on the ballot and give you what the candidate says of themself and you have to decide from that? I think the judges are important, as much as the supreme court. And we don't get a choice with them, which I would like, because we at least get to know more about them! I feel it is important who choses school ciriculum (or however u spell it) and who would send me to jail if I decide to take the law into my own hands. As, there have been times, I prefer Texas streetside justice! Like when the guy next door would not even get a fence for his killer doberman and then goats. The goats distroyed 2 of the 3 fences I put between me and it and then my little dog lost an eye. No one gave a shit. They would not pay. And it was my precious little baby with what the vet's (as I tried hard to save the eye, many specialist's) said, It was the most vicious attack of all. The dog bite's the head and shakes until it breaks the others neck. I was lucky she lived. More concerned from that, they had unexplained deaths of goats and reported the dog had attacked a goat. Yet did nothing. And they had a 2 yr. old that plays in their yard! I feared that kid would be next!! I have seen dead kids with munched heads and mother's waiting hoping you can save them with scrambled brains for life! Responsible ownership is why we have to license things. But fishing, well, if you have fished in CA, they stock one day and the lake is empty the next. I doubt anyone follows those laws anyway, I can't catch my limit. But, I pay for them to get there! And that is how we get some of our freedom, pay for it thorugh taxes, license's and most of all voting!

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HATE DESTROYS-SO LEAVE HATE TO THOSE TOO WEAK TO LOVE!
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Forgot, since it has been 4 years since I've seen the real ballot. We have write in. the Green party and the Independent Party, as I recall. Could be wrong!

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The time you give is the most precious gift of all-to all!
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HATE DESTROYS-SO LEAVE HATE TO THOSE TOO WEAK TO LOVE!
Imagine WORLD PEACE!

There actually are more than two parties in the US and almost always more than two choices in an election, but generally only the candidates from the two major parties are viable for President. Other parties sometimes get senators or congressmen elected, but I don't think there has ever been a minor party president. There is nothing in the Consittution that says it has to be this way, but as a practical matter that's how it works out. Becasue we don't have a structure that supports coalition type governments, it just ends up being that if you don't vote for one of the two major party candidates, you are generally just throwing your vote away or making a "protest" vote. Often a third semi-viable candidate will end up acting as a "spoiler" for the other candidate that is closest in policy. So in 1992, Ross Perot ran and ended up siphoning off votes from George Bush the senior. Many Perot voters probably would have picked Bush as a second choice, but by casting their vote for Perot, they didn't get their first or second choice. Same thing happend when Nader ran on the Green ticket and ended up pulling votes from Al Gore in 2000.

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More of the same: Renger's Rantings

YouTube - Charles Durning in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas

Charles Durning for president ..

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Mr. Praline: 'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e
rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the
bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!! THIS IS AN EX-PARROT!!

Ha ha! The song and dance was something we see on the news everyday, but done with more STYLE. My favorite part was the quote about the Middle East, "It behoves the Jews and Aay-rabs to settle their differences in a Christian manner!"

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(i'll write in) i still vote. Haters/conformists can suk it.

On the ballot, I see---2 gold plated turds, both are shit filled.

wtf, that aint no choice.

*sigh* people will have to learn sooner or later to stop picking who will lead you and start leading yourselves.

they HAVE to... elsewise we're all slaves in time.

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voting is a fukin joke, like there's a winning choice....wth. I'd rather play a scratch off ticket. I at LEAST have better chances of winning.

imo- all this aristocratic shit started with the whiskey rebellion..ie-alexander hamilton, "go, george get em pay tax"....and btw, i'm glad A.B killed yo dam ratt ass. haha

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