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Title: Texans
Post by: Jackal1 on March 04, 2008, 06:00:11 AM
Today is the day. Get off your behinds and get out and friggin VOTE!
Title: Texans
Post by: indy007 on March 04, 2008, 07:51:47 AM
It's November already? :huh
Title: Texans
Post by: Airscrew on March 04, 2008, 08:43:02 AM
Been and done...  Very funny to watch my wife and I walk in, and then split... her to the Demo table and me to the Repub table...:lol   she says we're incompatible (20 years).    I was going to screw around with Hillary and Obama but... we need a new Sheriff and the one I want is a republican.
Title: Texans
Post by: Shuffler on March 04, 2008, 09:52:41 AM
Amazing radio interview of obama this morning. He was able to put together a whole lot of words and not say anything.

Hillary sneered on the radio yesterday.... but you could not see it.
Title: Texans
Post by: john9001 on March 04, 2008, 09:56:53 AM
vote early and vote often.
Title: Texans
Post by: texasmom on March 04, 2008, 10:02:51 AM
I'm not patient enough to wait in line. Had to do early voting.
Title: Texans
Post by: CptTrips on March 04, 2008, 10:13:12 AM
All Republicans should go and vote for Hillary.  They are allowed to vote in the Dems primary.  If she win's Texas, she'll fight Obama to the death for it.  We could have months more of enjoyable Democratic fratricide and blood-letting.

 :D ,
Wab
Title: Texans
Post by: Airscrew on March 04, 2008, 10:27:50 AM
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Originally posted by AKWabbit
All Republicans should go and vote for Hillary.  They are allowed to vote in the Dems primary.  If she win's Texas, she'll fight Obama to the death for it.  We could have months more of enjoyable Democratic fratricide and blood-letting.

 :D ,
Wab

that originally was my plan a few days ago.  That changed when I realized that the candidate I wanted for County Sheriff was a republican, and You can only vote either Democratic primary or Republican primary,  
one vote for Ron Paul, and one vote for Terry Pickering, Bastrop County Sheriff to replace our incarcerated, corrupted sheriff...
Title: Texans
Post by: Jackal1 on March 04, 2008, 01:45:16 PM
I was pretty pleased with what I saw this morning at the local polls.
One side of the room was deserted, the other was full. :)
I guess folks around here are not into hope and change........or smoke and mirrors. :rofl
Title: Texans
Post by: rpm on March 04, 2008, 02:22:14 PM
You must live in a gerrymandered district. Both sides were busy at my polling place.
Title: Texans
Post by: Yknurd on March 04, 2008, 02:28:16 PM
I'm voting for Obama 'cause I want change!
Title: Texans
Post by: john9001 on March 04, 2008, 02:31:34 PM
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Originally posted by rpm
You must live in a gerrymandered district. Both sides were busy at my polling place.


all districts are gerrymandered, thats how you get a 98% re-election rate.
Title: Texans
Post by: Airscrew on March 04, 2008, 03:32:59 PM
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Originally posted by rpm
You must live in a gerrymandered district. Both sides were busy at my polling place.

first,  thanks RPM, probably the first time in awhile i had to go lookup a word... I have heard it before but I guess I must have forgotten it..

for those that may not know...
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Word History: "An official statement of the returns of voters for senators give twenty nine friends of peace, and eleven gerrymanders." So reported the May 12, 1813, edition of the Massachusetts Spy. A gerrymander sounds like a strange political beast, which it is, considered from a historical perspective. This beast was named by combining the word salamander, "a small lizardlike amphibian," with the last name of Elbridge Gerry, a former governor of Massachusetts—a state noted for its varied, often colorful political fauna. Gerry (whose name, incidentally, was pronounced with a hard g, though gerrymander is now commonly pronounced with a soft g) was immortalized in this word because an election district created by members of his party in 1812 looked like a salamander. According to one version of gerrymander's coining, the shape of the district attracted the eye of the painter Gilbert Stuart, who noticed it on a map in a newspaper editor's office. Stuart decorated the outline of the district with a head, wings, and claws and then said to the editor, "That will do for a salamander!" "Gerrymander!" came the reply. The word is first recorded in April 1812 in reference to the creature or its caricature, but it soon came to mean not only "the action of shaping a district to gain political advantage" but also "any representative elected from such a district by that method." Within the same year gerrymander was also recorded as a verb.


And yes, In Bastrop county, things looked pretty equal at both tables, but I didnt hang out very long either...  I am going back tonight at 7 for the caucas... I'm hoping for a knock down drag out on the Dems side of the fire station...  :lol
Title: Texans
Post by: Maverick on March 04, 2008, 03:48:10 PM
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Originally posted by Yknurd
I'm voting for Obama 'cause I want change!


Make yourself a cardboard sign and sit on a street corner and you'll get more valuable and viable change.
Title: Texans
Post by: Airscrew on March 04, 2008, 03:56:34 PM
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Originally posted by Maverick
Make yourself a cardboard sign and sit on a street corner and you'll get more valuable and viable change.

:lol   he should get a dog too,  people like animals...
Title: Texans
Post by: AWMac on March 04, 2008, 04:07:10 PM
Thank GOD Oklahoma has the Red River.

Votin twice? Are ya'll Communists?

Last time I seen a Texan doing the two step he was running away from the Southern banks of the Red River.  I shoulda aimed higher and to the right...

:D

Mac
Title: Texans
Post by: Airscrew on March 04, 2008, 04:10:37 PM
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Originally posted by AWMac
Thank GOD Oklahoma has the Red River.

Votin twice? Are ya'll Communists?

Last time I seen a Texan doing the two step he was running away from the Southern banks of the Red River.  I shoulda aimed higher and to the right...

:D

Mac

Next time let someone hold your beer... :cool:
Title: Texans
Post by: DiabloTX on March 04, 2008, 04:15:00 PM
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Originally posted by AWMac
Thank GOD Oklahoma has the Red River.

Votin twice? Are ya'll Communists?

Last time I seen a Texan doing the two step he was running away from the Southern banks of the Red River.  I shoulda aimed higher and to the right...

:D

Mac


There's a reason why Oklahoma gets 3x's as many tornados as Texas; he's trying to erase his biggest mistake!  

:aok
Title: Texans
Post by: Holden McGroin on March 04, 2008, 05:25:29 PM
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Originally posted by john9001
all districts are gerrymandered, thats how you get a 98% re-election rate.


And THAT 98% [/b] is the biggest political thing stifling change.

You want change?  Vote against the incumbant, whoever they are, and whatever party they may belong to.
Title: Texans
Post by: Jackal1 on March 04, 2008, 06:19:31 PM
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Originally posted by Airscrew
I am going back tonight at 7 for the caucas... I'm hoping for a knock down drag out on the Dems side of the fire station...  :lol


:rofl

Get video.
Title: Texans
Post by: Airscrew on March 04, 2008, 06:24:51 PM
On my way to the fire station.  Had to come home and drag my daughter out of the house and take her to vote.
Title: Texans
Post by: Airscrew on March 04, 2008, 09:57:03 PM
Well, I gotta say, the night ended differently that I thought it would.   I went only to observe and ended up volunteering and selected to be a Republican Delegate for my precinct and will go to the County Republican convention at the end of March.

Sorry Jackal, no fist fights... it took about an hour and a half to vote on our resolutions for the county convention.  We started at 730 and finished about 900.  But when we finished our Republican caucus/primary the Democrats were still standing in line to pick their delegates... :lol

As I left I asked them if they were still waiting on picking delegates,  a couple said yea,  I said "You guys should have been Republicans, you'd be done and goin home now..."  :lol  some of them were clearly not amused... them dang democrats,... no sense of humor... must have been at least 75 of them still waiting in line.... :lol
Title: Re: Texans
Post by: Maverick on March 06, 2008, 09:05:55 AM
WTG Airscrew, now you're a part of the "system" and will be repressing the masses.

;p
Title: Re: Texans
Post by: Jackal1 on March 06, 2008, 01:25:54 PM


Sorry Jackal, no fist fights..


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