OK Go wants you to vote this Tuesday 11/7

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beardnut7

awesome.
and yes, i am registered to vote.

woodmaid8

OK, I feel really stupid, but isn't this just the midterm election? I mean, it doesn't actually do anything, right? What does it all mean??????

okraparrot5

wait, is this like real voting, like for presidents and governors and stuff?

Tempe Arizona

it's a vote for state govenors, but it's also a vote for senators and members in the house of representatives

woodmaid8

I know it's midterm elections, but I have no idea what that means. Please, someone who pays attention to the world around them, tell me what's going on!

Tempe Arizona

In a presidential election year only half of the senators are up for election. During a midterm election year, the other half of the sentators are up for election.

beardnut7

yeah congressional elections...and plus, a lot of important local issues come up.

jedi_grrlie

Yeah, it seems like nobody pays a lot of attention to the mid-term elections, 'cause they're not presidential, but when you consider that HALF of the Senate and A THIRD of the House are up for election, PLUS a lot of state governors (goooooooooo Patrick Deval for MA!), it's actually pretty big. You can have a Republican president, but if a Democratic majority gets voted into both houses of Congress, that pretty much makes it difficult for him to get stuff passed. Or, you know, vice versa.


I'm one to talk, I've completely forgotten to request an absentee ballot. Oh, well.

Also, can I express how much I love Damian (and Andy now, too) for being like, "There's a lot of losers in office! GO VOTE!"

Now I feel like I've failed him.


EDIT: "I'm gonna' vote.
"I'm gonna' vote."
*silence*
"HA!"

Amazing.

Morrigan

too bad I'm not allowed to vote in the US .

jorge

In a lot of ways it's just as important as a presidential election, particularly in a year like this, with a lame duck president who can't be relected, which means that the presidency is up for grabs in that there won't be an incumbent running. So the midterm elections can help give momentum to one party or the other and set up candidates for a presidential run. That's one way they matter. But they're far more important in that they elect a large part of the Congress, which is particularly meaningful now (and for the next fifteen or twenty years or so) that both houses are so closely divided.

One reason that it feels like voting doesn't matter is that the Republicans have worked to make sure it doesn't (a trick perfected by the Democrats before them) through a process called gerrymandering, in which house districts are redrawn to protect the party that's currently in office so that it's almost impossible for you to lose once you've been elected. In years without much contention nothing ever changes, but this year there are a few pretty big issues in play, which means there's a possibility of a major power shift from the Republicans to the Democrats. And if that doesn't happen it'll be just as notable, because it will mean the Republicans have withstood their biggest challenge since they took Congress in the early 90s. And it means they'll have an OK chance of being the party in power, at least in the legislature, for at least a generation.


*Of course, you should know that there's a lot of assumptions in that paragraph and that lots of people would disagree with it. And also that no matter who you're voting for, he's quite probably a total bastard anyway.

chin3beggar

Of course they're quite probably a total bastard, that's all politicking is, legalized whoring* and bastardization of the government.

*Also available in Las Vegas

Which is why I nominate Mr. Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore to take over! Who's with me?!

QueenofthePosers

QUOTE (e 5170a @ Nov 6 2006, 03:23 AM)

and plus, a lot of important local issues come up.

Like in Virginia, the issue of an amendment to the state constitution outlawing gay marriage is being voted on (sometimes I hate my state...)

Everyone vote!! How could you not with such cute guys telling you to? I voted absentee last week. woo! My first election (since I fucked up last year and got my absentee ballot after the election haha)!

IPVA

QUOTE (Mr. Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore @ Nov 7 2006, 01:05 AM)

In a lot of ways it's just as important as a presidential election, particularly in a year like this, with a lame duck president who can't be relected, which means that the presidency is up for grabs in that there won't be an incumbent running. So the midterm elections can help give momentum to one party or the other and set up candidates for a presidential run. That's one way they matter. But they're far more important in that they elect a large part of the Congress, which is particularly meaningful now (and for the next fifteen or twenty years or so) that both houses are so closely divided.

One reason that it feels like voting doesn't matter is that the Republicans have worked to make sure it doesn't (a trick perfected by the Democrats before them) through a process called gerrymandering, in which house districts are redrawn to protect the party that's currently in office so that it's almost impossible for you to lose once you've been elected. In years without much contention nothing ever changes, but this year there are a few pretty big issues in play, which means there's a possibility of a major power shift from the Republicans to the Democrats. And if that doesn't happen it'll be just as notable, because it will mean the Republicans have withstood their biggest challenge since they took Congress in the early 90s. And it means they'll have an OK chance of being the party in power, at least in the legislature, for at least a generation.
*Of course, you should know that there's a lot of assumptions in that paragraph and that lots of people would disagree with it. And also that no matter who you're voting for, he's quite probably a total bastard anyway.

Way to go, Mr. Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore.

Unknown

QUOTE (Mr. Mr. Mr. Jorge, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore, Whom I Adore @ Nov 7 2006, 05:05 AM)

In a lot of ways it's just as important as a presidential election, particularly in a year like this, with a lame duck president who can't be relected, which means that the presidency is up for grabs in that there won't be an incumbent running. So the midterm elections can help give momentum to one party or the other and set up candidates for a presidential run. That's one way they matter. But they're far more important in that they elect a large part of the Congress, which is particularly meaningful now (and for the next fifteen or twenty years or so) that both houses are so closely divided.

One reason that it feels like voting doesn't matter is that the Republicans have worked to make sure it doesn't (a trick perfected by the Democrats before them) through a process called gerrymandering, in which house districts are redrawn to protect the party that's currently in office so that it's almost impossible for you to lose once you've been elected. In years without much contention nothing ever changes, but this year there are a few pretty big issues in play, which means there's a possibility of a major power shift from the Republicans to the Democrats. And if that doesn't happen it'll be just as notable, because it will mean the Republicans have withstood their biggest challenge since they took Congress in the early 90s. And it means they'll have an OK chance of being the party in power, at least in the legislature, for at least a generation.
*Of course, you should know that there's a lot of assumptions in that paragraph and that lots of people would disagree with it. And also that no matter who you're voting for, he's quite probably a total bastard anyway.

this is possibly the smartest post of the year/ever on the boards, its getting its fair amount of tv coverage over here in england'land..and i didnt really know what was going on untill this post



i feel much smarter



and to quote south park:

"Let's get out and vote!
Let's make our voices heard!
We've been given the right to choose
Between a douche and a turd
It's democracy in action,
Put your freedom to the test,
A big fat turd or a stupid douche,
Which do you like best?"

chin3beggar

QUOTE (Head Full of Crazy @ Nov 7 2006, 12:56 PM)

this is possibly the smartest post of the year/ever on the boards, its getting its fair amount of tv coverage over here in england'land..and i didnt really know what was going on untill this post
i feel much smarter
and to quote south park:

"Let's get out and vote!
Let's make our voices heard!
We've been given the right to choose
Between a douche and a turd
It's democracy in action,
Put your freedom to the test,
A big fat turd or a stupid douche,
Which do you like best?"

Hooray for South Park quotes!

You forgot to point out that Puff Daddy will kill you if you don't vote.

QueenofthePosers

umm.....yayayayayayay!! (I can't wait for my state to get it's act in gear and finally declare the Democrat as the winner...)