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[Thad]

Dixville Notch votes Democratic for the first time in forty years.  We're off to a good start.

[Detonator]

Teehee, Dixville Notch.

[Arc]

Hart's Location, the 'other' early voting attention whore:

Barack Obama: 17  
John McCain: 10  
Ron Paul: 2 (write-in)





If I read of one excuse here of not voting today, I will fuck you to hell.
Good luck!

[Detonator]

Settin' my alarm extra early.

I know you stayed up all night for your Wii!  This is more important!

[Niku]

I know you stayed up all night for your Wii!  This is more important!

M .. more important than Wii?

[Brentai]

Yes.

[Detonator]

I split this off because I felt like it this day deserves its own thread.

Real time analysis by the Worst News Crew.

  FIGHT! For the people!
  FIGHT! For justice!
  FIGHT! For the innocent!
  FIGHT! For what all true warriors strive for!

[Brentai]

8-ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME-SEX COUPLES TO MARRY.

Okay, guys.  I respect your differing views on homosexuality, but I swear to your virtuous God, if you seriously vote in any proposition that actually, right there on the ballot, begins with "ELIMINATES RIGHT" in big capital letters, then I am going to burn a hole clean through your mind with my searing eye of hatred.

[Rosencrantz]

What kills me are all the pro-8 people who claim that voting yes on 8 will keep the government out of our lives and blah blah blah. 

[Brentai]

Yes, because of the "Prop 8 has something, anything to do with what is taught in schools" ads.  Which nobody was properly ground into a thick oil and used as lubricant in Governer Schwarzeneggar's BodyMax for.

[Royal☭]

I heard some crazy lady on NPR talking about how she was voting yes on Prop 8 because she was just trying to protect her rights.  That's all she was doing, making sure she defended her rights.

[Classic]

 
 

Whatever. Fukit.
I got a little "I Voted" sticker and Now I'm gonna get a little starbuxx coffee.

My normal drive to fix (i.e. meddle with) people who are broken isn't going to fuck up my day.

[Doom]

I voted for Mister Obama! I believe in change and he's so damn handsome! 

I also voted against Maryland's Proposition 2(to use Slot Machines to fund Education). If you're wondering, I'd rather just be a man and pay higher taxes than give any excuses to spread Baltimore's "atmosphere".

[Doom]

I've only been on the internet for eight minutes and I swear to God I'll disembowl the next person to post a "LAWL MCCAIN ALREADY WON" chart or poll or graph or map or whatever.

[SCD]

[Thad]

I heard some crazy lady on NPR talking about how she was voting yes on Prop 8 because she was just trying to protect her rights.  That's all she was doing, making sure she defended her rights.

Yeah, that's the religious right's spin on this.  It's religious intolerance; THEY'RE the ones being discriminated against.  Orwell would be proud.

I got a little "I Voted" sticker and Now I'm gonna get a little starbuxx coffee.

I can't find my "I Voted Early" sticker (you'd think there would be ONE here since there were THREE early ballots in the damn house), so no free coffee for me.  Nor any 20% off at Atomic Comics, which is probably for the best because I have no money and spend too damn much on comics anyway.  (If it were my local comic shop, I'm sure I wouldn't need a sticker, they'd take me at my word.  Maybe Atomic would too!  But I don't want to drive to Mesa to find out.)

I also voted against Maryland's Proposition 2(to use Slot Machines to fund Education). If you're wondering, I'd rather just be a man and pay higher taxes than give any excuses to spread Baltimore's "atmosphere".

The way I see it, people are going to gamble anyway and you may as well use that money for SOMETHING.

Of course, there ARE the addiction and crime issues to worry about, but unless a "no" vote was to ban casinos entirely, they're not going to go away.

[Mongrel]

unless a "no" vote was to ban casinos entirely, they're not going to go away.

Of course, even then they wouldn't.

In principle, I agree with your point above, but I also believe that, regardless of "potential revenue", there are some things the government should not directly encourage. In the same sense, I usually think drugs and prostitution should be legalized, but I don't think the government should be an actual provider (tax the shit out of it, yeah, that I can be on board for).

It's a fine distinction, I know (one step away from pure sematics, really), but the optics are important.

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I could also raise the "excessive gambling costs society more money indirectly than it directly feeds into government coffers" argument, but I don't have enough source material to make strong points without looking up a ton of stuff. AND I'M LAZY.

[JDigital]

If education funding is tied to gambling, it can be stymied in the guise of anti-gambling bills, or the bill can be used as an excuse to cut real funding to schools. It can also encourage gambling, or make it look like the state is for funding better education while actually weighing it down with a moral issue.

It's like one of those movies where the good guy has to escape while handcuffed to the bad guy.

[Thad]

In principle, I agree with your point above, but I also believe that, regardless of "potential revenue", there are some things the government should not directly encourage. In the same sense, I usually think drugs and prostitution should be legalized, but I don't think the government should be an actual provider (tax the shit out of it, yeah, that I can be on board for).

I don't think funding schools with tobacco money encourages people to smoke.

I could also raise the "excessive gambling costs society more money indirectly than it directly feeds into government coffers" argument, but I don't have enough source material to make strong points without looking up a ton of stuff. AND I'M LAZY.

Sure, but again, the alternative is to ban gambling.

If education funding is tied to gambling, it can be stymied in the guise of anti-gambling bills, or the bill can be used as an excuse to cut real funding to schools. It can also encourage gambling, or make it look like the state is for funding better education while actually weighing it down with a moral issue.

It's like one of those movies where the good guy has to escape while handcuffed to the bad guy.

Sure, but where else is the money coming from?  The way I see it, beggars can't be choosers; when schools are adequately funded, THEN we can start picking and choosing where those tax dollars come from.

Of course, bear in mind that I'm only talking about taxes here.  Let's not try to slippery-slope it into "big tobacco gives schools a lot of money in exchange for advertising" or anything like that.

[Thad]

The earliest states are closed.  So far only Kentucky and NH Vermont have been called, with predictable results; you guys are welcome to get into exit polls if you want to but I'm not going to bother; the real numbers will be in soon enough and we've waited this long already; no sense going with flawed approximations.