Did you vote?

[irixith]

Well...we have moderators for a reason, and surely one of them will see fit to stop the madness.

[Sload Soap]

I voted in the TR polls so I clicked yes. That's what this is about, right?

[CFFJR]

Despite the bait, I will respond seriously and say yes, I did indeed vote.

Not everything went the way I had hoped. But, the one issue I was really concerned about failed miserably, and I am very pleased about that.

[Luke]

No one seems to understand jvalentine's genius. If you clicked on "no" you are a filthy filthy liar as you did indeed just vote. Joke is on you.

[dsheinem]

The electorate are a fickle, foolish lot.

The same is true when Dems win, of course...

[AppleQueso]

*farts*

[Opa Opa]

*farts*

Careful, that's considered a "Yes" vote in some counties.

[Luke]

Kind of not related:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the ... 45764.html

Leadership takes balls. Mike has tons of 'em.

I still think Colin Powell would perhaps be the best President America has ever had.

http://mic.com/articles/65663/colin-pow ... ure-leader

Why isn't he President, and why doesn't he run for office? I believe he was quoted as saying "I've never had any political leniency. It isn't my obligation, and I will make my own decisions and not have others force decisions upon me." Or something very, very close to that. In short, he said "I don't care if people agree with me, and to be President, you have to have people agree with you". He's not down for that, as he is a true leader and sticks to his guns. He's exactly what we need but won't get.

[dsheinem]

Kind of not related:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaab-the ... 45764.html

Leadership takes balls. Mike has tons of 'em.

Coach K continues to prove the only thing he understands in life is basketball.

Powell would have probably been an interesting president, but my take is that he's not a good enough politician to play all the campaign games and jump through all the hoops he needs to in order to get elected. When he had his best chance the stink of the Bush admin and his role in the WMD UN debacle was still all over him, and then the window closed.

I will say I am excited about the prospect of Republican primaries starting up in the next six months or so. The thought of Chris Christie, Rick Perry, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, and ...hope against hope...Herman Cain, Michelle Bachman, Rick Santorum and Donald Trump all shouting crazy talk at one another on stage at the same time for a few hours every month or so gives me warm fuzzy feelings. It has helped me cope with the sad results from yesterday.

On the bright side, my state ousted our idiot Republican governor, all states that had pot-legalization measures on the ballot passed them, and all states that had minimum wage increase initiates on their ballots passed those too. Too bad the Democrats and the President are so shitty at connecting their record and their party platform to the stated interests of so many voters...

[Flake]

Republicans won. I guess not everyone wants to live on food stamps and handouts forever. Some people actually want to work. I think it's overall good the republicans won.

Okay, first of all stop with the lame attempts to start arguments. I think I speak for the whole mod team when I say that we are tired of you starting crap with other board members. You want to post on this board, knock off the vitriol, baiting, and negativity. Please don't mistake this for a suggestion.

Secondly, and I think this bothers me even more than your transparent attempt to start conflict over this topic, you are wrong. Food stamps, disability payments, and other aspects of the social safety net that fall under the catchall 'welfare' are distributed disproportionately across Southern states states that, as we all saw last night, will vote Republican even when it is not at all in their best interest. This is not exactly hard to find information. You live in Alabama - ever been to any rural counties and wonder how it is people manage to live out there with nearly no work to speak of? Ever see a "Vote Democrat" sign out in that area?

What happened last night was the GOP finally figuring out after 6 years of getting stomped that the key to winning mid-term elections is not to appeal to the base: GOP die hards who are (usually irrationally) terrified of anything happening to their guns, benefits, or Bibles will come out and vote no matter what - you could set the polling station on fire and these guys would still get their ballots filled out. What the GOP needed to do was shut up about anything and everything that could terrify Democrats and Independents into voting in a non-Presidential election.

And they succeeded, brilliantly. In the last two months the GOP managed to strangle the Tea Party in any contested states (probably a win for all concerned) and went entirely mum on the subjects of the ACA, border control, taxes, reproductive rights - anything that can incite moderates and liberals to go to the polls. It was an amazing gameplan and it paid off.