Well, we did it! We voted early today. We went to Cherryvale and met our friends, Tony and Gay, for lunch and afterward we stopped off at Independence at the courthouse and voted early. And we both voted for Obama. We don't believe there will be any surprises that would have induced us to change our vote anyhow. Scott, our son, and Jerod, our grandson, will be here over the weekend for awhile and we were going to be very busy and did not know how long the lines were going to be at the polls.
John McCain is very angry and is making a big deal about Obama backing out of public financing.
Here's "the rest of the story":
The hoopla over campaign financing is very frustrating because Obama knew the thing that killed Kerry in 2004 was the "527 groups," who pumped huge dollars running Swift Boat ads, bypassing financing laws. Obama's position was that he would take public financing IF McCain would reel them in. McCain refused. Of course, we never hear that in 'the rest of the story". McCain didn't want to do that.
Unfortunately for McCain, T. Boone Pickens and other 527 funders lost a lot of money on Wall Street this year ($2 billion for Pickens), plus they don't particularly care for McCain, so this money never materialized for McCain. They were smart enough to know not to back a loser. So McCain is furious with Obama for having that kind of foresight.
When we voted, we voted against any incumbent. That's our personal protest against the mess we are all in now.
Afterward we came on home and met the appliance repairman who repaired our range. It had a short in the switch. The range was bought in 1993 and after fifteen years, this is the first repair. Not bad for an appliance that's used every day.
Bob is gone to a Red Cross meeting tonight but will be back in about an hour or so.
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Good for you! Oregon votes only by mail. You don't have a choice. There are no polling places to go to. We love it.
I have my electoral map copied and a list of the senate races along with a red and blue pencil. I'm ready for the duration. The last two elections have been such bad experiences that I'm looking forward to enjoying this one.
I don't know that I can ever respect John McCain again. He should be so embarrassed.
I wish we could vote early or by mail. Guess I will be standing in line on Tuesday with everyone else in Kentucky. I, too, am voting for the new guys this year. I really hope Mitch McConnell gets beat but it will be a close race. Have a good weekend.
That's very interesting about the 527s and T Boon whatever. I didn't know that they lost a lot of money and don't want to back a loser. I love seeing the Republicans "cannibalize" one of their own!!! Serves them right for the nasty lies of 2004.
Kerry ran a pathetic campaign. He fit the conservative's stereotype they have about liberals.
Another reason to believe that Obama will win...he's an Alpha male and Beta males never win (McCain, Kerry, and Gore were Beta Males). In 1988, both Bush Sr. and Dukakis were Beta Males, but Bush basically won a third term and Dukakis looked awful in the tank, plus with Willie Horton, it was over for him.
T Boone Pickens was interviewed on Sixty Minutes this past week and he admitted there to losing 2B in the stock market.
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