i feel like such a bad citizen of my community

10/6/2009 1:05:59 PM

I forgot to register when I moved back to Raleigh in July

10/6/2009 1:07:41 PM

this is the first election i haven't voted in since 2003

10/6/2009 1:08:41 PM

it's my first since 2004

10/6/2009 1:09:50 PM

i voted!

10/6/2009 1:23:58 PM

i don't know enough about the candidates to vote. anyone want to inform me?

10/6/2009 1:26:36 PM

Your votes don't really count anyways.

10/6/2009 1:41:38 PM

stop women's sufferage

10/6/2009 1:42:43 PM

10/6/2009 1:44:28 PM

http://www.thewolfweb.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=570446

10/6/2009 1:44:55 PM

if you dont vote,


the terrorists win.

10/6/2009 1:54:56 PM

if you dont vote,

the socialists win

10/6/2009 2:04:37 PM

whats the difference?

10/6/2009 2:05:01 PM

if you dont socialize,

the voters win

10/6/2009 2:08:49 PM

we don't vote until november 3rd in VA... but today is the last day to register before the general election!

10/6/2009 2:11:41 PM

i'm going to vote then too!

10/6/2009 2:12:32 PM

if you dont win,

the socialists vote

10/6/2009 2:15:24 PM

in soivet russia, the polls vote at you

10/6/2009 2:16:32 PM

Obviously you are not the only one. I just voted at 2:15 PM. I was the 50th voter of the day.

Fuck America.

We want to go around the world forcing in democracy, but no one here can be bothered enough to vote apparently.

10/6/2009 2:23:48 PM

I exercise my right not to vote.

10/6/2009 2:28:30 PM

^oh no you didn't!!1

10/6/2009 2:29:31 PM

God Bless America.

10/6/2009 2:30:07 PM

BREAKING:

Kanye West Has Never Voted!

10/6/2009 2:31:56 PM

Im real happy for you and ima let you finish but communism was one of the best political schemes of all time

10/6/2009 2:33:27 PM

Here is Lee Sartain's NBC interview video:

He talks mostly about economic development & transit. Transitioning effectively from a small/medium sized city into the larger city we are growing to be. Public transit. Expanding bus access with increased frequency & more benches & shelters, & light rail. Support new & small businesses, especially downtown. Have job development targeted towards creating jobs that match the kind of skills our universities are putting out, specifically he mentioned engineers & textile folks. And he went to NCSU.


http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A401756
Here are the Indy Endorsements:

Quote :

"Wake Board of Education District 1: Rita Rakestraw District 2: Horace J. Tart District 7: Karen Denise Simon District 9: Lois A. Nixon Raleigh City Council Mayor: Charles C. Meeker At-large (two seats open): Russell G. Stephenson The Indy did not endorse for the second seat. District B: John Rodger Koopman District C: No endorsement District D: Thomas G. Crowder District E: Bonner Garner Gaylord Cary Town Council District A: Lori Bush District C: Jack W. Smith"

Here is a tool to find your election day polling place:

http://www.ncsbe.gov/VoterLookup.aspx?Feature=voterinfo

10/6/2009 2:34:37 PM

Why don't we just make the richest dude in America king. He can stay king until he dies or someone else becomes more rich. That way we don't have to keep voting every year.

10/6/2009 2:35:52 PM

that guy looks really familiar. i must have run across him while i was doing college dems stuff

10/6/2009 2:36:24 PM

If voting could change anything


it would be illegal, of course

10/6/2009 2:36:25 PM

yeah like weed.


amirite?

10/6/2009 2:40:48 PM

^^not necessarily so on the municipal level. In Winston in the past month or two a college student beat a 16 year incumbent solely on the force of student voter turnout.

10/6/2009 2:45:40 PM

You are so full of shit, supplanter. Are you trolling?

10/6/2009 2:46:34 PM

haha, troll the troll.

pay the troll toll

10/6/2009 2:47:29 PM

I didn't even know there was a vote today. I didn't see any rappers telling me who to vote for. I feel like the entertainment industry has failed us all.

10/6/2009 2:49:25 PM

Quote :

"Wednesday, September 16, 2009 A remarkable story in Winston-Salem Yesterday a senior at Winston-Salem State, Derwin Montgomery, more or less won a seat on the City Council by defeating four term incumbent Joycelyn Johnson 57-24 in the Democratic primary. He did it by taking full advantage of same day registration and one stop voting. Yes Weekly reports that 213 of his classmates registered and voted at the same time and overall Montgomery estimates that more than 400 WSSU students voted. The results speak for themselves. Montgomery actually trailed Johnson 194-90 in votes cast on election day. But he had already banked a 440-28 lead in early voting that proved to be quite insurmountable."

-Public Policy Polling

The results were 530 to 228. So the more than 400 Students voting did make the difference.

10/6/2009 2:55:35 PM

non-trolled

10/6/2009 2:58:56 PM

^^ and did the guy they voted for accomplish anything for those that voted for him?

(thats a real question, If he did it would mean I could finally stop being cynical toward voting and politics . . . . . well, maybe)




the students votes made a difference, they were 400/700 of the total decision, the students' voice was heard through voting.


but each individual was just 1/700th of the final decision, thats not really having your voice heard, IMO

as a group they made a difference, but taken as individual votes they made little difference in the outcome

[Edited on October 6, 2009 at 3:14 PM. Reason : im not even sure this is making sense right now]

10/6/2009 3:11:42 PM

10/6/2009 3:46:21 PM

that is an awesome picture

10/6/2009 3:47:21 PM

oooooh titties

10/6/2009 3:48:56 PM