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[dietzy]

Well it is crunch time...

Have you decided yet?

Nervous about the outcomes?

Excited about tomorrow?

Planning to vote in the morning or evening?

Planning to watch the returns all night?

Result predictions?

[wordsmith]

-Yes
-Resigned to the fact that there's no telling who's going to win
-Yes, which was a really hard point to get to after the last debacle
-morning
-Yes
-I'm hopeful, but never toooo hopeful, for my guy.

[Irish79]

Oregon is strictly mail in ballots, so I voted over a week ago. Looking forward to seeing the results, and REALLY looking forward to no more political ads on TV! Oh, and no more phone calls day and night asking you to vote for this or that. I hope my guy wins, but am preparing to live with the results.

[pisces2473]

Yes.
A bit. It's going to be interesting.
Actually, kind of. I'm going to enjoy the suspense.
Probably morning on the way to work.
Maybe a little bit, probably in between shows.
Bush. Not hoping he wins, but I'll deal.

[cheshrcarol]

Have you decided yet?
YES!
Nervous about the outcomes?
Yes
Excited about tomorrow?
Yes
Planning to vote in the morning or evening?
I'm thinking I'll go in the morning so I can wear my sticker all day because I'm a dork like that.
Planning to watch the returns all night?
Definitely. Who could sleep wondering what happened?
Result predictions?
I'm feeling a lot better about Kerry today. Anyone see www.electoral-vote.com today? Check out all the blue! They've got Kerry at 298 electoral votes! And I know some people will say they're biased, but it's been showing Bush in the lead for days. And lots of the states that had been swing states show a much larger margin for Kerry than they had before. Woo Hoo!!

[pisces2473]

Originally posted by cheshrcarol

Planning to vote in the morning or evening?
I'm thinking I'll go in the morning so I can wear my sticker all day because I'm a dork like that.

I do that too. Hee.

[dietzy]

I can't wait to see the spin and the way the press reports this election as well. And their response to a Bush win. They have thus far shown to be very entertaining, liberal leaning, and blatantly biased.

[dazed]

it's gonna be CRAZEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!! :googly:

i predict that we won't know who won for another couple of weeks at least, since i think it'll go to the courts again unfortunately. is rehnquist still there??? damn i hope all the cancer drugs affect how he judges.

[dietzy]

He was not there today

[libscigrl]

Decide: Yes
Nervous: Maybe
Excited: Yes
Voting: In the morning and then volunteering
Watching returns: Yes--Although I don't expect the results to be conclusive for days or weeks
Predictions: I can only hope for Kerry. Bush is bad for the environment, safety, freedom of speech, freedom of privacy, reproductive freedom, freedom of religion, services for anyone who is poor or struggling financially, people with any kind of illness, education, foreign relations, and progress. Sorry for the tangent. Edit: Oh, and he's bad for libraries.

[dietzy]

reproductive freedom

Now that is the first time I heard it worded that way. I guess this is the new PC term for killing babies. Nice.

[libscigrl]

The emphasis is not on abortion, but on freedom--to make that and other reproductive choices related to contraception and based on access to complete & accurate sex ed. The idea is not to promote killing but to promote the prevention of unwanted pregnancies in the first place, and allow women to make that very difficult decision when unwanted pregnancies do occur--without the interference of people who may be well intentioned but apparently determined on imposing their religious beliefs onto others. You see abortion as killing and I imagine that assessment is very much based on your religious convictions. However, I and many others do not share your religious beliefs and have made a different assessment--of when life begins, what kind of life many unwanted children are likely to have, the extent to which one has any right interfering in the reproductive decisions of other individuals, of the extent to which I see overpopulation, poverty, and the lack of opportunities for women who lack the resources to prevent pregnancies, as pressing problems. People who are pro-choice are NOT pro-abortion. There is a BIG BIG difference.

[pisces2473]

Originally posted by libscigrl
People who are pro-choice are NOT pro-abortion. There is a BIG BIG difference.
Thank you!!! I am pro-choice, but I don't think I could ever have an abortion. However, I have no say in what others should do. I believe in reproductive rights, which really means choosing to have children or not and when you'd have those children.

What's the statistic with teenagers--something like the abortion/pregnancy rates dropped when the teens were given condoms, instead of being taught abstinence? I don't necessarily agree with 14 year olds having sex, but I REALLY don't think a 14 year old should be a mother.

[libscigrl]

You're welcome :) Unfortunately, it looks like thanks to the abstinence-only Bush agenda, more unwanted pregnancies will be occuring, with less options for coping with them. Part of me thinks that people who are pro-life should have to adopt at least one (if not more) unwanted kids that have been put up for adoption. Half-grown, system-traumatized, disabled, unwanted kids that their mothers brought to term and either gave up for adoption or had their kids taken away. You want them brought into this world? Make sure they have loving homes. But then those kids too, would get brainwashed by the Christian right wing into earth-polluting, population overgrowing, dogmatic people. I am so sick over the election results. Well, I guess we get what we deserve for not mobilizing our party earlier and more fiercely, and for trying to be fair and not resort to campaign tactics meant to further divide the nation. Either we'll learn, or we'll end up living in a Christian nation where the agenda of one religion has more sway than the very principles surrounded by freedom that this country was founded upon.

[pisces2473]

Originally posted by libscigrl
Unfortunately, it looks like thanks to the abstinence-only Bush agenda, more unwanted pregnancies will be occuring, with less options for coping with them.
Okay, so if Barb or Jenna get pregnant, they'll have to have the baby too? Ohhh wait, they don't have sex! And neither did Dubya when HE was a youngin'!!!

Part of me thinks that people who are pro-life should have to adopt at least one (if not more) unwanted kids that have been put up for adoption. Half-grown, system-traumatized, disabled, unwanted kids that their mothers brought to term and either gave up for adoption or had their kids taken away.
You want them brought into this world? Make sure they have loving homes. But then those kids too, would get brainwashed by the Christian right wing into earth-polluting, population overgrowing, dogmatic people.
Intersting concept...but you know, those kids would get stuck with someone like Carrie's mother who would call them sinners and beat them for having sinful biological parents. And then, loving homosexual couples who want a child will be denied. So will unmarried heterosexual couples.