Roll Call: Who is voting early? Who is waiting til Nov. 5 (and why?)

I don't like to vote on election day for three reasons.
1. If something goes wrong, you just have to sit and wait until it is fixed.
2. In NC, I can vote, in person, at any early voting site site in the county. So on the day my wife and I voted we decided to have an early supper at place near South Park. We drove past three voting sites that had lines out the door, until we're got to the Rexford Road site that had no lines. We were in/our in under 10 minutes and off to supper.
3. I'm an election monitor volunteer and the Dems usually want me working all day on election day.
 
CFordUNC said:
Oh yeah, I hear you. To be clear, I am absolutely, positively, unequivocally in no way shape or form going to consider voting for a single solitary Republican politician moving forward who was ever part of this MAGA fuckery, either directly or through their cowardice. That includes low rent losers like Nikki Haley. I’ll halfway consider a vote for a Republican again whenever the Republican Party can demonstrate that it is not… anything remotely resembling what it currently is. And I certainly will not hold my breath to get to that point.
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I agree.

I look forward to the day that I can choose between a reasonable Republican and a reasonable Democrat. That’s impossible in North Carolina (or the former Confederacy) today.

I first voted in 1980.

Ronald Reagan launched his 1980 Presidential Campaign at the Neshoba County Fair near Philadelphia, Mississippi. He spoke about and in favor of “states’ rights.”

Neshoba County and Philadelphia, Mississippi is where James Chaney (a young black man and supporter of civil and voting rights), Andrew Goodman (a Jewish supporter of civil and voting rights), and Michael Schwerner (a Jewish supporter of civil and voting rights) were murdered by local law enforcement with support from the Klan.

“States’ Rights” was a dog whistle.

As the highly skilled Republican political consultant, Lee Atwater (he successfully managed Presidential campaigns and he was great at it), said on his death bed…….”We could no longer say, “N-word, N-word, N-word.” Instead, we said, “States’ rights, “Busing,” “Welfare queens” (a two-fer - racism AND misogyny)…..then, we jumped on abortion and killing babies.”

Jesse Helms or candidates Jesse supported were too often on the ballot. Jesse’s political organization, the Congressional Club, saved Reagan’s political career in 1976 with a brutally savage campaign against that notoriously left-wing Gerald Ford.

I realize that you likely regard Ronald Reagan as a true Conservative…….a good conservative……

Ronald Reagan often referred to an “11th Commandment” - “Say no ill of a fellow Republican.

Reagan was “all-in” supporting Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms.

Reagan would be “all-in” supporting Trump.
 
I vote on election day, I go before I eat breakfast . . . my polling place is 5 houses away so I walk there, I haven't voted for a Republican since 1984 and after what transpired on 1-6-2021 I promise that however many few votes that I may have in my lifetime I will never ever vote for any republican again.

Yo DJT . . GFY
 
mpaer said:
When I was a kid in CH there was a Republican Insurance guy ( Mr. Tenney ) that ran once or twice for State Insurance commissioner. No chance of winning-but I always thought he was "principled "
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He’s got a circle somewhere thereabouts.
 
05C40 said:
Good!

My first vote was in May of 1972 when I was 17 years old. Because I turned 18 before the November election day, I was eligible to vote in the primary. The high school I attended rounded up everyone eligible to vote, got us all registered, and then set up a special voting location in the school gym and ran all the eligible students through the voting process. I voted for Shirley Chisolm in the 1972 Democratic Primary for President. She lost. The guy I voted for in November also lost.
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aGDevil2k said:
Here's my question:

If you live in a state with early voting, WHY WOULD YOU VOTE ON ELECTION DAY?

I dont understand the motivation. Tradition? You are a Tuesday kind of person?
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While canvassing for Harris/Walz we visited an 84 year old black woman (best conversation we had with anyone while canvassing) who said that she was voting on Election Day. We asked her why not go earlier, and she replied that she and her sister always go in a large group from her church on Election Day.

It sounded like a “souls to the polls” event for this group. So tradition and an enjoyable wait with people you like could be a good reason for more than just this group to vote on Election Day. It sounded good to my wife and I; a large group with a high likelihood of straight D ballots.
 
superrific said:
I have never in my life voted GOP at any level of government. I've never cared about local races enough to look into the candidates, but I've lived in pretty liberal places with competent local government.

I have never regretted voting straight blue no matter who. Everyone who knows me knows I am a fiercely independent thinker. You don't give away your independence just because you realize that one side in this country is much worse than the other side. In fact, that's an educated judgment.

The people who aren't independent are the ones who make it a point to split their ticket. So they are having choices made for them.
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This. (I did vote for Mike Munger-Libertarian-for Gov of NC in 2012-because I knew him-and I knew the last mnute Dem was going to get Blown out )
 
finesse said:
We ended up voting today. Still don't see how when matters. If does.
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1. It's like winning the WS in game 5 or waiting until game 6 to win in front of your fans. Shit happens. Take the win as soon as you get it.
2. One candidate might completely crap the bed in the last week. I'm quite positive that the GOP is thanking their lucky stars they have gotten more early turnout. Because the way things are headed, their election day turnout does not appear likely to be robust.
 
Zoo_View said:
Here is why you vote straight party - the whole “I vote for the candidate and not the party” is BS.

Why?

The elected officials vote party and not policy.

When a Phil Berger or Mitch McConnell or Tim Moore or Nancy Pelosi comes calling, the officeholder votes party…….

Susan Collins, that renowned moderate from Maine, voted Kavanaugh because McConnell told her to do so. The GOP needed her vote. When the GOP doesn’t need her vote, she can pretend to be a moderate.

Of course, if someone like Trump or Mark Robinson is running, you don’t vote for that person.

Let me know when the Democrats nominate a Trump or Robinson or Gaetz or Boebert.
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finesse said:
We ended up voting today. Still don't see how when matters. If does.
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It doesn’t matter at all. Voting - period - is all that matters.
 
Anecdote from someone in Ohio

"Early voting in Hamilton county today had a great turn out. Lots of younger people including myself. It was pretty packed but well organized and they were getting people in and out efficiently. They had an area in the parking lot specifically for people demonstrating and showing support for their candidates. On one side were a group of people with Democratic signs and they were handing out sample ballots and offering information on the issues and the candidates. The other group consisted of about 5 people dressed in Trump gear and waving Trump flags and they were just SCREAMING at the group of Harris supporters. Yelling obscenities, pointing and laughing. One lady was yelling at those walking in to vote claiming that the Harris supporters were actors paid with 25 million from Switzerland whatever that means. WTF is wrong with these people?"
 
My wife's elderly uncle got into an argument with another guy today about Trump and the other guy said Kamala Harris wasn't even born in America :ROFLMAO:
 
Got home last night from being out of town for work this week to find that my absentee ballot finally arrived. Just gave 'em the big ol' Straight D and going to hand-deliver it to the election commission in downtown Birmingham at lunch today.
 
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