I miss Carnac the Magnificent and I'd like to make my own Election 2008 predictions.
McCain will win. The DNC will cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. The RNC will once again be accused of "stealing" the election.
OR
Obama will win. Sorta. We'll never really wade through the voter fraud. It'll make us long for the days of dangling chad.
At the YMCA tonight, I heard Lou Dobbs connect McCain to Palestinians. <cough> I also heard several preteen girls in the bathroom proclaiming their love for Obama. <gag> The most amazing item I heard, though, was that 29 of Mississippi's 82 counties have more voters registered than eligible adults. In all, there are 10% more voters registered than are eligible, according to the 2000 Census. George County Circuit Clerk Chad Welford says that the Census doesn't reflect the growth his county has experienced in the last eight years. According to Welford's logic, Mississippi has had a population boom of at least 10% since 2000. Right and I've got a bridge to sell you.
On the way home, H and I were talking about the voter fraud and H remarked that we've become a third world country. He's right. We're one of those pathetic nations most Americans can't find on a map and no one pays attention to except during an election when Jimmy Carter and the UN manage to show up to give their stamp of approval to the local dictator who hates liberty and calls for the destruction of America.
Yay, us! How far we've come.
Wow! I live in Mississippi and this is really disturbing. I figured out the other night just how easy it would be to vote fraudulently. Of course I didn't do it. In Mississippi you can register to vote online. My grandmother has never registered to vote. I could have quite easily registered as her (I have all of her personal info.) and gone to the polls and voted as her. I'm very much in favor of voter i.d., although I don't think it'll ever pass. There are screams of "racism" every time it comes up. Although I have no idea how this is a race issue. *rolling eyes*
I keep hearing about elderly women who have never voted or only voted once years ago. This is a strange phenomenon to me. I wonder what has caused this.
I'm not sure. I know my paternal grandmother never would register to vote because her husband didn't want her to. He was very opposed to her having to serve jury duty. This grandmother just doesn't care enough to vote. She has political opinions, but won't go vote even though her husband votes every opportunity. Odd, isn't it? Even odder, though, is I have a dear friend that is about my age (34) that will not vote. Her reasoning is that she helped vote Clinton in and that was a mistake. So she won't even register now to vote (she moved from where she was originally registered). It's really disturbing to me.