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October 24, 2006
I Voted
I went to vote today and boy was I disappointed. I thought the Republicans had nominated someone for congress in my district, but it turns out my only choice for Representative was some libertarian guy and Democrat Charlie Gonzalez, so once again some random Libertarian guy with no chance of winning got my vote for congress. Same basic vote (Lib over Dem) for state rep. I left the US Senate vote blank, voted for Rick Perry very reluctantly for governor, and for the other races voted Republican if one was in the race, Libertarian if no Republican was running, and left blank every other race where no Republican or Libertarian was running, except for one Democrat judge I am ok with who was running unopposed. My vote for Senate does not matter (Hutchinson is almost 30 points ahead in the poll I checked this morning before voting) and my vote for governor did not matter much. I was tempted to vote for Kinky just to help put the Democrat Bell in third place since Perry is going to win by over ten points probably, even though less than half the state likes him.
There was not a single candidate in any top ticket race that I liked. Sigh. I am pretty sure this was the worst set of major candidates that I have ever had to chose from.
Posted by Pete at October 24, 2006 03:46 PM
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Have you seen our choices for Governor in CA? Do you still feel bad?
Posted by: Jeff at October 24, 2006 08:03 PM
I dunno. If givin a choice between Rick Perry and Arnold Schwartzenegger I would probably vote for Schwartzenegger. Arnold at least tried to fix things for a while before he gave up. I feel a little bit bad for Arnold because California is probably the hardest state to govern because of all the propositions, a near useless state legislature, and a fickle population that is impossible to please.
Perry is only poling about 36% approval even though Texans voted for Bush by around 60% last election, which is the same as Angelitos compared with Kerry in California. The pathetic nominee from the Democarts in Texas is Chris Bell and he is poling at 20%. It looks like Bell may come in 3rd, with independent Strayhorn coming in 2nd.
Posted by: Pete at October 25, 2006 10:02 AM