This is not really a political article. I’ve had a rotten, terrible day from hell with power outages, hours-long loss of internet service, torrential downpours, children from hell, and so on. My life sucked today but a couple of things made me laugh tonight and I’m here to tell you about them.
About 6:00 p.m. I drove to my polling place. The lines were long. Very long. I didn’t mind the long line; I think that’s great.
Finally, I get my ballot. WTF? Kucinich is on it. So is John Edwards. Didn’t they drop out of the race? “How many people that are uninformed are going to waste their votes on people that aren’t even running anymore?” I think to myself as I fill in my oval for Obama. I also noticed a line for “Uncommited” on my ballot.
Shortly after the polls closed my husband logged onto our local newspaper website to check the returns so far. Sure enough, many people had voted for John Edwards and Kucinich. I have to wonder if these voters knew that those guys weren’t even running. Oh, well. Then we noticed the really funny part, the part that leaves me asking, “Who are these people?”
A great many people had gotten into their cars and driven through a torrential downpour and even occasional hail on flooded streets and driven to their polling place. Those same people then stood in line for half an hour only to cast a ballot for…
Uncommitted.
Who are these people? Why not just stay home?
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February 6, 2008 at 8:27 am
Ina
They could just pencil in my name. I will happily decline to serve if elected.
February 9, 2008 at 7:37 am
pandemonic
Not me. I wouldn’t do it for a bazillion dollars, which makes me suspect why any of these guys are running in the first place.
February 10, 2008 at 5:31 pm
tigereye
I’m gonna say an unusually bitchy (even for me) thing here… they’re the same people who voted for the godforsaken idiot we have in office right now.
All the former candidates were still on my state’s ballot too, and I watched the returns scroll across the bottom of the TV screen that night, wondering how even my state could be home to 600 fools who would actually push a button for Dennis Kucinich.
May 24, 2008 at 9:39 am
Rachael
I think that once they are on the ballot, they can’t be taken off. I don’t know. My vote doesn’t count, I’m in FL.
Edwards dropped out, what, the day before our primary. Think of how many votes he received.
The idea that anyone could argue that those votes should now be counted is insane.
People vote noncommitted if their candidate of choice isn’t on the ballot. In MI Hillary was the only one of the main three on the ballot but only garnered about half the vote. 40% were uncommitted, presumably Edwards and Obama supporters.