You mean actual Senate race? Not in this state. Just the main house race. I think Specter gets voted on in '04.> On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 11:10:36AM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > > If you are registered to vote in the US, be sure you vote on Tuesday > > (unless you do early voting like I did). I don't care about *who* you > > vote for; even if you're in my precinct (which I don't think anyone is, > > unless there's a lurker living close by), or just in my state, and you > > vote against every single candidate I voted for, you should take > > advantage of your right to vote and have some sort of say in who > > represents you in your government. > > True. Unless, of course, you live in one of the approximately 415 > Congressional districts where the race has already been decided by > devious re-drawing of the districts. According to a recent Economist > article, out of 435 races for US House of Rep., only about 20 are > competitive. 4 of those are in Iowa (Iowa has 5 total seats in > the House), and Iowa is the only state that has a non-partisan > committee determine the districts (although Arizona recently passed > a referendum to do that). In a "typical" democracy, about 20% of the > Congressional/Parliament races are competitive, in the U.S. this year, > that number is only 4%.Heck, *my* district was almost certainly determined in a primary runoff earlier this year. But we have a bunch of other things on the ballot -- governor, lieutenant governor (that's a *really* important one, as the lieutenant governor sets the schedule for the legislature, and there's no incumbent running so it's *really* up in the air), various state judges, various commissioners, and a senate seat being vacated by Gramm. There was enough important, not-cut-and-dried stuff on *my* ballot that I took the time to do some research on the candidates and really *think* about it. Each person in the US is governed at both the state and federal level. While there wasn't much at the federal level that my vote was liable to affect (I have no idea how close the Senate race is), there were an awful lot of things at the state level at stake. How many people have state stuff on their ballot? How many people are voting in a tight Senate race this year? Julia
Okay go here:
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
What does CLASS mean after each senator? Why do the links open up disabled web pages? No scroll bar, no header bar, ect. (Using Netscape 6) Could that proxiemon be doing it?
Kevin T.
So many questions....
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