>From SLATE: >Already, at least 40 percent of voters in California have requested that ballots be mailed to them. Many more requests are expected before the request deadline of Tuesday—and the front-page publicity won't hurt those numbers. One Californian explains the motivation for mailing a vote in early: "Now I don't have to pay attention to the flood of ads and last-minute attacks. I can tune the election out." Good luck with that.<
I voted by mail this morning. Since my vote is of such earth-shattering importance, I should tell you that I cast it for Nader. Following the late Molly Ivins' advice, I voted that way because California is going big time for Obama. It doesn't matter how I vote, so why not vote anti-corporate? (The Green Party, led by Cynthia McKinney, seems out.) If my vote had any effect, I'd vote for Obama, since his election alone would be a major blow against racism (and because I don't want more Scalia types on the Supremes). -- Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
