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Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm**

Today was MY "Super Tuesday" voting experience.

Initially I had been having a problem I'd never prior had. Who to vote for! In the past I'd always been certain. This time I did not know who to chose among Pete B, Bloomberg, or Amy K. There was no way I'd be voting for Warren, Biden, or Sanders.

Pete B and Amy K made my choice easy by dropping out. I was not pleased, though, that both gave their support to the repulsive BIden!

I used to vote at a library about a mile/ few minutes from my house. But to equalize how many people voted at each location I was switched to (and have stayed at) another location. That place is about 5 miles / 10 minutes from my house.

I arrived around 10:15 AM.

I am "unenrolled" so I needed to make a choice. I chose Democratic. Then I was truly shocked to find out that we were no longer using paper -- that we'd gone electronic!

I don't know if I'd ever prior experienced non-paper voting.

I filled in my oval for Bloomberg, put in my ballot upside down in some device, and I got a Thank You on the screen.

At the time I was voting I was the only person voting. Just as I was leaving another voter or two was in the room.

I know the Sanders will be taking Massachusetts and I'm predicting that he will take 75% of the vote in my county.

Usually our local paper has the vote breakdown for each town and city the day after the voting. Never for my town since it's been all paper and they can never count them in time for the newspaper's deadline.

Tomorrow will be the first I'll also be able see how my town voted.

Vinny

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:00 pm**

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm Today was MY "Super Tuesday" voting experience.

Initially I had been having a problem I'd never prior had. Who to vote for! In the past I'd always been certain. This time I did not know who to chose among Pete B, Bloomberg, or Amy K. There was no way I'd be voting for Warren, Biden, or Sanders.

Pete B and Amy K made my choice easy by dropping out. I was not pleased, though, that both gave their support to the repulsive BIden!

I used to vote at a library about a mile/ few minutes from my house. But to equalize how many people voted at each location I was switched to (and have stayed at) another location. That place is about 5 miles / 10 minutes from my house.

I arrived around 10:15 AM.

I am "unenrolled" so I needed to make a choice. I chose Democratic. Then I was truly shocked to find out that we were no longer using paper -- that we'd gone electronic!

I don't know if I'd ever prior experienced non-paper voting.

I filled in my oval for Bloomberg, put in my ballot upside down in some device, and I got a Thank You on the screen.

At the time I was voting I was the only person voting. Just as I was leaving another voter or two was in the room.

I know the Sanders will be taking Massachusetts and I'm predicting that he will take 75% of the vote in my county.

Usually our local paper has the vote breakdown for each town and city the day after the voting. Never for my town since it's been all paper and they can never count them in time for the newspaper's deadline.

Tomorrow will be the first I'll also be able see how my town voted.

Vinny

Well this is certainly a SHOCKER to me!

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Vinny

Posted: **Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:52 pm**

I feel sorry for Elizabeth Warren losing her home state.

Vinny

Whoops, I mean
me

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:54 am**

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:52 pm I feel sorry for Elizabeth Warren losing her home state.

Vinny

Whoops, I mean
me

I do always wonder how U.S. Senators find time to do their real job, i.e., U.S. Senator while they are running all over the country campaigning for president. None of them are super humans being super efficient. They have to be neglecting many of the duties of their jobs. How would any of us perform in our own jobs if we were spending nearly every waking moment trying to find a new job? But I guess that is just one of the drawbacks of our national political system. I'm old enough to remember when Bill Clinton announced in January 1992 that he was running for president in 1992. And, in August 1988 when Mike Dukasis took the month off from campaigning for president to get back to his duties of being the governor of Massachusetts.

Vinny

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:12 am**

MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:01 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm
I used to vote at a library about a mile/ few minutes from my house. But to equalize how many people voted at each location I was switched to (and have stayed at) another location. That place is about 5 miles / 10 minutes from my house.

Vinny
I haven't set foot in a polling place in years. Doesn't your county have vote-by-mail? They send you the ballot, you vote and mail it back. No physical disability required to participate.

We have early voting. But I am almost certain no voting by mail.

Vinny

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2020 8:45 am**

MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 6:59 am
dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 10:52 pm I feel sorry for Elizabeth Warren losing her home state.

Vinny

Whoops, I mean
me
I don't. She was by far the most awful candidate, worse even than Hillary whom I would have voted for if the choice was between only them.

She wasn't my favorite either.

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2020 9:20 am**

MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:01 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm
I used to vote at a library about a mile/ few minutes from my house. But to equalize how many people voted at each location I was switched to (and have stayed at) another location. That place is about 5 miles / 10 minutes from my house.

Vinny
I haven't set foot in a polling place in years. Doesn't your county have vote-by-mail? They send you the ballot, you vote and mail it back. No physical disability required to participate.

Isn't that just easy pickings for fraud?

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2020 2:08 pm**

I live in a western conservative state and it didn't have an R primary. I was quite surprised to read this morning that Bearnie pretty much swept the state in the D primary (not that it matters at all in the general).

Posted: **Wed Mar 04, 2020 2:39 pm**

MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 2:35 pm
Xan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 9:20 am
MangoMan wrote: ↑Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:01 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm
I used to vote at a library about a mile/ few minutes from my house. But to equalize how many people voted at each location I was switched to (and have stayed at) another location. That place is about 5 miles / 10 minutes from my house.

Vinny
I haven't set foot in a polling place in years. Doesn't your county have vote-by-mail? They send you the ballot, you vote and mail it back. No physical disability required to participate.
Isn't that just easy pickings for fraud?
All the concern of Russian interference in the elections is laughable. They need to worry about the crooked politics at the local level. More people
(voting Dem, I assure you) registered to vote than the number of actual voting age citizens. My friend is an election judge and claims they watch the process closely. Maybe here in the burbs, but I doubt there is any serious oversight in the city where it is considered treason to vote anything but straight Dem.

I'd be much more concerned about local-level fraud in a pay-by-mail scheme than the Russians. Especially in Chicago!

Posted: **Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:16 am**

yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm Initially I had been having a problem I'd never prior had. Who to vote for! In the past I'd always been certain. This time I did not know who to chose among Pete B, Bloomberg, or Amy K. There was no way I'd be voting for Warren, Biden, or Sanders.
. . .
I filled in my oval for Bloomberg, put in my ballot upside down in some device, and I got a Thank You on the screen.

Looks like the lil fella is suspending his campaign and endorsing Biden. Hey, at least you can go do something fun on 3 November!

Posted: **Thu Mar 05, 2020 11:55 am**

I just posted a Jeff Gundlach gold quote, but he also said something interesting about the election, namely that Bernie Sanders is popular with "people who don't vote." He said if those people didn't bother to show up for Sanders on Super Tuesday, they "are really unlikely to show up for Biden" in the election vs Trump.

Posted: **Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:44 pm**

MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:57 am
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:16 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm Initially I had been having a problem I'd never prior had. Who to vote for! In the past I'd always been certain. This time I did not know who to chose among Pete B, Bloomberg, or Amy K. There was no way I'd be voting for Warren, Biden, or Sanders.
. . .
I filled in my oval for Bloomberg, put in my ballot upside down in some device, and I got a Thank You on the screen.
Looks like the lil fella is suspending his campaign and endorsing Biden. Hey, at least you can go do something fun on 3 November!
Vinny, it looks like you will be voting for Trump!

NEVER!

It will be either the best third party candidate I can find. Bill Weld if he is running. I voted for him when he ran and won Massachusetts governor.

Or, one of the Democrats who have dropped out. Probably Tulsi Gabbard. Though I don't believe she has yet dropped out.

Vinny

Posted: **Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:59 pm**

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:44 pm
MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:57 am
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:16 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm Initially I had been having a problem I'd never prior had. Who to vote for! In the past I'd always been certain. This time I did not know who to chose among Pete B, Bloomberg, or Amy K. There was no way I'd be voting for Warren, Biden, or Sanders.
. . .
I filled in my oval for Bloomberg, put in my ballot upside down in some device, and I got a Thank You on the screen.
Looks like the lil fella is suspending his campaign and endorsing Biden. Hey, at least you can go do something fun on 3 November!
Vinny, it looks like you will be voting for Trump!
NEVER!

It will be either the best third party candidate I can find. Bill Weld if he is running. I voted for him when he ran and won Massachusetts governor.

Or, one of the Democrats who have dropped out. Probably Tulsi Gabbard. Though I don't believe she has yet dropped out.

Vinny

Bill Weld is in the Republican primary. Can he still run as an independent after that?

Posted: **Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:26 pm**

Xan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:59 pm
yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:44 pm
MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:57 am
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:16 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm Initially I had been having a problem I'd never prior had. Who to vote for! In the past I'd always been certain. This time I did not know who to chose among Pete B, Bloomberg, or Amy K. There was no way I'd be voting for Warren, Biden, or Sanders.
. . .
I filled in my oval for Bloomberg, put in my ballot upside down in some device, and I got a Thank You on the screen.
Looks like the lil fella is suspending his campaign and endorsing Biden. Hey, at least you can go do something fun on 3 November!
Vinny, it looks like you will be voting for Trump!
NEVER!

It will be either the best third party candidate I can find. Bill Weld if he is running. I voted for him when he ran and won Massachusetts governor.

Or, one of the Democrats who have dropped out. Probably Tulsi Gabbard. Though I don't believe she has yet dropped out.

Vinny
Bill Weld is in the Republican primary. Can he still run as an independent after that?

Without doing any research and from the top of my head I believe he can drop out of the Republican primary and run as something else? Was he not the Libertarian candidate in 2016? Cannot remember now if he was the presidential or vice-presidential candidate and who the other person was.

VInny

Posted: **Thu Mar 05, 2020 11:44 pm**

yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 9:26 pm
Xan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:59 pm
yankees60 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 8:44 pm
MangoMan wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:57 am
Kriegsspiel wrote: ↑Thu Mar 05, 2020 6:16 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 03, 2020 9:13 pm Initially I had been having a problem I'd never prior had. Who to vote for! In the past I'd always been certain. This time I did not know who to chose among Pete B, Bloomberg, or Amy K. There was no way I'd be voting for Warren, Biden, or Sanders.
. . .
I filled in my oval for Bloomberg, put in my ballot upside down in some device, and I got a Thank You on the screen.
Looks like the lil fella is suspending his campaign and endorsing Biden. Hey, at least you can go do something fun on 3 November!
Vinny, it looks like you will be voting for Trump!
NEVER!

It will be either the best third party candidate I can find. Bill Weld if he is running. I voted for him when he ran and won Massachusetts governor.

Or, one of the Democrats who have dropped out. Probably Tulsi Gabbard. Though I don't believe she has yet dropped out.

Vinny
Bill Weld is in the Republican primary. Can he still run as an independent after that?
Without doing any research and from the top of my head I believe he can drop out of the Republican primary and run as something else? Was he not the Libertarian candidate in 2016? Cannot remember now if he was the presidential or vice-presidential candidate and who the other person was.

VInny

It was Gary Johnson (P) and Bill Weld (VP) on the Libertarian ticket last time...no idea who the LP will run this time (do they have a convention? primaries? caucuses?).

Posted: **Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:36 pm**

As previously stated, I (presumably along with everyone else) was shocked that Sanders did NOT win Massachusetts.

However, I was 100% correct that he would big-time win my county.

Of the 30 towns in my county, he won 25 of them. Biden won two and Warren won two.

Out of 26,000 county votes cast (WiseOne! There are 27,000 people per square mile in New York City??!!), which was about 40% of the registered voters, they went this way:

Sanders: 9,000
Warren: 5,500
Biden: 5,500
Gabbard: 200
Bloomberg: 1,500
Trump: 2,600
Weld: 400
Other: 1,300 (I read in the article one woman voted for her dog, who would be age eligible for president since he is 70 years old in dog years)

My town had 2,500 votes. Notables:

Sanders: 1,100
Warren & BIden: each 500
Bloomberg: I was one of the 145 who voted for him
Trump: 180
Weld: 30

So my town was fairly much in line with the rest of the county except for more overweighted for Sanders and underweighted for Trump.

I do live in an area where people either don't have any friends who voted for Trump or even don't know anyone who voted for Trump.

The county is not a rich county. Actually poor compared to the rest of the state. But the two most down and out towns of the 30 towns in the county voted for Trump at a 25% rate, compared to the overall county rate of about 10%. Sanders got about 30% of the vote in those two towns.

Vinny

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:06 am**

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:07 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:36 pm As previously stated, I (presumably along with everyone else) was shocked that Sanders did NOT win Massachusetts.

However, I was 100% correct that he would big-time win my county.

Of the 30 towns in my county, he won 25 of them. Biden won two and Warren won two.

Out of 26,000 county votes cast (WiseOne! There are 27,000 people per square mile in New York City??!!), which was about 40% of the registered voters, they went this way:

Sanders: 9,000
Warren: 5,500
Biden: 5,500
Gabbard: 200
Bloomberg: 1,500
Trump: 2,600
Weld: 400
Other: 1,300 (I read in the article one woman voted for her dog, who would be age eligible for president since he is 70 years old in dog years)

My town had 2,500 votes. Notables:

Sanders: 1,100
Warren & BIden: each 500
Bloomberg: I was one of the 145 who voted for him
Trump: 180
Weld: 30

So my town was fairly much in line with the rest of the county except for more overweighted for Sanders and underweighted for Trump.

I do live in an area where people either don't have any friends who voted for Trump or even don't know anyone who voted for Trump.

Vinny
Sounds like you live in a bubble.
If so, you will probably be surprised at the results of the November election.

I know the demographics in which I live. I also know the demographics of where I do not live. I will not be surprised by anything that happens in November.

I don't know if anyone here remembers this. After the 1972 election n which Massachusetts was the only state of 50 that did NOT vote for Nixon cars in Massachusetts had bumper stickers which said: "Don't blame me: I'm from Massachusetts!"

I told someone last night that after Biden gets elected I will put a bumper sticker on my car: "Don't blame me: I did NOT vote for Biden."

Vinny

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:39 am**

Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:24 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 9:06 am
Libertarian666 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:07 am
yankees60 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 06, 2020 8:36 pm As previously stated, I (presumably along with everyone else) was shocked that Sanders did NOT win Massachusetts.

However, I was 100% correct that he would big-time win my county.

Of the 30 towns in my county, he won 25 of them. Biden won two and Warren won two.

Out of 26,000 county votes cast (WiseOne! There are 27,000 people per square mile in New York City??!!), which was about 40% of the registered voters, they went this way:

Sanders: 9,000
Warren: 5,500
Biden: 5,500
Gabbard: 200
Bloomberg: 1,500
Trump: 2,600
Weld: 400
Other: 1,300 (I read in the article one woman voted for her dog, who would be age eligible for president since he is 70 years old in dog years)

My town had 2,500 votes. Notables:

Sanders: 1,100
Warren & BIden: each 500
Bloomberg: I was one of the 145 who voted for him
Trump: 180
Weld: 30

So my town was fairly much in line with the rest of the county except for more overweighted for Sanders and underweighted for Trump.

I do live in an area where people either don't have any friends who voted for Trump or even don't know anyone who voted for Trump.

Vinny
Sounds like you live in a bubble.
If so, you will probably be surprised at the results of the November election.
I know the demographics in which I live. I also know the demographics of where I do not live. I will not be surprised by anything that happens in November.

I don't know if anyone here remembers this. After the 1972 election n which Massachusetts was the only state of 50 that did NOT vote for Nixon cars in Massachusetts had bumper stickers which said: "Don't blame me: I'm from Massachusetts!"

I told someone last night that after Biden gets elected I will put a bumper sticker on my car: "Don't blame me: I did NOT vote for Biden."

Vinny
It so happens that I lived in Massachusetts in 1972 and predicted that McGovern would win the election because everyone I knew voted for him. And he was running against Nixon, who should have been easy to beat because he was so unlikable and such a crook.

Needless to say, I was right about Massachusetts but wrong about the country.

That was actually my first vote ever. I was living in Rhode Island at the time, a traditionally heavily Democratic voting state. I don't seem to remember thinking that McGovern was going to win.

Vinny

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