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It's time to make a mid-course election correction.

Even if you're disgusted by the candidates of both major parties, go to the polls and vote for the Greens, the independents, the Commies, the Whigs, whoever. Let's push this two-party system over a cliff and show our support for the other guys!

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ms oddgers says:

Good on ya!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Lú_ says:

blog.flickr.com/ :)
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Olivander says:

Oh, how cool! Thanks for pointing that out to me, Lú!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

NowPublic says:

This photograph appears in a NowPublic news story: Issues, Issues, Issues: Driving the Mid-Terms.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

fouramjava says:

:-) I thought I would create some stickers for the next election, after watching all those crap commericals on the tube where they slash each other instead of simply saying, "Vote for me" so the stickers will read...

I didn't vote for any of those schmucks who were on TV or made prerecorded calls to my house.

Gads - I'm glad it's almost over!!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

!efatima says:

Way to go! Saw it on flickr blog!!
:)
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

shadan2u says:

Cool Stuff...
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Luke H says:

I got to vote on the new machine this year.

I'm not much of a democrat (or anything really), but I've never been happier to have them back in control of things! Hide your babies and taxible income ;-) The republicans warned me!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Olivander says:

When someone I was talking to brought up "tax-and-spend" Democrats, I asked them, "Which is worse? Tax-and-spend, or dont-tax-and-spend?" I think that made them stop and think about their soundbite for the first time.

I saw no one using the voting machines where I voted. People preferred to stand in line and use the paper ballots. In the end, the ballots were all fed into an optical reader anyway, so I'm not sure how much more accurate they were.

I don't want to go into a rant about my politics here. Let's just say that both major parties have me so disappointed that I ended up voting for more independents than ever before. The donkeys and the elephants are locked into an archaic mindset that's overriding common sense and causing bad, bad laws to be written and nothing productive to be done.

Government should be all about bettering the lives of its citizens, and all I see anymore are power-mongers using the power of the government to impose their will upon others.
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Luke H says:

Our independents barely got 1% of the vote this time around. It's too bad because common sense politics would be nice.. Like most people, I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal ;-) They had a guy in Des moines running for what he called the Pirate Party, where he explained that pirates had a rule that if the leader was doing a bad job, the constituents could make him walk the plank.

(he also mentioned he's on disability from work and we might as well send him to Washington since taxpayers are already paying to keep him alive!)

The problem was that the people who were taxxing me less were spending much more than the ones that were taxing me. The sponge was getting squeezed past dry I'm afraid.

Maybe without the stranglehold 50/50 layout we can start pushing something, anything, through the house and senate. Maybe we can consider this election sort of a laxitive that's hopefully going to free up a severely impacted bowel system!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Olivander says:

As one of my buttons says, "Politically constipated--I need a movement bad!" :-)
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

Luke H says:

Haha, that's a good one too. And come to think of it, I have no problem calling a democrat a suppository!
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

jasperroz says:

Good one....
Posted 38 months ago. ( permalink )

al_qubaisi_444 says:

goooooood
Posted 37 months ago. ( permalink )

aDnauu41tgt says:

Looks wonderful...
Posted 35 months ago. ( permalink )

pingnews.com says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Democracy in Action, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 33 months ago. ( permalink )

N.Ouellette says:

And who are these "bums" ? :-)
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

N.Ouellette says:

Republicans?
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

Olivander says:

They're all bums.
Posted 32 months ago. ( permalink )

cursedthing says:

OMG, How did I miss this one.
I love it!!

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Seen on sevenels.net (?)
Posted 29 months ago. ( permalink )

pacificaradio says:

Great photo, and sentiment - we are using your image on our new election related site, here www.electionunspun.org/issues/third-party/50- third-party/...
Thanks for sharing!
Posted 22 months ago. ( permalink )

I voted yesterday, but I could not choose the person
only the party
This is Italy!....no a real democracy at all.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

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