I hope you voted today. I went down to the Community Center around 10am and voted. There wasn’t too bad a line - I guess I planned it just right - to wait until most of the commuters had gone to work. I was in and out of there in twenty minutes.
I get a kick out of how old fashioned our town is - still using the old paper ballots that have to be put into a box after you fill them out in the little curtained booths. I wonder if and when our town will ever modernize and get the electronic voting machines.
I’ve been hearing on CNN that there has been some controversy in Michigan about a high ranked Republican official who was mis-quoted as saying that he was going to try to prevent people who lost their homes to foreclosure from voting. That has caused quite an uproar, as you can imagine! When I heard the news at first I missed part of the story, so I wasn’t sure where this was happening. But today I heard more of the story and apparently it was in Michigan. After all of the brouhaha had settled down, the gist of the story is that if someone has lost their home to foreclosure and no longer lives in the same precinct as he did when he registered, then he can’t vote. But that really has nothing to do with foreclosure, it has to do with voting in the precinct in which you actually live!
So this is one story that may have been blown out of proportion (imagine that!)
I was very surprised to hear this morning that General Powell has endorsed Barack Obama for President! I have been reading a few articles about it on various websites such as Time.com and the BBC, and was reading that he says that part of his decision was based on McCain’s decision to ask Sarah Palin to be his running mate. He says that Sarah Palin is not ready for the White House, and he also expressed disappointment in how the campaign ads have been turning so negative.
I heard on the news last night that some states have mandated that on Election Day in November, no one in the building will be allowed to wear or display anything that indicates who they are supporting. No T-shirts, hats, sweatshirts, campaign buttons, nothing! I was very surprised to hear that! They must be afraid of violence breaking out in certain areas! I certainly know that emotions are running high in this campaign! I understand that the rulings are being challenged, but I don’t know how that is going to work out! What an interesting year this is turning out to be! Certainly going to go down in history as one with a lot of major events!
I was watching on the television news that at a Rally in Richmond VA today Sarah Palin mistook the hollers from her supporters yelling “louder, louder” because they couldn’t hear her for protesters. Oops! She addressed the “protesters” by saying something like she hoped they appreciated the veterans who made their free speech possible. What an “egg on my face” mistake was that! I didn’t hear on the news what she said when she found out about her error, but I hope she apologized!