Bring on the Maalox

[ciroccoj]

Just voted. bear, I feel like you, when you were saying things like "Please please please don't let Ohio fuck this up" before the American election. Because it's disheartening to know that your home is instrumental to putting a total a****** a leader you find unpalatable into power.

See this pretty little page called Marginal Seats in 2006 Canadian Election? Ridings where, in the last election, the candidate won by 5% or less? 58 seats that may determine whether Stephen Harper gets a minority seat, or a blank check to sell us all down the river? Ottawa West-Nepean, that's us!

On a cheerier note, I've never seen so many Green signs. And I personally know at least two people who are voting Green this election. They're projecting 1 million Green votes nationwide (remember we've only got 32 million people) - although unfortunately, not a single seat, as per usual. Maybe next time; the vote either doubles or quadruples with every election, I forget which.



Edit: And they picked a great day for the election, too. At least, according to this page, linked to by linaelyn: January 23, the saddest day of the year.

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[cabenson.livejournal.com]

"Please please please don't let Ohio fuck this up" before the American election.
As a Blue Ohioan stuck in this red state, I have to say that it was not necessarily the "people" of the state that fucked up as much as the public officials who enabled electoral fraud. Every person I asked voted for JK...Kenneth Blackwell stole Ohio for Bush. Bastard.

Anyway, our hopes are with you all up there. We know the importance of this election.

[officerjudy.livejournal.com]

And what angers me the most is that we'll not know the full scope of Bush's corruption until long after he's out of office.