Lion of the Blogosphere

I didn’t vote today

Cuomo was leading the Republican guy in the polls by more than 20 percentage points. I think there’s no point in voting.

Written by Lion of the Blogosphere

November 4, 2014 at 3:15 PM

Posted in Politics

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  1. There’s no point in voting because almost all the candidates don’t seem to be credible and the ones who have credibility are usually Democrats like Cuomo, whom you are not favorable of.

    JS

    November 4, 2014 at 3:43 PM

  2. Cuomo was leading the Republican guy in the polls by more than 20 percentage points.

    Proof that New Yorkers aren’t nearly as smart as they think they are.

    destructure

    November 4, 2014 at 3:44 PM

    • How do we know if Astorino will make a good governor?

      JS

      November 4, 2014 at 4:25 PM

    • Cuomo actually has a conservative streak, balancing the budget hard and putting on hard Ebola rules for instance. Those who want conservative outcomes in a blue state might be advised to back someone like that because they could get away with toughness that a conservative could not.

      Dan

      November 4, 2014 at 5:48 PM

      • @ Dan “Cuomo actually has a conservative streak

        Indeed. The choice was between a conservative Republican and a conservative Democrat in a state with an overwhelmingly liberal electorate. Interesting no?

        destructure

        November 5, 2014 at 12:37 AM

      • Cuomo is Italian. Liberal Italians are an oxymoron. I know a few Italian Americans who’ve come of the close and they all VOTE REPUBLICAN.

        JS

        November 5, 2014 at 11:12 AM

      • * come out of the closet

        JS

        November 5, 2014 at 11:13 AM

      • “* come out of the closet”

        Are you referring to IAs who are gay?

        Maryk

        November 5, 2014 at 12:44 PM

  3. No good local races? City council, judicial races, school board, referendums? You could write in your own name for railroad commissioner.

    BehindTheLines

    November 4, 2014 at 3:55 PM

    • In a losing effort, in 1977, I voted for myself for high school freshman class president. My only other attempt at politics was when I was a part-time law school student at a toilet law school in 1986 – I thought it would be help my future law career to do some public service and got myself appointed to my suburban Boston Planning Board. That appointment, along with my law school career, lasted all of one year.

      I’m thinking of early retirement in a few years and I’m now thinking I might run for City Council at that time- not out of any desire to serve, but mostly for the excellent no-cost health insurance!

      E. Rekshun

      November 4, 2014 at 5:44 PM

      • What took the place of law?

        Curle

        November 5, 2014 at 12:27 AM

      • What took the place of law?

        An MBA and a reasonably satisfying, though not high-paying, career in financial & managerial analysis. And plan to retire at or before age 55.

        E. Rekshun

        November 5, 2014 at 11:48 AM

    • I vote in every dinky election to vote against all the idiots running in the little races. I also vote against school bonds, local tax increases, for the country commissioners and sheriff, etc.

      not too late

      November 4, 2014 at 7:55 PM

      • Yes, there are plenty of downticket issues to vote on. Only stupid proles think it’s all about the candidates at the top.

        Take that, Lion. ..

        caroljm36

        November 5, 2014 at 12:09 AM

  4. If you are a conspiracy theorist, you would believe Democrats and Republicans piggy back each other to keep the middle class at bay and so they can further enrich the elites. It’s all a puff show. Notice Democrats support losers who are mostly NAMs and Republicans support proles.

    JS

    November 4, 2014 at 5:00 PM

    • And more CT, it seems like Ebola is out of the news as I expected.

      JS

      November 4, 2014 at 5:04 PM

  5. people need to start voting for 3rd parties. people forget that the republicans started out as a 3rd party.

    zodak

    November 4, 2014 at 5:07 PM

    • Times were different back before the Civil War.

      Lion of the Blogosphere

      November 4, 2014 at 11:29 PM

    • People forget the Republicans were formed from the ashes of the Whigs, the largest major party in US history to come apart, and over what? Unchecked immigration.

      “The changed demographics presented Whigs with a choice between intensifying their previous nativist leanings or competing with Democrats for newly arrived voters. In the 1852 presidential election, the Whigs decided for the first time to appeal to Catholic immigrants. The strategy partly reflected a calculation that Irish and German immigrants were undeniably an immense voting group while nativists were difficult to count and unite; for example, prohibition did not enjoy the support of every old-stock voter troubled by the new populations. The leading promoter of the new policy, William Henry Seward, had long called on Whigs to abandon their nativist leanings and as governor of New York had supported public funding for parochial schools. Although informed both by a pragmatic assessment of the electorate and by considerations of principle, Seward’s reform of the party destroyed one of the last features that distinguished Whigs from Democrats.” http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2536601410.html

      Curle

      November 5, 2014 at 12:33 AM

    • The most obvious contemporary example is Ross Perot since, IIRC, he had around 18% of the general vote. So how effective was the Reform Party platform (as opposed to potentially taking about votes from Bush, Sr.) in affecting the political agenda of the major parties.

      Latias

      November 5, 2014 at 1:25 PM

  6. Reminds me of when Cuomo’s father, Mario the Pious, was governor. He was at some kind of public appearance, and an older woman told him “you’re not nearly as ugly in person as you are on TV,” or something like that. Gotta love New Yorkers.

    Sgt. Joe Friday

    November 4, 2014 at 5:13 PM

  7. Voting is racist.

    JMroe

    November 4, 2014 at 6:47 PM

  8. I voted. Straight Republican except for magistrate judge. Throw the bums out on the state supreme court (sic semper tyrannis). No on all bonds. No to the teacher’s union power grab (separate school board elections from other elections).

    Some Guy

    November 4, 2014 at 6:49 PM

  9. You think you can fool us?

    Tonight’s elections will end in one of two ways:

    1 – Thanks to vote machine rigging last night Astorino wins after Lion’s vote is ‘accidentally’ counted two million times with no one suspecting fraud.

    2 – Thanks to vote machine rigging last night Astorino wins after Lion’s vote is ‘accidentally’ counted two million times and everyone suspects fraud. Unionized government workers then smash through Lion’s apartment and carry him screaming through lower Manhattan’s streets in chains.

    You didn’t vote indeed.

    The Undiscovered Jew

    November 4, 2014 at 7:00 PM

    • Regardless of whether or not Lion shows up at the polling place or fills out a ballot, he probably “votes” in every close election.

      Some Guy

      November 5, 2014 at 12:20 AM

  10. So if the polling was 50-50, you’d think that there was a real possibility that your individual vote would’ve made the difference?

    Hepp

    November 4, 2014 at 7:55 PM

  11. The melt on MSNBC tonight is going to be truly outstanding.

    Unspeakable_Lulz

    November 4, 2014 at 8:31 PM

  12. New York has been a mecca for third world peasants since its inception. QED.

    Viscount Douchenozzlé

    November 4, 2014 at 9:31 PM

    • And now a mecca for SWPLs who overinflate the housing market for shoddy apartments. How about a 400 sq ft studio for $3K a month?

      JS

      November 5, 2014 at 2:05 PM

  13. But did the Brothers? Not the part about taking responsibility (not parody).

    “NO LIMIT” LARRY, HOST: North Carolina is a big state that has a lot of women when it comes to voter turnout. We think that the fellows don’t get out and vote enough. How can we get the fellows to the polls?

    PRESIDENT OBAMA: Yeah, why is that? Brothers need to take the responsibilities on this thing a little bit more seriously, because, look, I know there are a lot of strong men out there who care about their kids. Well, their kids are not going to get the same opportunities as other kids if they don’t have somebody like Kay Hagan who is championing school funding. You know, there are a lot of men out there who want to see their kids go to college, but it’s tough affording college. And right now you’ve got a Congress that wants to make it harder for folks to get student loans that are cheap. Kay Hagan wants to lower the cost of student loans to go to school.

    Curle

    November 4, 2014 at 10:04 PM

    • Prison inmates and convicted felons can’t vote.

      E. Rekshun

      November 5, 2014 at 12:52 AM

  14. Voting is for deluded folks.

    MyTwoCents

    November 5, 2014 at 4:32 AM

  15. And the theory about the fact that républicans couldn’t win an election any more beacause of Nams ?

    Bruno from paris

    November 5, 2014 at 7:22 AM

  16. I just heard obama insult the voters by calling them “restless and impatient” and that’s why the democrats had such bad results on Nov. 4th.

    E. Rekshun

    November 5, 2014 at 4:36 PM

  17. You don’t do absentee voting?

    There’s always ballot measures and district races which you can punch for or against.

    I’ve never been a fan of going to the actual polling place.

    L

    November 5, 2014 at 11:45 PM


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