Vote! (Obama)
November 4, 2008
If you are over 18, and haven’t voted absentee, stop reading this immediately and go vote, whether its for Obama or McCain (or Nader). If you have the right to vote, and don’t exercise it, you are spitting in the face of our ancestors who fought for this right.
Besides… you get a free Krispy Kreme Donut!
UPDATE: Congratulations Barack Obama. I’m sure you will make a great president.
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sometimes when you don’t vote and and thousands of others don’t vote with you it means something….=you want something better and you believe that this better thing is not on McCain or Obama…
Here’s the thing though: it will be Obama or McCain. You sitting home not voting will not result in neither being elected: one of them will win no matter what. Even if you hate both, you should choose the lesser of two evils, and vote for that person.
Mike, you should actually be promoting that he vote for the candidate he believes in, not the lesser of two evils. Lets try to remember folks, the lesser of two evils is still evil. Vote for a 3rd party if you don’t believe in the two major candidates, or write in a candidate that is able to be written in that you support. Voting does have its merits even though the electoral college will ultimately cast your vote for you…
Well, I didn’t vote–consider it a boycott–and Obama was elected just fine without me. In fact, I’m pretty sure if I’d showed up and voted for McCain, Obama would still have carried my state. So, uh, tell me again why it’s the most important thing in the world to come and vote in this dog-n-pony show?
Now, if this were the primary season, I might agree with you, but that’s a different topic. In fact, it’s a different blog. I come here to read about Apple!
Yes its an Apple blog, but Apple is affected by who the next country’s leader. Think of the 2000 election… a member of Apple’s board, Al Gore, was running for president!
Yes, your vote doesn’t matter. But its the principle behind it, for if everyone thought like you did, no one would vote. If everyone who didn’t vote had gone and voted, we might have seen a different outcome.
Personally, I feel the need for a revamped voting system. Absentee ballots are more my speed.
If everyone thought like I did, Ron Paul would be the president. If there’s one thing we can be sure of, we don’t all think alike. So my staying home was an individual decision, one that I knew wouldn’t make a difference.
I’ve voted in every major election–and nearly ever off-year election–since I was 18. That’s 22 years, sometimes multiple times a year for primaries, special elections, local crap, etc. This was the first time I deliberately stayed home, because I was tired of voting for people I didn’t believe in. (In fact those off-years I missed were because I was in limbo having moved, with no valid voter registration.)
I’d say I did my part in upholding the “principal,” and after two decades, I’m tired of the show. It’s interesting to note that in all those elections, my candidate won perhaps two or three times. For just about any office. And no, I wasn’t voting third-party: I was voting Republican, usually; or perhaps against the incumbent. I happen to live in Democratic areas, and we all know that voting out an incumbent is nearly impossible. So again, who needs me in their polling place.
As for how it affects Apple: who’s in office affects it a lot less than people believe, I think. IT is not a highly regulated industry, nor one that depends so much on government largess. If Apple depends so much on government policy to be profitable, there’s something pretty wrong with them–and that might be worth reporting on in an Apple blog.