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November 07, 2006

GO VOTE!!!

Although you might want to watch out if it's an easily-hackable Diebold machine - just one reason why I think the fix is in.

TODAY'S STRIP

Odds are Scott Stantis had no idea how appropriate today's Prickly City would be on election day.

While Winslow tries to encourage everyone to vote, Carmen is as annoying as possible to keep him from getting his message out and keep people from voting.

In related news, the Republican National Congressional Committee has paid for "robo-calls" to happen all across the country. What are robo-calls, you ask? It's an automated dialing programming that calls someone - here people living in hotly contested districts - and starts with a line like, "This call is about Democratic candidate _______." Then it either tells you something about the candidate, or nothing at all. That's it.

However, the robo-dialer continues to call that person. Over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And ov - you get the idea. In one case as many as EIGHTEEN TIMES in one night. So by the end of the day, the last thing you want to do is vote for this damn Democrat that keeps calling your house.

The catch of course is that the Democrat didn't pay for those calls. Instead it's yet another Republican dirty trick. Maybe this is their "October Surprise" - annoy as many people as possible so they either don't vote or vote for the Republican out of spite. Way to win an election on your policies, Republicans.

This isn't isolated to one area either. So far their are reports of these robo-calls in:

Pennsylvania
Kansas
New Hampshire
Connecticut
New York

Aw hell - let's just say they're doing it in 53 competitive Congressional districts. Keith Olbermann has more.*

(*A side note on Keith. All weekend long MSNBC has been running special "Campaign Coverage" all day and all night. Who's the only anchor who hasn't been allowed to be a part of it? You guessed it - the only one who could come close to being considered not-Republican. Tucker Carlson, Joe Scarborough, and Chris Matthews? All over the place. No Olbermann. Yup, it sure is a "liberal" media.)

Tell you what - why not just keep an eye on the Talking Points Memo website today. Sure it's a left-leaning site, but haven't you noticed that it's the Democrats that are always the victims of these annoying dirty tricks?

Don't let the tricks get to you. Go vote. It doesn't matter which candidate you choose (see how I avoided the who/whom debate?), but go and have your voice heard. Obviously I think you should vote for Democrats - I can't imagine why anyone would vote Republican. In fact, if you're a Republican reading this please use the comments section to tell me POSITIVE reasons why I should vote Red. Don't give me the whole "Dems are weak on national security" and "Dems will raise my taxes" - I want good stuff about the Republicans that isn't easily smacked down. Because so far this campaign I haven't heard anything positive about the Republicans. Maybe because there isn't anything - and that's why I'm voting for Democrats. At least they want to stop oil companies from getting tax breaks and actually do things like protect our ports and do something other than "stay the course" in Iraq.

The choice is yours - now go make it. Get out there and vote. Otherwise you won't have the right to bitch about things when they suck worse than ever over the next two years if the Republicans maintain their "mandate."

Comments

Posted by: Sacki at November 7, 2006 10:28 AM

Posted by: The Furnace at November 7, 2006 11:18 AM

Posted by: Sacki at November 7, 2006 04:14 PM

Posted by: The Furnace at November 7, 2006 09:01 PM