Election official Roger Miller helps Phil Barber, both of Des Moines' south side, place his ballot into the ballot box correctly on election day at Southview Manor in Des Moines Tuesday November 4, 2008.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Uncle Roger
Election official Roger Miller helps Phil Barber, both of Des Moines' south side, place his ballot into the ballot box correctly on election day at Southview Manor in Des Moines Tuesday November 4, 2008.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
ELECTION DAY
I just voted this morning. Then I took my mom back to register and vote (we are able to same-day register in Iowa). She wasn't showing up on the online list, so I was told she had to fill out a new registration. I arrived at the Cavalry Baptist Church, our polling center, about 9:20am. No wait; filled out the information slip, took it to the next table to be checked off the list and given a ballot; went to my "secret booth" to fill in the circles, and fed it in the optical scanner. Took less than 10 minutes, and I was voter #340. Went home, got my mom ready; took her back; they sat her down, we filled out the forms, went to the "secret booth", and she put her own ballot through the scanner; #452.
What is striking is that for both my mother and I to vote (including her registering and voting) we were in the polling place no more than 25 minutes total, between the two trips. I would gladly have waited an hour each time if it allowed the folks waiting 4,6, even 9 hours to also only have to wait an hour. What were your experiences? Please use the "comments" link below to share; I will be posting all that are emailed directly to me, also.
WE ARE MAKING HISTORY TODAY!
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Palintology.
The hope that Democrats would so want a woman in the Executive Branch backfired,
and the photos show someone very out of place with the caliber to people she is expected to be a peer to.
However, a large percentage of the fundamentalist socially conservative GOP base has not abandoned Sarah Palin. Now that she is being almost universally attacked in the media; they are likely becoming more ferociously protective.
Why? For Democrats, it is baffling; not only the appeal of Palin, but how anyone could even consider voting Republican.
Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia associate professor of moral psychology, published an essay recently entitled, "What Makes People Vote Republican?" which shows some compelling arguments about how liberals miss the boat in connecting with non-liberals. He points out that conservatives can understand how liberals think, they just don't agree with many of their beliefs. But liberals just can't understand many conservative points of view.
He also links to www.YourMorals.org, which is a very interesting set of quizzes about morality, beliefs, political views, social issues, etc.
and the photos show someone very out of place with the caliber to people she is expected to be a peer to.
However, a large percentage of the fundamentalist socially conservative GOP base has not abandoned Sarah Palin. Now that she is being almost universally attacked in the media; they are likely becoming more ferociously protective.
Why? For Democrats, it is baffling; not only the appeal of Palin, but how anyone could even consider voting Republican.
Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia associate professor of moral psychology, published an essay recently entitled, "What Makes People Vote Republican?" which shows some compelling arguments about how liberals miss the boat in connecting with non-liberals. He points out that conservatives can understand how liberals think, they just don't agree with many of their beliefs. But liberals just can't understand many conservative points of view.
He also links to www.YourMorals.org, which is a very interesting set of quizzes about morality, beliefs, political views, social issues, etc.
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