Wed 6 Feb 2008
I was reading Wilco’s recent post about Super Tuesday and the primaries election (he actually has photos of the ballots when he went to go vote; if he took these himself I can’t believe they let you walk in with a camera), and it reminded me of a conversation I had with Dwaine a year ago in my living room.
Dwaine: Obama is not going to be elected.
Me: You think the country isn’t ready for a black president?
Dwaine: I think the country is more ready for a female president than a black president.
Me: Really!
Although Barack Obama won more states than Hillary Clinton yesterday, Hillary Clinton got the states with more delegates, which is more important in the big picture. One of these states is California. Damn it, damn it.
Despite my opinion about these two candidates and their neck-to-neck race to be front runner for the Democratic party, I was disheartened by the way Obama has presented himself to the average public voter. That thing when Hillary Clinton extended her hand to Obama for a handshake and Obama turned his back to her at the media-heavy State of the Union Address by President Bush on January 28, that was captured in photographs and talked about everywhere. Also, a local but widely-syndicated radio station, 102.7 KIIS FM on the morning show hosted by Ryan Seacrest, invited Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Mitt Romney to come on air the morning of Super Tuesday to address the sector of the public who listen to pop radio on weekday mornings. The only one who accepted the invitation and did address these voters was Hillary Clinton. Obama’s people said he was too busy to call the radio station.
*sigh*
I didn’t vote. EVer since the last two elections and all the BS, I thought, does my vote REALLY count? So I decided not to vote.
I gotta blog about this…
i didn’t see any signs that said that you couldn’t bring cameras into the voting booth. there were signs that clearly stated that you could not use phones or wear clothes or pins that advocated a candidate or prop.
with regards to the photography, i think the general rule is that so long as you don’t compromise the privacy of other voters and don’t get in their way, you’re ok.
i tried to find the rules for my county, but couldn’t find them anywhere.
I guess the funnier thing is not so much that you were allowed to take pictures, it’s that you would have a camera with you. It’s kinda like, “Only Mike.” haha.
that’s not true, i hear that almost all ron paul voters actually videotape their entire voting experience to make sure that their vote is recorded properly. =P
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
Oh wait, are you serious? Then that’s a little sad and a lot paranoid. Unless they’re right to suspect counting bias, in which case I’M sad and a little scared.
Obama came out on Power 106 that morning…you can check the website. They commented on how Hillary did not return their call later on in the broadcast (Yes I listen to all radio stations on my loooong drive downtown). I think Power has less listners than KIIS, so Mrs Clinton picked the right radio station.
Really! I did not know that. Yes, KIIS is a lot more mainstream, mostly because of Ryan Seacrest. That explains a lot, tho… The Super Tuesday stats out of CA are that the groups who voted for Obama are the better-educated, black, politically aware groups, and the groups who voted for Clinton were less-educated, Hispanic, and female.
Mike: camera or no camera.. how you do know it would have been your vote that was recorded improperly? you just proved that you voted for an individual but it doesn’t prove it was your vote that may or may not have been tampered with? but taking a camera in is good for the blog.. LOL.
I’m a republican that voted democrat in the last election… I’m seriously considering voting democrat again. I guess I should change my party!