Having an election day party? Here's a suggestion...

[omnithrope]

Don't let anyone in the door to the party unless they're wearing an "I Voted" sticker. (Unless, of course, like me, you have friends that aren't citizens. =)

Just a thought...
-omni

[AP]

1. Don't let anyone in who hasn't spent at least three hours phone banking

and driving people to the polls.

[omnithrope]

2. Well, here in TX, it's less of an issue...

... than if we were in a swing state. No matter how many people I drive to the polls Kerry will still lose.

I'd rather get drunk, frankly.

[AP]

3. Phone bank to Oklahoma.

[Vincardog]

9. Not true. We need every vote and Every ST ATE

[omnithrope]

10. you don't live in TX, do you? =)

nt

[Vincardog]

13. Yup and The Idiot Bush bought his Crawford Pig Ranch the day before Filing

For Governor. Quit Calling Him A TEXAN.

[frankly_fedup2]

4. My dad is 75 years old. We almost lost him a month or so ago

from congestive heart failure. He had to be placed on a respirator. I thought this time he was gone but he pulled through again. Anyway, he is now on home oxygen due to his heart and lung damage and has never gotten depressed.

My point is this. He has always helped drive people to the polls that do not have any transportion.

He is going to drive people to the polls this year too. He is a WWII Veteran. As soon as I turned 18, he made me go to the Registrars office the next day. Back then you had to go and take an oath. My father represents the best of America. Yeah, I know I'm prejudiced, but I can't help but brag on him.

[ArtVandaley]

8. I'm sorry, sounds like a brave guy

Let's hope that on Nov 2, another decisive American victory over facism will cheer him up!

[frankly_fedup2]

11. That's what I kept telling my mother (also 75) while he was in the . . .

ICU. I told her daddy wasn't going to die because there is no way he would miss this next election.

Back in 2000, I stopped at their house on election day. My dad happened to walk in during one of his breaks. We were watching election coverage and talking and my dad goes, "They better watch Florida." I asked him why and he just said, "They better watch Florida." Now he is not psychic (as far as I know), but he was saying this around 12 noon that day. Boy did he ever call that one.

My father's bad health hit him all in one year. In one year's time, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer. He then went through 8-1/2 weeks of radiation therapy an hour and a half away. I had to leave work everyday to drive him. Then he had a heart attack, had triple bypass surgery. Then (in the same year), he had a right carotid endarterectomy as well as a left. He also has abdominal aortic aneurysms that are staying small (thank the Good Lord). This was all five years ago. Then a month ago about 1 o'clock in the morning he calls me and says he cannot breathe. I ask him where my mother is and he says she was right there. I asked her if she had called 911 and she said no that dad felt she could drive him. My mother has not driven in over 30 years. Also, this was a night when Florida was being hit by that first or second worst hurricane and we were having flooding in Virginia (where we live). I told her do not drive him and that I would call 911 and me and my husband would meet them at the hospital. It was a long couple of days but we still have him with us and that is all that matters.

Thanks for the kind words too.

[frankly_fedup2]

5. My dad is 75 years old. We almost lost him a month or so ago

from congestive heart failure. He had to be placed on a respirator. I thought this time he was gone but he pulled through again. Anyway, he is now on home oxygen due to his heart and lung damage and has never gotten depressed.

My point is this. He has always helped drive people to the polls that do not have any transportion.

He is going to drive people to the polls this year too. He is a WWII Veteran. As soon as I turned 18, he made me go to the Registrars office the next day. Back then you had to go and take an oath. My father represents the best of America. Yeah, I know I'm prejudiced, but I can't help but brag on him.

[cmf]

6. Wouldn't work where I live

Most people I know vote absentee. Besides, would anyone who didn't vote even be interested in an election night party? If they're not interested enough to get off their butts and vote, do they really even care who wins?

[omnithrope]

7. I think you're missing the "party" part.

I'm talking a kegger, friend. I have a lot of friends that will vote for beer. (although I assume they're all voting already.)

[cmd]

12. The polls close at 7:30 in Ohio -before and after that I will be phoning

I'll be working the phones until the last poll closing in the the USA passes. At that point, maybe, if I have enough energy, I will party. To do any thing less would be to give up. I will not accept that. Get out and get involved.