My record at the polls -- not so great
With my track record at the polls, you'd think I'd just get the pretense over with, hire a dominatrix, and get my abuse the old-fashioned way: with whips and ball-gags. But no, I tried my hand at another election cycle, and look what I have to show for it.
OK, I didn't expect Bob Barr to win, but I was hoping for a vote total that could credibly be said to exceed that attributable to simple statistical error. He pulled 0.6% in Arizona and something rather less nationally. All because of the oh-so attractive candidates put forward by the major parties, I'm sure.
My congressional district (but certainly not me) is now represented by business-bashing, anti-immigrant, drug-warrior Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick. I already miss the corrupt, graft-hungry son of a bitch she replaces.
Prop. 100, which forbids new taxes on the sale or transfer of homes, was a bright spot. It passed with better than three-quarters of the vote.
Prop. 101, which would have blocked the government from imposing socialized medicine, failed by a heartbreakingly slim margin: 49.9% to 50.1%. That's less that 2,200 votes out of 1.7 million total.
Prop. 102, the repulsive "Arizona doesn't like queers" measure, passed with 56.5% of the vote.
Prop. 201, a scam to turn every home sale into a legal free-for-all, thankfully failed with 77% against.
And state legislators won't get a raise, since Prop. 300 went down to easy defeat.
I'm happy to say that the campaign season is now over, and I can get back to the important business of bashing politicians and government officials without worrying about electoral outcomes.
OK, I didn't expect Bob Barr to win, but I was hoping for a vote total that could credibly be said to exceed that attributable to simple statistical error. He pulled 0.6% in Arizona and something rather less nationally. All because of the oh-so attractive candidates put forward by the major parties, I'm sure.
My congressional district (but certainly not me) is now represented by business-bashing, anti-immigrant, drug-warrior Democrat Ann Kirkpatrick. I already miss the corrupt, graft-hungry son of a bitch she replaces.
Prop. 100, which forbids new taxes on the sale or transfer of homes, was a bright spot. It passed with better than three-quarters of the vote.
Prop. 101, which would have blocked the government from imposing socialized medicine, failed by a heartbreakingly slim margin: 49.9% to 50.1%. That's less that 2,200 votes out of 1.7 million total.
Prop. 102, the repulsive "Arizona doesn't like queers" measure, passed with 56.5% of the vote.
Prop. 201, a scam to turn every home sale into a legal free-for-all, thankfully failed with 77% against.
And state legislators won't get a raise, since Prop. 300 went down to easy defeat.
I'm happy to say that the campaign season is now over, and I can get back to the important business of bashing politicians and government officials without worrying about electoral outcomes.
Labels: health care, hitched, popularity contest, render unto Caesar
posted by J.D. Tuccille at
12:45 PM
2 Comments:
My voting record is like yours. There ought to be away to make money with this. I can be almost certain that everyone I vote for will lose.
Wow. I expected Barr to at least beat Nader. Maybe the LP will see it as a wake up call and spend more time focusing on the local/state levels instead of trying to win "the big game".
M.S
Phoenix
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