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Primary day
So, I happen to live in New Hampshire, which is holding its first-in-the-nation primary today, which means the state is currently in a civic-duty fervor. Also, overrun with news vans eager to hear ~Your Opinion on the Candidates!~ and take pictures of cute dogs. You know, to get some authentic local flavor.
I ended up voting in the Republican primary (NH independents can vote in primaries, although you have to re-declare your independent status after casting your vote or you will be re-assigned to the party you voted for) and it was, um, disappointing? Man, having been inundated with debates and candidates crashing diner brunches for months, I like to think I have a handle, of sorts, on these people, and pretty much all of them are stupid misogynistic racists. I was more than a little concerned that I would get to the voting booth, look at the ballot, and just start breathing fire.
Thankfully Jon Huntsman is neither stupid nor racist and an actual moderate - I don't approve of his anti-abortion stance or his civic-unions-but-not-marriage for GLBTs, but the rest of his policy ideas and views are reasonable and he's the only candidate that sounds genuine when he talks about bipartisanship. I was also impressed with the way he defended his work as the ambassador of China, and that he able to articulate a reasonable, complex stance regarding foreign policy (instead of an easy-to-remember, hollow soundbite). I voted for him so that hopefully, a win or strong showing will help knock out one of the truly horrible human beingsSantorum Gingrich out of the race. :/
There were also a ton of other candidates on the ballot who basically had the resources to get their names on the NH ballot (it's pretty cheap to get on it, as I recall, something like $150?) one of who I actually knew of, the excellently-titled "Vermin Supreme." He's for mandatory tooth-brushing, zombie apocalypse preparation and ponies for all Americans, and he was part of the group that ended up crashing a Newt Gingrich rally (or their headquarters, or something) last week. I really thought it might be a fun thing to throw away a vote for him, but then I decided to put it towards...something...useful, maybe?
OTHER PRIMARY THINGS: My brother and I have, like everyone in NH, been bombarded with political mail begging for donations in a variety of ways. Ron Paul sent a 'family cookbook' with a request for a) money and b) a recipe for their family cookbook that they were planning to send to other people as a gift, I guess. So we sent a donation of twenty Monopoly dollars and a recipe for 'beer-battered pizza' which we made up in about 5 minutes. It involves ordering a pizza, buying some beer and then eating the pizza and drinking the beer. IT'S VERY DELICIOUS!
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Tentative date for livejournal deletion: January 14th. I may just end up deleting all the journal entries there and stop crossposting, though - that way I can still comment on the few people and journals who aren't making the move to DW.
Just in case anyone cares. x_x
I ended up voting in the Republican primary (NH independents can vote in primaries, although you have to re-declare your independent status after casting your vote or you will be re-assigned to the party you voted for) and it was, um, disappointing? Man, having been inundated with debates and candidates crashing diner brunches for months, I like to think I have a handle, of sorts, on these people, and pretty much all of them are stupid misogynistic racists. I was more than a little concerned that I would get to the voting booth, look at the ballot, and just start breathing fire.
Thankfully Jon Huntsman is neither stupid nor racist and an actual moderate - I don't approve of his anti-abortion stance or his civic-unions-but-not-marriage for GLBTs, but the rest of his policy ideas and views are reasonable and he's the only candidate that sounds genuine when he talks about bipartisanship. I was also impressed with the way he defended his work as the ambassador of China, and that he able to articulate a reasonable, complex stance regarding foreign policy (instead of an easy-to-remember, hollow soundbite). I voted for him so that hopefully, a win or strong showing will help knock out one of the truly horrible human beings
There were also a ton of other candidates on the ballot who basically had the resources to get their names on the NH ballot (it's pretty cheap to get on it, as I recall, something like $150?) one of who I actually knew of, the excellently-titled "Vermin Supreme." He's for mandatory tooth-brushing, zombie apocalypse preparation and ponies for all Americans, and he was part of the group that ended up crashing a Newt Gingrich rally (or their headquarters, or something) last week. I really thought it might be a fun thing to throw away a vote for him, but then I decided to put it towards...something...useful, maybe?
OTHER PRIMARY THINGS: My brother and I have, like everyone in NH, been bombarded with political mail begging for donations in a variety of ways. Ron Paul sent a 'family cookbook' with a request for a) money and b) a recipe for their family cookbook that they were planning to send to other people as a gift, I guess. So we sent a donation of twenty Monopoly dollars and a recipe for 'beer-battered pizza' which we made up in about 5 minutes. It involves ordering a pizza, buying some beer and then eating the pizza and drinking the beer. IT'S VERY DELICIOUS!
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Tentative date for livejournal deletion: January 14th. I may just end up deleting all the journal entries there and stop crossposting, though - that way I can still comment on the few people and journals who aren't making the move to DW.
Just in case anyone cares. x_x
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(You could lock everything to private, on LJ? In case of emergency or something. Also if there's fanworks it might be nice to not delete it, for links and bookmarks not dying, etc. Even if you edit it so it's just a link to where-said-thing-is-now.)