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deltagirl79
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Sad political fact & clicky poll
deltagirl79
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I just saw on Slate.com that only 11% of voters under 30 turned out for yesterday's election. I'm just curious where the ladies of the bump fall in this.
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TTC#2 October 2011. June 2012 diagnosed with mild PCOS and both tubes blocked.
10/1/12 miracle BFP 11/12/12 missed m/c (9w2d), baby stopped growing at 7 weeks
1/16/13 BFP, EDD 9/27/13, m/c 1/19/13
2/12/13 BFP, EDD 10/25/13 Please stick little one
A stowaway on board! 
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Re: Sad political fact & clicky poll
I get that some people aren't into politics or follow what is happening/proposed in their area, I guess.. but I will never fully understand why someone wouldn't vote.
I just found out yesterday that my 32 year old sister has never voted and I just couldn't believe that.
It takes 10 mins to read up on your local candidates, and from the time we entered the building yesterday, DD and I were done in less than 10 minutes. Easy peasy.
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I turned 31 yesterday so I had to pick over 30
~Working Mom~Breastfeeding Mom~Cloth Diapering Mom~BLW Mom~
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Shawn and Larissa
LO #1 - Took 2 years and 2 IVFs ~ DX - severe MFI mild PCOS homozygous MTHFR (a1298c)
LO #2 - TTC 7 months, surprise spontaneous BFP!
DH and I both voted and are over 30. DH took E with him to drop off our ballots and E got my "I voted" sticker and wore it to daycare.
I have never understood why people don't vote. For my 18th bday I got to take the day off from school and went to register to vote. It is like a right of passage in my family.
smilelari = Happy Birthday!
And OP do you think that includes people like myself who voted via absentee ballot last month?
me too so I picked the 1st one
I voted, but I'm 34. I'm shocked voter turnout was THAT low for the under-30s.
There were an insane amount of people at my polling place yesterday. I had the boys with me and we were stuck in line for an hour and a half! (DH voted after work--which I'd wanted to avoid assuming lines would be much longer then--and was in and out in 15 minutes. :P )
I actually think this is a very good point! It's better than un-educated (about what they are voting for) people voting.
Happy Birthday SmileLari!!
Yeah, I think it means that total only 11% voted, at least that's how I read it.
TTC#2 October 2011. June 2012 diagnosed with mild PCOS and both tubes blocked.
10/1/12 miracle BFP 11/12/12 missed m/c (9w2d), baby stopped growing at 7 weeks
1/16/13 BFP, EDD 9/27/13, m/c 1/19/13
2/12/13 BFP, EDD 10/25/13 Please stick little one
A stowaway on board!
I don't care if someone chooses not to vote, but if you go that route you don't have the right to complain about things.
THIS! Women who came before us fought hard to get us the vote. IMHO, women have NO excuse not to vote. No voting = no griping.
Ditto!
Same here
I voted.
THIS!
While I agree to an extent, in our state, the gubernatorial race here is so close that a recount will have to happen. Which means more money spent. Maybe if more people voted, there would be a clear winner.
Me too!
I'm 31 on Sunday. What do I choose?????
FWIW, I did vote!
Thanks!
~Working Mom~Breastfeeding Mom~Cloth Diapering Mom~BLW Mom~
Blog - No Longer on the DL ~ The Man Cave
Shawn and Larissa
LO #1 - Took 2 years and 2 IVFs ~ DX - severe MFI mild PCOS homozygous MTHFR (a1298c)
LO #2 - TTC 7 months, surprise spontaneous BFP!
Women who came before me fought hard to give me the right to have a career. Does that mean I have no excuse to stay home with my kids?
I did vote.
I am under 30 and did not vote.
Maybe because most voters are waking up to the fact that both parties are controlled by the same global interests.
Oh puhhhlleeze. That is SO not the same thing.
So...don't even bother? Don't try to change anything, just accept it and let other people make the decisions for you?
I think it is. Complain about people being bad citizens for not voting, if you want, but not bad women. Women are no more obligated to vote than men.
I'm a special snowflake. I wanted to vote but my ballot disappeared. I admit that I procrastinated all the way to the last minute but when I went to fill out my ballot 15 minutes before the cutoff for drop off, the envelope was empty. My dh and I think that my dad screwed up his ballot (his envelope had been opened/resealed with tape) and used mine. Dad has Alzheimer's so I'm not really sure how accurate his answer would be if I asked him about it. My dh did get his ballot in the drop box in time.
Wow. Who peed in your Cheerios? I did not say women are "bad" if they did not vote. I said that IN MY OPINION I don't think women have an excuse not to vote since it was a hard fought right by women who came before us - and if women choose not to vote, they have no right to gripe. Defensive much?
The First Amendment says different! Anthony Downs has a lot of interesting things to say about the rationality of voting, if anyone is really interested. It's all a matter of your personal beliefs about the "civic duty" of voting, and there may be other ways of participating politically that will make a bigger difference.
DH and I have completely opposite political viewpoints. We just agreed that neither of us would vote since we'd just cancel each other out. But the political scientist in me has many reasons that it's okay not to vote!
Also it is very interesting to note that voting is VASTLY overreported. If you look at numbers from presidential elections, actual turnout usually hovers around 50%, but when you ask people whether they voted, over 80% say that they did.
People are ashamed that they didn't vote, but they still don't! It is a VERY interesting issue.
In Australia, voting is compulsory, and turnout is well over 90%. There are so many reasons why voter turnout is low in the U.S. - don't get me started or I'd have to write pages!
LOL. I think the defensive one here is you. I would say that if anyone chooses not to vote, they have no right to gripe. But fortunately, because we live in America, no one needs to provide you or anyone else with an excuse for why they choose not to participate.
I don't buy this "you didn't vote you can't complain" argument either. If you have no faith in the political system in your country, feel that voting is not legitimate or skewed, or don't vote simply because you don't like either party running, that doesn't mean you don't have an opinion or right to say you are unhappy with how your country is run.
I didn't vote. I'll sacrifice myself here on the bump altar. I refuse to vote for a candidate unless I completely and totally believe in them. I have voted in the past and my candidate did not win. When someone runs that I truly believe is honest, and will make a difference then I will probably vote again. I refuse to vote for the lesser of two evils so to speak.
I also believe that voting doesn't matter. Gore won the popular vote over Bush and look who got into office. Thats when I completely lost full faith in the voting system. I don't give a fat rats a$$ about "Electoral votes" This country is supposed to be a democracy, where people vote on who they want to lead them. Gore won with 50,999,897 votes, Bush had 50,456,002. The people chose and got screwed anyway.
Voting is a right, not a mandatory responsibility. If you don't vote, so be it.