Vote, ya bastaads

[featherynscale]

As I'm sure you know if you've been out to vote this morning, the lines at the polls were pretty damned amazing. And if you're on the Blue side of the house, that's got to be good. They say Democrats benefit from high voter turnout, but Republicans don't. So I figure the best way to make everybody happy is for the Dems to go to the polls, and the GOP crowd to stay home :-P

Anyhow, if you haven't dragged it out to the voting booth yet, you ought to. It's going to be a *zoo* tonight. And I know that I don't have to tell anyone how important this election is.

Extra special fun, in Missouri there are actually Libertarian and Constitution party candidates for most of the contested races. That's exciting. I'm all for the development of third parties into viable political entities. The Libertarians, particularly, since I think that they could answer the needs of fiscal conservatives who aren't entranced with the GOP's unholy alliance with the Christian right. I don't mind the Libs - I skew way left on social issues, but hold pretty center in the economic dimension.

In other news, triadruid brought home his Condorcet voting experiment data today, so we get to play with that tonight, while we're drinking heavily waiting for the returns. Whee!

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Drunken Statistical Analysis and Observations on Political Process

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I don't know. I don't think we've ever done statistics while drunk. I think that was the state in which we wrote the church budget, which is close, but not quite the same thing.

(Just kidding about the church budget. Probably.)

Also, you kids in Ohio are having all the fun this year. Florida is the early leader in voting irregularity complaints, but most of them seem to be about long lines, which I hardly feel counts. It's all you guys now.