election

[cellio]

The polls were practically deserted when I went this morning on my way to work. There weren't even any campaigners out front -- just one guy from the Sierra Club with a petition. Weird. (My district -- or maybe my state, for all I know -- doesn't tell you what voter number you are for the day, like I've heard some places do. So we'll have to wait for the news reports to find out about turnout.) For better or worse, I've now done my small part to nudge the election in the direction I prefer. We'll see if it did any good later.

Over the weekend we got automated phone spam from Hillary and three of her supporters, all of it devoid of positive content. Yuck. We also got phone spam from the Obama campaign -- one succinct, positive message with a URL, either from an actual human or using much better recording technology than the Hillary campaign. So that's minus 4 points for Hillary and minus 0.5 points for Obama, more or less. (No, this didn't affect my vote.)

In the last few elections there's always been a bake sale at the polling place, run by kids. (I assume it's a fundraiser for their school. Now that I wrote this, though: are schools not in session today, or were these kids missing classes?) I try to support fundraisers where the kids themselves are doing the work (as opposed to when parents shill for their kids); I think it teaches good values. But I didn't expect this to work today. When they asked if I wanted any cookies I said "got anything that's kosher for Passover?", and they actually did! They had macaroons that they'd arranged to make in a kosher l'pesach kitchen. Cool. So I bought some. They are far from the best macaroons I've had, but they're ok and really, the cookies were secondary anyway. I strive to support with my dollars -- and my votes -- the behaviors I want to encourage, and withhold both in response to behaviors I find objectionable.

Comments

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

I was voter #1 at my ward (there was a line for the other ward when I arrived just before 7am).

I've been lucky and not gotten any spam calls (they're all for Kathy :).

[cellio]

I should have known that you would open the place up. :-)

Our spam calls haven't asked for specific people -- they just launch right in. Maybe it's different if you're home; these all came while we were away for Pesach, so the machine got 'em.

[alaricmacconnal.livejournal.com]

The live person messages have all asked specifically for Kathy.

The spam ones are for Kathy because they're from either Clinton or Obama (I'm registered Republican so they couldn't be for me :)