PA Primary Team reports:
Taking a small break from the excellent coverage of last-minute campaining to note:
This weekend, the good people of Pennsylvania were subjected to an astonishing amount of politicking. Repeated robocalls (please, no more, we're crying uncle, "Obama for America"), solicitations outside every supermarket and on every streetcorner -- door-to-door campaigning through the neighborhoods. Whew. It's certainly hotter and heavier than it's been for a presidential election since -- when, exactly?
And let me just add: That's in a house with only one registered Democrat, if you know what I mean. What on earth could it be like in a two-Dem household?
If you are ready for the politicking to just be over and to get to the polls, here's a few resources:
*The League of Women Voters of Philadelphia has published its Voters Guide for the primary. It's just for the city races, but it's a great resource, with information on all the races -- not just that one at the top of the ballot.
*The Daily News offers up a Voter Survivor Guide for the primary, with links to all the voter information you need,
*The Committee of Seventy has a number of resources, including its interactive Polling Place locator. They'll also be monitoring the polls Tuesday.
Hang in there, everyone...it's almost done.
: Vote for Unity— Tanksleyd
I'm not sure of your state but the legions of itty bitty rabid college women (and they mostly were women) hawking the concept that their Dracula (remember Dracs. many wives) was better than the other Dracula got to be too much. I suggest that all future campaigns have no leafletting, no phone calls just reading a good and solid source of news (but where they would find that away from some "primary Team" is beyond me)— Paul Paulos- No, what we're really tired of is the vapid, shallow, gossipy method in which both of your newspapers have covered each of the candidates. I have seen 10 times as many "Obama bowls like a girl" and "Is Hillary's cackle satanic?" articles that substantive discussions of the candidates' positions. Y'all should be ashamed. And, no, providing information about where to vote does not count as a substantive blog item.— joeblow
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I'm tired of Ron Paul being ignored.— Hamlin- I'm tired of Ron Paul being ignored.— Hamlin
- Don't ignore Ron Paul, then. If he's your man, feel free to throw your vote away.— Mitchum
- ::With a Democrat congress, Democrat White House and a program that was initially wildly popular: Hillary failed to deliver Health Care in 1993.
- :;Going against core Democrat values everyone realized Hillary was trying to politically position herself and voted for Iraq. Most Democrats did not mind this deviation, at the time, as it was clear the GOP majority congress would deliver the vote for Bush anyway. At the time principles did not matter. Now Democrats need principle.
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