Brainless (ok, uneducated) Obama campaign volunteers..

[draggar]

Today I was approched by some Obamites (supporters of Obama) telling me that I should vote for Obama and that I need to vote for Obama. OK, I’ve had enough, time to take off the gloves.

I told them, rather politely, that this is a public election and they have no right to tell me how to vote and by telling me how to vote they are trying to manipulate me out of my constitutional rights. If they’d like, I can report their actions to their campaign office about this.

Next, I asked them how many candidates for president were there on our county ballot? This is NOT a trick question. Weeks ago I got a sample ballot and I recently voted (early). Both insisted that there were only two candidates on the ballot - Obama and McCain. Guess what? WRONG!
There are THIRTEEN candidates on our ballot!

Yes, that is thirteen candidates meaning that they did not know about 11, or roughly 84% of the candidates. So then I asked them how can they tell me how to vote for one candidate when they didn’t even know about the vast majority of candidates? Their answer horrified me.

“You shouldn’t vote for them because they’re not serious candidates and they won’t win”.

WHAT????

So, what you’re saying is that no one expected the Dolphins to win the Superbowl this year so they’re not a serious team? No expected the Marlins to win the World Series so does that make them not a serious team?

My god, what has our "election" process (and I use the phrase loosely now) become??

How can people follow one candidate so strongly when they don't even know about the existence the competition (other than the other one we hear about all of the time)? I have to say, the Obama campaign volunteers have annoyed me more this year than any other campaign in the past.

[Devil Dog]

The Dolphins?

[biggedon]

Today I was approched by some Obamites (supporters of Obama) telling me that I should vote for Obama and that I need to vote for Obama. OK, I’ve had enough, time to take off the gloves.

I told them, rather politely, that this is a public election and they have no right to tell me how to vote and by telling me how to vote they are trying to manipulate me out of my constitutional rights. If they’d like, I can report their actions to their campaign office about this.

Next, I asked them how many candidates for president were there on our county ballot? This is NOT a trick question. Weeks ago I got a sample ballot and I recently voted (early). Both insisted that there were only two candidates on the ballot - Obama and McCain. Guess what? WRONG!
There are THIRTEEN candidates on our ballot!

Yes, that is thirteen candidates meaning that they did not know about 11, or roughly 84% of the candidates. So then I asked them how can they tell me how to vote for one candidate when they didn’t even know about the vast majority of candidates? Their answer horrified me.

“You shouldn’t vote for them because they’re not serious candidates and they won’t win”.

WHAT????

So, what you’re saying is that no one expected the Dolphins to win the Superbowl this year so they’re not a serious team? No expected the Marlins to win the World Series so does that make them not a serious team?

My god, what has our "election" process (and I use the phrase loosely now) become??

How can people follow one candidate so strongly when they don't even know about the existence the competition (other than the other one we hear about all of the time)? I have to say, the Obama campaign volunteers have annoyed me more this year than any other campaign in the past.

using the sports scenerio


in the world series there are only two teams, both have a chance to win

same in this election, it's down to the world series and both have a chance to win


no sense talking about the runner-ups now is it?

and can you remember all of them, without looking it up?


if any of the others on the ballot like ron paul and others really had a chance, then we'd be talking about them

and since they are only on a few ballots in certain states, then the only mention of them will be if they took some votes from mccain.

imo....