Help, I'm Being Supressed!
My voice has been heard. But it was nearly not so.
I went to vote a moment ago (on my way to a local pizza parlor, actually), and saw two women standing outside the polling place. Both were in their 60s, I would say, and were holding, as people standing around outside polling places usually are, little stickers and cards and things.
One of them handed me one of said stickers. The second started to, but stopped, and asked me this:
"Are you a Democrat?"
I politely (with a hint of a grin, actually) reply "no." She then proceeds to hit me with her sticker-card thingies. My savage sticker-beating was accompanied by a "tsk" sound, if I recall correctly. It's so hard to remember specifics after a trauma.
In all seriousness, it was in jest, and I took it in the playful way it was probably (half) intended. That said, Punditish wonders just what these card-wielding crusaders hope to accomplish? Is anyone persuaded by these last-minute name-only advertisements? And aren't the types of people who might be unlikely enough to vote to begin with, let alone in the midterm elections?
This is not to say that I, as a littler Ish, did not once shiver uncontrollably handing out ads the day of the local County Commissioner race. But I tend to regard those sorts of events as a rite of a passage more than any genuine campaign tactic.
But I digress. I merely wish to warn other prospective voters: beware of the elderly Democratic activists and their adhesive projectiles.
» November 7th, 2006
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