You're lucky, Takeda; as I mentioned before, here in California, neither party or candidate is bothering to do anything other than fundraising. If it weren't for the satewide and local contests and issues, you wouldn't even know there really was an election upcoming...

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I suppose that makes sense. Although Pennsylvania isn't all that 'in play' (I think it seems that it is going to Obama), California always seems perpetually blue, if you will. While there is not a whole lot of campaigning going on here relative to places like Ohio, it is probably more than what you are seeing in California. I can understand people not being motivated to vote.

It could be worse...

You could live in Las Vegas:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/us...pagewanted=all

73,000?! Holy crap. I mean, I agree that every vote is important, but that many ads for 6 electoral votes?

Not shame, more enforcing the law. In some states (I don't believe HI is one of them) in order for a vote to count, the citizen must be a registered voter on the day of the election.

South Dakota and Wisconsin are two such states that I can recall off hand.

We are still the United States of America and hence each of our states has different laws concerning elections.

The only problem I have with that is the electoral system as it affects small States like mine. I might agree with that old cliche if they only had a box that says None Of The Above.

I'll be writing in my preference yet again. I vote for who I want, not for the lesser of however many evils.

They say if I don't vote I can't complain. Now you say if I do vote I can't complain.

Everybody keeps telling me what I must do, and I don't believe any of you.

I'm going to vote, then complain about how long I had to stand in line. If whomever I vote for doesn't win, I'm going to complain about that for the next 4 years.:yeah: