0705 Eastern time. A beautiful morning outside my polling place – no cranks jumping up and down, only a scattering of DRUMPF and Van Hollen and Edwards and Harris and Douglas and Kathy Szeliga lawn signs. One BERNIE. No Hillary.
One guy in front of me, voted already, was on his way out with his huge landscapers truck. Just me inside with all the nice volunteer ladies. Took only 10 minutes or so to vote and it was the Old Fashioned Way, by filling in the SAT-style ovals and feeding the ballot into the scanner. Diebold Weeps. Got my Stickers and beat it. MD has a closed primary, so I couldn't register with the Great Old ones Party. This time. Sad!
A couple local ladies drove in the parking lot on my way out probably on their way to work too.
Lots of Drumpf and Republican House and Senate candidate signs on the highway in. There's a house off Rt. 50 – very visible – with a full size-by Gawd Confederate Stars 'N Bars flag run to the top of the flagpole right in front. The only flag. I'm sure he voted, too. Shaefer called it "The Shithouse side of Maryland" and I wonder if he had this sort of thing in mind.
I saw the "TRUMP" written in dirt on the back of that trailer just after the Confederate flag house. That means something.
Huge red CRUZ billboard on the mainland was surrounded by Drumpf yard signs, now is not. One lonely BERNIE sign is keeping watch.
One of those that spits out a receipt like an ATM? I've seen those. MD just had the Total Electronic Touch-Screen ones where all the votes ended up on a chip somewhere. Hard to believe they'd get rid of those babies.
Well, it spits out a receipt but it's behind a window. It lets you see it to check if it's right but it stays in the machine.
*squints at little slip of paper in the window* "What the…? Who's 'LIZARD PEOPLE?!' "
NV uses those, too. You get to see your choices scroll by on the register tape, behind glass, just out of reach.
So, your vote never counted, then? I've always only voted on a paper ballot. In MN, it was fill out the oval and slide the ballot into the optical scanner. In WI and AZ it's connect the line next to the candidate/proposition answer, optical scanner. And, always, STICKERS!
I've never trusted those voting machine thingamabobs (always used paper), but if they get ya a sticker, I'm inclined to change my mind. If the sticker has a kitten on it.
There was a time when "voting machines" were great big metal cabinets wheeled into the gym of my [elementary school] in Chicago and left against a wall there until election day. Not until I was old enough to vote in Denver did I learn that they opened up into the curtained mechanical vote tabulating booths where you pushed a lever down next to the name of the candidate you wanted to vote for. When you were done voting you moved a big lever to one side and that locked in your vote and drew the curtain back.
Those shitty little pin-pricker booths on fiberglass sticks cannot compare in lending gravitas to the democratic process.
California allows you to be a permanent absentee-ballot voter and of course that's what I do; one more civic community experience swept away. Progress! Get off my lawn!
NJ STILL has a lot of those mechanical thingies with the levers. Now, they have the same booths, but with the mechanical guts taken out and pushbuttons. (I am still registered in NJ because PA car registration costs a fortune.)
Making this the sticky, with a note that I am actually going to be gone for a good portion of the night. I won't be on until 10 or 11, so hopefully there will be good news when I'm back.
I also have another reason that Kasich hasn't dropped out! Most of his delegates are from Ohio, and Ohio GOP rules say that if the leader drops out, all of the delegates go to the second-place person. That would be Trump and would likely hand him the nomination.
It's always refreshing how comparatively civilized our primaries are, but this year I'm slightly worried the Cruzers and Drumpskies will try to poop all over our nice electoral processes in their mud fight for delegates.
MSNBC: polls somewhere in Baltimore will stay open at least 90 minutes after they were supposed to close because they opened late. Coffee before alcohol again!
Linda Reedy, a Laguna Niguel resident and member of We the People Rising, a group of Trump supporters, said anti-Trump protesters "goaded" her and her friends. When an unidentified man attacked a friend, Reedy said she tried to pull the stranger off and pepper spray stung her eyes.
"I just think they're so out of control," Reedy said, later pulling out a wet cloth to wipe her eyes. "I'm so sick of the anger in this country," she said.
OMG, I just realized I may be getting a one month respite from Trump-Cruz-Clinton-Sanders* ads. Woohoo! I expect to be deluged again once the conventions are over. Dumb of me to move to a swing state in an election year.
* I saw no Kasich ads. I assume he just personally texted people.
Well, if he sticks to the issues and talks about Wall Street that's fine. I have no problem with letting Bernie stay until everyone votes, so his supporters can vote their heart. It's when he starts attacking her personally that I have a problem with him.
"Months ago I said Rand Paul would get fewer votes than his father. Now I say Donald Trump will not win a single primary"
B Kristol 9 Aug 2015
scroll down a little bit for current replies. https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/6303364228…
In local news, Kate McGinty convincingly beat out Joe Sestak for the D spot on the PA Senate ticket. Don't know a whole lot about that race, but I was always pleasantly surprised by McGinty's ads — she ran as an unabashed lefty, and very much explicitly said she was all-in on Obama's agenda, including the ACA. So maybe that's a good sign?
0705 Eastern time. A beautiful morning outside my polling place – no cranks jumping up and down, only a scattering of DRUMPF and Van Hollen and Edwards and Harris and Douglas and Kathy Szeliga lawn signs. One BERNIE. No Hillary.
One guy in front of me, voted already, was on his way out with his huge landscapers truck. Just me inside with all the nice volunteer ladies. Took only 10 minutes or so to vote and it was the Old Fashioned Way, by filling in the SAT-style ovals and feeding the ballot into the scanner. Diebold Weeps. Got my Stickers and beat it. MD has a closed primary, so I couldn't register with the Great Old ones Party. This time. Sad!
A couple local ladies drove in the parking lot on my way out probably on their way to work too.
Lots of Drumpf and Republican House and Senate candidate signs on the highway in. There's a house off Rt. 50 – very visible – with a full size-by Gawd Confederate Stars 'N Bars flag run to the top of the flagpole right in front. The only flag. I'm sure he voted, too. Shaefer called it "The Shithouse side of Maryland" and I wonder if he had this sort of thing in mind.
I saw the "TRUMP" written in dirt on the back of that trailer just after the Confederate flag house. That means something.
Huge red CRUZ billboard on the mainland was surrounded by Drumpf yard signs, now is not. One lonely BERNIE sign is keeping watch.
Still no HILLARY signs.
Fun fact: I've never voted with a paper ballot. Only the computer ones.
Oh, you will.
Oh, wait…Ohio… uh…
At least it's the kind that has a paper trail.
One of those that spits out a receipt like an ATM? I've seen those. MD just had the Total Electronic Touch-Screen ones where all the votes ended up on a chip somewhere. Hard to believe they'd get rid of those babies.
Well, it spits out a receipt but it's behind a window. It lets you see it to check if it's right but it stays in the machine.
*squints at little slip of paper in the window* "What the…? Who's 'LIZARD PEOPLE?!' "
NV uses those, too. You get to see your choices scroll by on the register tape, behind glass, just out of reach.
So, your vote never counted, then? I've always only voted on a paper ballot. In MN, it was fill out the oval and slide the ballot into the optical scanner. In WI and AZ it's connect the line next to the candidate/proposition answer, optical scanner. And, always, STICKERS!
Don't worry, even machine voting gets you a sticker!
I've never trusted those voting machine thingamabobs (always used paper), but if they get ya a sticker, I'm inclined to change my mind. If the sticker has a kitten on it.
There was a time when "voting machines" were great big metal cabinets wheeled into the gym of my [elementary school] in Chicago and left against a wall there until election day. Not until I was old enough to vote in Denver did I learn that they opened up into the curtained mechanical vote tabulating booths where you pushed a lever down next to the name of the candidate you wanted to vote for. When you were done voting you moved a big lever to one side and that locked in your vote and drew the curtain back.
Those shitty little pin-pricker booths on fiberglass sticks cannot compare in lending gravitas to the democratic process.
California allows you to be a permanent absentee-ballot voter and of course that's what I do; one more civic community experience swept away. Progress! Get off my lawn!
Heck, when I first voted, we did it by placing a rock next to a name in the dirt.
You had rocks? Luxury!
They were small rocks.
NJ STILL has a lot of those mechanical thingies with the levers. Now, they have the same booths, but with the mechanical guts taken out and pushbuttons. (I am still registered in NJ because PA car registration costs a fortune.)
Was it the same both times you voted?
Also too excellent pic and excellent field report.
Making this the sticky, with a note that I am actually going to be gone for a good portion of the night. I won't be on until 10 or 11, so hopefully there will be good news when I'm back.
I also have another reason that Kasich hasn't dropped out! Most of his delegates are from Ohio, and Ohio GOP rules say that if the leader drops out, all of the delegates go to the second-place person. That would be Trump and would likely hand him the nomination.
Oh, too bad. It would be worth watching Kasich's public appearances after he did that ("How many shoes were thrown today?")
He might be banned from his own state if he drops out before the convention. I have a feeling some things in Columbus would be set on fire.
Of course, if he doesn't drop out and Trump falls just short, things will be set on fire in Cleveland instead.
So, have you decided how far away you will vacation during the Republican National Convention yet?
I'm worried that I may be too close.
I'm thinking 4000 miles. Is that far enough?
That should be fine, as long as the TV & Internet is off. Unless you're really drunk, then a few minutes won't hurt.
So many people overseas are bracing for a possible Trump victory that 4,000 miles may not be enough.
Oh. Well in that case, he should definitely stay just to
piss TehRump offlet the voice of the people be heard!Line up today's state abbreviations and it spells :DERIMD PACT .
Just sayin'…………….
Wait… Der Internationaler Meister Deutschland Pact?
CALL ALEX JONES STAT
WAKE UP SHEEPLE
ZOMG!!!!!!!!!!!
OT German word for the music playing thing called 'compound trill' —-zusammengesetztertriller
Wasn't the Zusammengesetztertriller Korps under Rommel in North Africa?
Metronomische Bezeichnungen!!!!
Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Zeitmaß!
Six weeks until the California primary, and I am already exhausted. Better start drinking more coffee, or something…
It's always refreshing how comparatively civilized our primaries are, but this year I'm slightly worried the Cruzers and Drumpskies will try to poop all over our nice electoral processes in their mud fight for delegates.
2012 was an outstanding year for Napa Cabernets. Just sayin.
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Where'e all the exit poll leaks? I can't wait another 54 minutes.
MSNBC: polls somewhere in Baltimore will stay open at least 90 minutes after they were supposed to close because they opened late. Coffee before alcohol again!
Might I suggest whipping up a batch of Old Bay potato chips to accompany that? http://www.hellawella.com/25-marylander-approved-…
| Dead Rise. | Accept no substitutes.
"Pair it with tables piled high with shrimp, corn, and Maryland Blue Crab."
Ohhh, Yeahhhh.
"Hillary has picked her Veep–Donald Trump!"
Um, Cruz honey? Don't quit your day job FFS…
He also called it a "basketball ring". I think Teddy may have some kind of neurological disorder making him aphasic.
Dafuq? Rachel just said RI closed 70% of their polling places. Oh yeah, that will turn out well…
Rain delays suck
Projections: Hillz wins MD; Drumpf wins PA, MD, and CT.
MSNBC: TehRump will be on in about 45 minutes. I was going to eat dinner then…
MSNBC: Delaware goes to Hillary and TehRump.
Drumpf wins all 5 Republican contests.
Reince Priebus Weeps
From the LA Times:
[Trump backers, critics clash, fire pepper spray outside Anaheim City Hall]:
Oh, the irony…
What was that you and CR were saying about the calm, classy California primaries?
We were referring to the ones on our side of the aisle.
NYT calls it a Trump sweep: 5 for 5, five states he definitely will lose in November.
PA's just been called for Hillz.
MSNBC project: Hillz gets PA. Well done, home state!
Hillz is speaking to the crowd in PA and they are WILD.
REALLY–MSNBC is rolling with Trump's goon over Hillary's speech? FUCK you…
…OK, that's better. Hillary is on!
| I'm listening, live. |
OMG, I just realized I may be getting a one month respite from Trump-Cruz-Clinton-Sanders* ads. Woohoo! I expect to be deluged again once the conventions are over. Dumb of me to move to a swing state in an election year.
* I saw no Kasich ads. I assume he just personally texted people.
Not [everyone.]
Sometimes Mr Trump has an "accident" when he speaks.
<img src="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2016/04/26/us/26live-trumpclean/26live-trumpclean-tmagArticle-v2.jpg" />
Ad for Aleve just before TehRump is supposed to speak. Smart, MSNBC, very smart.
Woah, almost forgot to bring these:
<img src="http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/D3F4/production/_89306245_trumpa5.jpg"/>
Sick bag: check.
Oh Christ, TehRump is on.
Drumpf strides to the podium with the sound system blaring the Stones' "Start Me Up"
You make a grown man cry,
You make a grown man cry
You make a grown man cry,
Does no one listen to the lyrics anymore?
it's the next line that is disturbing
*more* disturbing.
"I think Bernie should run as an independent"
Good to know that TehRump realizes that he can't beat Hillary on his own…
TehRump says he gave the money to the vets? [Guess again].
I'm half listening, I'm in an online class right now, can you guys catch me up? It looks like Trump swept and Hillz too?
TehRump swept, Hillz got PA/MD/DE, Bernie got RI, CT not called yet.
Oh wow. I sure hope Bernie stays in to the end. He needs to push Hillz to the left up to the last minute.
Well, if he sticks to the issues and talks about Wall Street that's fine. I have no problem with letting Bernie stay until everyone votes, so his supporters can vote their heart. It's when he starts attacking her personally that I have a problem with him.
That's true. His ad hominen attacks the past few weeks were really discouraging and seemed a little desperate and not at all presidential.
Reporter: TehRump, how are you going to fight back against "Love trumps hate?"
TehRump: Crooked Hillary sucks!
"I'll do far more for women than Hillary will"
<img src="https://media.giphy.com/media/7bUPZCjXdXU7m/giphy.gif">
<img src="http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s–OLBcUghe–/ad3hgvp2ixadlfwykaji.gif" />
Latest Cruzfail http://ftw.usatoday.com/2016/04/ted-cruz-basketba…
When he asked his accomplice to get out his tape measure, I instinctively winced.
"Months ago I said Rand Paul would get fewer votes than his father. Now I say Donald Trump will not win a single primary"
B Kristol 9 Aug 2015
scroll down a little bit for current replies. https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/6303364228…
Why is Bill Kristol still employed? #BAFFLING
In local news, Kate McGinty convincingly beat out Joe Sestak for the D spot on the PA Senate ticket. Don't know a whole lot about that race, but I was always pleasantly surprised by McGinty's ads — she ran as an unabashed lefty, and very much explicitly said she was all-in on Obama's agenda, including the ACA. So maybe that's a good sign?
Sleestak is still a thing?
Not anymore!
God grant me patience, and I want it RIGHT NOW!