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You can't vote until you're 18 because that's when you're legally considered an adult. When you're a minor, you're sort of like your parent's property, so you have to hope they vote in your best interests as well. There's no kind of litmus test you can do to see who's a ******** moron, and who isn't, so they do it this way.

I'm voting Kerry. I don't even want to get into a deep discussion on politics because a)It'd take way to long for me to type out everything I feel, b)Most of you don't care anyhow... if you want to know how I feel about something, ask me. blaugh c) I don't want to seriously offend someone with what I say, because some you just might believe everything that the news spoonfeeds you. It amazes me how many people think that Saddam was behind the 9-11 attacks. and d) I am so ******** sick of all this politics bullshite, and I just want this election to be over. I'm sick of political junkmail. I'm sick of the phonecalls. I'm sick of the commercials, the mudslinging, the trashtalking. Both candidates are assholes, and I don't really like either one of them. But I don't like people that lie about seriously important thing like, oh, say, NUCLEAR WAR. And only one of the two hasn't lied about that yet, so I'm gonna go with him. That, and I'm more of a Democrat, regardless of this whole terror crap. Actually.. I'm more a Libertarian than anything else... like they'd ever get a candidate on the national ballot though.

*sigh*

Two-party system sux0rs.

Oh, and Nader's only on the ballot in 5 or 6 states I think. But please... don't vote for him. If he hadn't stolen so many votes from the Democrats in 2000, we wouldn't have to deal with the hick we have in office now.



... Yeah, that was longer than intended, and I probably offended someone in the process, anyhow... meh.

Kedian wishes to know who you voted for, even though I could just assume from the poll results that the majority (all 5!) voted for Kerry.

I didn't vote, for 2 reasons: a) I turned 18 like 3 days ago, and b) following the reasons in my previous post, it's not really of much consequence, is it? If I had voted, I would probably have voted for anyone but Kerry...'different' is *not* synonymous with 'better', despite what every young voter and their friend down the street thinks.

I think you're allowed to vote as long as you're 18 by Election Day. o_O ..I think.

See? This is why politics suck. They cause meteors to come out of the sky and kill people who just wanted to vote. crying So sad...

Good summation of Kerry's campaign. It's also rather infuriating how almost everyone my age seems to be so blinded by how all the celebrities (Michael Moore, pretty much every god damn modern rock band there is) hate Bush that they're following along. If people have good reasons for choosing Kerry over Bush, good on them, but if they're doing it because some fat documentarian zealot hates him, they shouldn't be voting at all. stare

I assume, of course, that my fellow Paladins all had good, politically-inclined reasons for voting how they did, if they did. A lot of other people I see, though, seem like they're acting in just the way I described above.

If Kerry doesn't win, I might lend some weight to all the rigged election rumors running around...I can only see so much, but it's seemed to me that things are in Kerry's favor.

Aw man.. gonk We're all going to have to move to Canada. (For everyone that lives in the US.. and doesn't want to go to war.. >>; )