Politics and religion.

**RICHARD** · 07-28-2010, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by sparks19

this stupid thread... thanks a lot Ricahrd. there I sat in bed this morning for an hour thinking of all the words I could come up with that rhyme with Nantucket

time I could have spent sleeping lol

I thought everyone slept thru English Comp.....

**Grace** · 07-29-2010, 01:25 PM

Next Tuesday, August 3rd, is Primary Day here in Michigan. I really dislike the system here.

When you walk into the polling place, you have to declare a party in order to get the correct ballot. (This is only for the primary, of course. General elections you get all the names, and don't have to declare.) Anyway, that R or D gets hooked up with your name. Then the Party feels it can inundate you with robocalls, mailings, all manner of junk from now to the end of time.

There are only two people for whom I want to vote, and of course, one is R, the other is D. One woman is running for the State Senate; the other is running for County Commissioner. Not a single gubernatorial candidate appeals to me, nor do any of the candidates for Congress.

Douglas has a similar problem - not wanting to be labeled - and where are the Libertarians?

**Puckstop31** · 07-29-2010, 01:51 PM

Wow Grace... That is a late date for a primary. Ours was in April. I actually registered as a "R" for the first time in years because there was guberantorial candidate I really liked. He lost.

So, it will most likely be business as usual in PA. But on the bight side, they had a box on the form for "do not bug me" and so far, so good.

It would be on the state Libertarian party to organize a primary. Get on your local's to make it happen.

Any other states have primary's this late?

**Grace** · 07-29-2010, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by Puckstop31

Wow Grace... That is a late date for a primary. Ours was in April. I actually registered as a "R" for the first time in years because there was guberantorial candidate I really liked. He lost.

So, it will most likely be business as usual in PA. But on the bight side, they had a box on the form for "do not bug me" and so far, so good.

It would be on the state Libertarian party to organize a primary. Get on your local's to make it happen.

Any other states have primary's this late?

Far back as I can remember, the primary has always been in August.

I love the do not bug me thing, and I might just write it on my form. Lately, whenever I get a robocall, I call the candidate's office and politely request our number be removed from their data base. I also call the Party headquarters. Some candidates are better about it than others. I pretty much tell them if they really want me to consider voting for them, they will NOT call