Seriously, if you can, vote early. Even if there’s a line. It’s only going to get worse from here on out, because rest assured that if you’re the sort of person that a) reads this blog and b) just so happens to live in a district where voting machines just so happen to be scarce, the longer you wait, the more likely you will disenfranchised just by having no time to take off work to vote. More information here.
Leave a random 10 list in comments or leave your Genius mix. I’m doing Genius.
Original song: “Smiley Faces” by Gnarls Barkley
1) “Standing In The Way Of Control”—-The Gossip
2) “Dirty Harry”—-The Gorillaz
3) “Ooh La La”—-Goldfrapp
4) “Signal Fire”—-The Snow Patrol
5) “Flux”—-Bloc Party
6) “Bohemian Like You”—-The Dandy Warhols
7) “Our Velocity”—-Maximo Park
8) “Wolf Like Me”—-TV on the Radio
9) “Woman”—-Wolfmother
10) “Blue Monday”—-New Order
Videos under the fold.
Goldfrapp:
Goldfrapp ‘Oh La La’ from Realise Studio on Vimeo.
The Dandy Warhols:
The Dandy Warhols - The Legend of The Last of The Outlaw Truckers AKA: The Ballad of Sheriff Shorty from Mike Bruce on Vimeo.
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I early voted on Monday, the first day it was allowed here in TX. My boyfriend and I raced from home to the polls and were second to last in line.
It was very well worth it to get to go down the list and wish for the sound trouncing of each and every “R” on the list (even if all except one of them will win).
Now it’s just a matter of seeing about my parents. My father is leaning Obama He can’t stand McCain and likes Obama and, despite a lifetime of being a conservative Republican, is so disgusted with the whole situation that he’s taken a drastic economic leftward swing (while seeing the logic of social left issues as well, he is a Christian, and still struggles with that, I think). I think he will vote for Obama, and I don’t want to ask because I don’t want to get that far up in his kool-aid. My mom has swung leftward economically as well, but is, essentially, a single-issue voter, and that issue is abortion. I think that, had she seen the last debate, she just might have been able to vote for Obama, but I don’t think she was ready for that kind of change yet. I don’t think she’ll be convinced in time, and I don’t like pushing people.
Everyone else I know is pretty much voting for Obama, except for my helplessly Republican friends who still believe everything they were taught as kids (I am in my mid-twenties). It’s exciting. The line was so long to early-vote, and it looked like a pretty mixed demographic.
I think this will be an election to remember.
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