It’s Primary Election Day, Go Vote!

1. Why bother? Hillary was just “announced” the winner (great timing, right before several States vote- nothing to see here, move along little people…), and Trump already locked it up.

   So… while I was looking forward to voting, I won’t waste my time.

   Thanks Associated Press for saving me the time!!!

2. Who am I voting for? No one. I decided long before the Associated Press declared Hillary the Democratic nominee and even long before Trump became the presumptive Republican nominee that, since my candidate dropped out (I won’t say whom or which party), whomever I voted for, I’d be settling for second best. And in vain. I don’t like the Donald or the Hillary, so I’ll go third party in November if they are in fact the major-party nominees.

3. I guarantee you this: it won’t be Trump vs. Hillary come November. Mark my words.

4. As long as obscene amounts of money go sloshing through the election process, democracy will be gravely compromised. The natural outcome will, instead, be a government appointed by the wealthy.

5. “Thanks Associated Press for saving me the time!!!”

   —So, had the AP not reported the story, you’d be voting today? That’s what you are going with?

   Nonsense.

   Do you believe the AP’s numbers are incorrect? Then your vote matters. Do you believe the AP’s numbers are correct? Then they were correct regardless of whether they were reported or not, and should have no bearing on your decision to vote.

   You weren’t going to vote either way, Perfesser. If you can’t be honest using a fake name, then what’s the point?

6. Completely agree STQ. The larger issue though is a thoroughly uninformed electorate. Poll after poll shows most don’t know such things as who the speaker of the house is, how many senators there are, how many votes are needed to end a filibuster, who writes law and how it is created, etc, etc, etc.

   Democracy can’t work when the electorate is willfully negligent, dangerously ignorant and willing to vote blindly or worse vote in opposition of their own interests.

7. What’s really disturbing is how many people here in town didn’t realize you can vote in a primary, even if you are not a member of the GOP or the Democratic Party. Independents and those not affiliated with a political party can register instantly at their polling place. So what are you waiting for!

8. @ jcunningham, sorry pal, I vote in every election. But thanks for figuring out my thinking for me– you must be a Democrat since you seem so quick to want to tell me what to do. But no. I was looking forward to casting a vote on a day that might be seen as the date on which the primary numbers made it possible for the first woman in American history to win the Presidential nomination for a major party.

   Instead, the AP called it 36 hours before I, along with residents of several other States, got the chance to cast our ballots.

   Plainly, since you seem to have difficulty understanding: The AP decided to make an announcement that could have been made weeks ago– even though their new “count” is b/s because “Superdelegates” can STILL change their vote.

   So the AP announcement is ultimately unimportant– except for the perception of inevitability that Ms. Clinton MUST have from her supporters in the media. And giving her a great excuse for losing California if that happens (“I wish the AP didn’t make that announcement, because many of my supporters didn’t bother to vote…”)

   So….. Yes….. Thanks AP!!

9. @ Spiro T. Quayle The money argument is a joke. Obama had many “small” donors and went against a much more well financed opponent in Hillary Clinton.

   Money didn’t matter. Ideas and a candidate matter more.

   Remember all that Repub money- Karl Rove’s American Crossroads raised almost a billion dollars and…….. lost most of their races.

   Money helps, but you need an idea (“Hope & Change”) and a candidate to win. Hell, Obama proved that a great, new message by a charismatic candidate can even elect a member of racial minority.

   Putting his idiocy aside, even Trump has proved this point. With almost no money invested he beat up on the other Repub nominees– Bush in particular had a ton of money, and lost. Because he had no message and was a terrible candidate.

   I believe this will be Trumps electoral legacy, along with Sanders, that using modern tech, having a simple message, coming from an authentic voice, can get you more votes than money. So while Clinton is in the pocket of Wall Street, she had the good fortune of going up against a Socialist. So using her as proof that money matters doesn’t show much.

   It’s foolish and wrong to suggest that “all this money” makes elections unfair.

10. Thanks for the good news, Prof. Nice to know that Sheldon Adelson’s imminent bankrolling of the Trump scam will amount to nothing, according to your harrumphing and surmising. We’ll be building crumbling infrastructure on the Occupied West Bank long before we build it in West New York.

11. Money does matter, if Bernie was able to raise more perhaps he could have purchased suits that fit him. I think this would have won him the nomination.

12. I needed that laugh above that is pure double speak. I’m not sure how someone can not waste their time voting and yet vote in every election but I’d pay money to see the rest of that magic act. And I thought Copperfield had talent as slight of hand.

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