LAT: No Voter Apathy This Time Around

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-passion5oct05,1,2732222,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

NORMAL, Ill. -- Ordinarily, neighbors here would no more discuss their political leanings than pass around their bankbooks. But this presidential election season is testing their famous Midwestern reserve.

Guy Hanna has planted not one handmade red, white and blue wooden elephant on his corner front lawn, but nine.

At the Democratic campaign office in Normal's quaint downtown, the waiting list for John F. Kerry signs last month was 500 long and growing.

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It is a similar picture across the United States, no matter whether the state is red, blue or battleground. With the nation at war, the electorate divided and the candidates in a bitter fight, voter enthusiasm is boiling over. The result has been both a refreshing jolt of grass-roots democracy and a deepening chasm of polarization.

[Cha]

1. Whoopee! Just think if it were a

National Holiday! Props to all the people who are getting out the vote!!

[USA_1]

2. Kerry-Edwards signs

I am not surprised to know that the waiting list for those signs is so long in that community.

Here in Minnesota, there are FAR more Kerry-Edwards signs than for their Resuckplican opponents.

The Democrats have a HUGE lead at present. The only way they can lose the election is if the vote count is rigged by the Diebold machines.

[murielm99]

5. I am in Ilinois, too.

The Kerry campaign is not spending much here, because they don't have to. This state is a lock for Kerry.

We got 300 more K/E signs at our county headquarters last Saturday. We had a waiting list, too. The signs were all gone by the end of the day. And I live in a predominantly repuke county.

[PartyPooper]

3. I met a British couple the other day. They're pissed at Blair.

I inquired further, "You mean Junior's lap dog?" "Yes", they said.

And, I told them half of America is pissed at *, too.

Let's hope the Bu$h gang get voted out on November 2! It will do wonders for the country and our international relations!

:bounce:

[neuvocat]

4. Yeah well thanks to the LAT people ended up not voting.

"Oh yeah, there's no difference between the two candidates so we're not endorsing either one."

I've never seen such self-importance played up as intellectual cynicism in my whole life.

[ozymandius]

6. For the first time, I display a campaign bumper sticker.

In this conservative area, it will be curious to see if my Kerry/Edwards sticker makes it until election day.

[ChrisK]

7. It's ashame that it takes an administration this wrong for people to ....

get involved, me included.

It's great to see people waking up to whats happening out there in our country but its sad that it has taken such a mess for it to happen.

For too long many of us have sat there waiting for someone else to fix the mess when all along we have had the power to do it but have ignored it and it has caused all the troubles we see today. I am very glad to be a part of helping to fix this mistake but I will always question(like some out there) why I didn't act sooner.

As for the ones still backing the current President...I assume they have something at stake here like money or a misguided idea of loyalty or too strong religions beliefs that are keeping them from seeing the truth but that will be for them to discover..I just hope for them that its not too late.