"Register now"? I live in New York. Kerry's got this state by ten points whether I spend Election Day voting, jerking off, or doing some combination thereof.

If I'm registered, you can too. I'm in the same dopey liberal state you are.

Everybody has those kind of excuses.

We need Allah, Who is Wise But Occasionally Lazy About Voting, to set a good example.

You can follow Michael Moore's example and register to vote in a swing state.

You know Ace, I used to wonder how any right-winger could blog as frothing-at-the-mouth enraged as I get on a daily basis with anyone unfortunate to be near me (siblings, friends, SO's, the cat ... whoever) when I happen to read about some fresh idiocy being perpetrated by the Left in general and Leftists in my hometown in particular.

Now I know. Another New Yorker in the same boat as me!

Well...I suppose with you, me, and Allah, Bush can count on 3 votes from here.

More seriously, am I the only New Yorker who is utterly disgusted by this town's largely anti-Bush, anti-war attitude ... because this city ought to know better than just about any other place on earth just what the stakes are?

Meh. I'll return to my cave.

Did she do that "psssshhhht" thing while swirling her hand from the wrist?

Well, if you think about it...if all the Bush supporters in all the liberal states go ahead and vote, we won't have Kerry claiming to have won the meaningless national popular vote when Bush takes the electoral college.

So vote anyway, even if you think it's pointless in your liberal state. If this had happened in 2000, Gore's people wouldn't be able to go around claiming he was the "real winner".

I'm in the same car bomb as Allah, living in the state that actually elected Hillary Clinton, a non-New Yorker, for Senator. Anyway, come election night I'll probably [98%] be voting for Bush, unless I'm piss-drunk and pull the lever for Libertarian crackpot Badnarik. To fight radical Islam, sometimes you just have to pit their craziest against yours:

"The day I enter the Oval Office, I will give notice to the United Nations. Member nations would have one week to evacuate their offices in the UN building in New York. They would have seven days to box up their computers, their paper work, and family photos. At noon on the eighth day, after ensuring that the building was empty, I would personally detonate the explosive charges that would reduce the building to rubble. The same type of rubble we had to clean up after September 11th."

~ Michael Badnarik

Rudejelly - you beat me to the point!

I live in NYC, and even though I know the electoral votes of my state will probably go to John Freakshow Kerry, I'm going to do everything I can to help increase the national popular vote for Bush.

Does anyone doubt that THK's "What's that?" reaction upon seeing chili for the first time would not have made the front page of NYT if the statement had been uttered by Nancy Reagan?

It's vital for anyone with intelligence to acknowledge mistakes.

Rather than for anyone with intelligence to insist, "I didn't say that. I didn't say that."

Especially when it happened a few minutes before and was caught on film.

Oops for got to say...

"Hello?"

Not Evita-- Isabella. When Peron returned to Argentina in the 1970s and got himself elected president, he put his second wife, a ditz actress, on the ticket as VP. An old man, he died in office she actually succeeded him, for a while anyway. President Isabella Peron was eventually replaced the old fashioned Argentine way-- by an Army coup.

Terror Alert level raised to orange? What-EVER.

I agree, we right-thinking New Yorkers should still vote for Bush, if just for the popular tally.
Also, explain the electoral system to any idiotarians you know and suggest they vote for Nader, since New York is a lock and they should at least make a statement.

My husband and I both registered and are voting (likely a lost cause) here in Connecticut.

I just keep reminding myself that even a liberal state like Connecticut has gone to Republicans more than once.

We had enough sense to vote for Reagan after all...and if memory serves, so did NY.

He won 48 states in 1984 right? What were the two he lost? I think Maryland was one of them....

Anyhoo. I don't think this is going to be such a closely contested election. The media is making the left seem larger and more potent than they really are.

The 2000 election was close because Gore was much more of a known quantity than Bush, we were content with the economy while Clinton in the White House, and it was a relatively quiet time in our history. Terrorism was not a top of mind issue.

Bush 04. Comfortably.