Being from the DC/NoVA region, I HATE politics.....and traffic. But as a gay man, I gotta vote Democrat. It's all awful though....

Oh, are you? I'm in Takoma, in NW DC.

Yessir. Born and raised in Fairfax/Loudoun. Currently at VCU as a Health Science grad. I love DC though, it's a pretty city. A few of my friends live there now, with their big-boy jobs.

Please don't say that...please?

Natch.

The world's going to explode or get eaten by a cosmic muffin in December, right? Why get all worked up about politics?

id vote for a third party if they even stood a chance :C

I'm voting for the Beach Party. Little umbrella drinks of FREEDOM

Protest Votes are Real Votes

thats a real dumb reason to not vote for someone

I didnt say i wouldnt vote!

I should've clarified, someone specifically, sorry

Hah, no I had my next round's candidate picked out about thirty seconds after the last one finished.

I got put into the position of finding that after decades of complaining about how we never elected a president who approached things a certain way, I finally got what I asked for. We may not see eye to eye on some things, but I've marveled at how he managed to pull of a good score of seemingly impossible things.

And of course, the media doesn't cover stuff like that, because everyone's caught up in the old-school narrative so firmly they can't see what's going on right in front of them. It's almost spooky at times.

What old-school narrative, exactly? And what way does he approach things?

A simplification of it would be 'you have to look like X and believe Y to get elected or get anything done'
Conventional political wisdom on steroids.

The stealth approach I believe I've noticed is the way he's challenging Bush era shenanigans where there were abuses of power and power grabs in the executive branch that are difficult to address within the current system. During the prior administration, there were positions taken supported by a lot of national security letter waving or simple "I'm the boss, do it this way' rules broaching that prove difficult to reverse without inviting lawsuits from those supporting the state things were left in 2008.

In most of the places where I'd been watching the shenanigans of the second Bush administration with little hope of change, I've noticed that instead of changing the rules, this administration embodies them, pushes them forward with a less histrionic defense. No national security letters where (one assumes) they weren't warranted, and when a settlement is offered, they take it. But then, I don't expect most people to notice - the average attention span for 'last administration committed quite a few egregious violations of law' seems to be quite small.

A lil bit yes. Attack ads are nice though, nothing better than a good all American mudfight.

Definitely not as fun as 2008. Now that was an interesting election year.

Problem is I like Obama but it's impossible for him to get anything done anymore. Maybe I should vote libertarian

Yes, much too boring! We need more scandals, dammit.

"B-b-b-b-but Solyndra! The Government Accountability Office? Fast and Furious!" <-- the GOP, to a resounding chorus of nobody giving a fuck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1s_U35nE6Q

There's my vote.

Don't vote Giant Douche, vote Turd Sandwich.

"Hey I'm in favor of creating jobs! But that won't stop me from taxing and spending and doing favors for my corporate cronies! That other guy though, HIS corporate cronies are a-holes."

Im going for OBAMA

It honestly has been very bleh. This feels like 2004 all over again. I've pretty much stayed away from the TV, ignored 90% of campaign emails, and reformatted what I follow on Twitter to reduce tweets that sat "X is at X rallying for X, watch here: idontcarejustleavemealoneuntilnovember.bitly"