Pages Tagged “Local Elections”
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- Don’t Like the National Candidates? Vote in the Smaller Elections Too
So you don’t like the candidates in national elections? Vote in the primaries. You don’t like the primary choices either? Vote in the state-level and midterm elections. You don’t like the midterm choices? Vote in your local elections. National candidates don’t appear out of thin air. They start locally and climb up. And those local […]
- (Almost) Forgotten Election
Before: Totally forgot about the special election today. No biggie, the lines will probably be nonexistent even in the evening. After: Basically no line, but there were a few people voting. The polling place volunteers were playing poker to pass the time between voters.
- Sending the Wrong Message?
I figured I’d wait until after the election to post this one. Insert your own joke about renting politicians. (Sorry about the image quality; it was across an intersection, so it was pretty small on the original image. I didn’t even resize it. It’s just cropped. Yeah, my camera isn’t that fantastic once you get […]
- I Voted for Kodos
No comment on the candidate, since I don’t live in the city, just… is anyone else reminded of these guys? Image from The Duff Brewery. [edit: no longer online] Incidentally, while looking for a page on “Citizen Kang,” I discovered that “I Voted for Kodos” is also the name of a band.
- Campaign Camp
Now that the election is done, here are some of the campaign signs we saw that elicited some unintended laughter. I couldn’t decide between two captions: “But I did not hunt the deputy…” and “I didn’t think they were in season.” This isn’t funny on its own, but coming right off the Lost season finale, […]
- Interesting write-in candidates
On the same corner where a few weeks ago someone had placed “Atomic X For Governor” signs, Katie and I saw a new parody. There’s a candidate in a local election named Brett Floyd, and someone had gotten neon pink cardboard and written up a “Vote Pink Floyd” sign. For once we actually had a […]