Texas is a Red state, so will you vote? (Early: college, live in)

[little elmer]

It's a foregone conclusion that McCain will carry Texas, tradition has it; but this year may be different...

If you're supporting McCain, do you think you need to vote?

If you're supporing Obama, does he have a chance in Texas?

[love roses]

Of course you need to vote...no matter who you support. Even if it's not Obama or McCain. There are other choices, ya know

[awecelot]

Unfortunately, I am not going to vote this year. I would have to vote absentee, and I should have already sent in the paperwork to do that.

[ShaneSA]

Early voting starts Monday and goes until Oct. 31.
Happy Halloween

[dweej]

The opposite question could be posed in California- whether a conservative voter should bother voting because CA is a blue state. Heck yes! On principal, my friends, every person in America over the age of 18 needs to exercise their right, if only to show our gratitude that we live in a country that allows this freedom. And this goes doubly for women. Don't take all the work those suffragettes did for granted. Get involved in your world. Vote!

[Topaz]

I would vote even if my candidate had no chance of winning. It is an honor to have the privilege of voting.

[Delta Planter]

If one is entitled to vote, I think one should vote, whether the selected candidate wins or loses. If one doesn't vote by choice, what's the sense?

[ocean2026]

I will vote because I have friends running in local races. Unfortunately - if you look at polling breakdowns, the less educated you are the more likely you were to vote for Bush. Many of the deep red states are the ones with the lowest literacy rates.

For instance there are things I like about McCain although he has looked old and worn out during the last portion of the debates and during the bailout crisis- even the makeup couldn't hide it. I like Obama too - for the most part. Unfortunately if one reads the online comments in many of the Texas papers, 90% of the illiterates back McCain.

By the way I voted for Ron Paul.

[KantLockeMeIn]

I'm voting... and it'll be for Barr. I know I'm not wasting my vote because I'm voting for the person who is on the ballot (official or write-in) who I feel is best out of the bunch.

You bring up a point that I like to bring up. When most people try to say that I am wasting my vote, I remind them that a Democrat here in Texas is wasting their Presidential vote just as much as I am wasting my vote on a 3rd party or independent candidate. Or a Republican in MA, so on and so forth.

[bluescreen73]

I'll be voting even though I think the electoral college is completely passe in the electronic age. This isn't 1787 when information took weeks to disseminate. Time for the popular vote to decide who becomes president.