Texas is a Red state, so will you vote? (Fort Hood: home, moving)

[Steel Man]

Originally Posted by 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.

Isn't that any oxymoron?

[Turnerliryc]

I am voting, but not for either of the major party canidates. My vote is going to Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party. Normally my vote would have gone to the Republican side but I just can't vote McCain and seeing how he'll probably win the State anyway it isn't going to matter.

[crbcrbrgv]

Originally Posted by little elmer

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

I agree with you on that point. I think people are discounting the frustation many Republicans in Texas are feeling with the current administration. And if ever there was a state where its citizens would write in a Ron Paul or a Bob Barr it is most certainly Texas. Polls show McCain up 12. It is going to be much closer than that. If he loses, it will be a shock at first. As we talk to neighbors and relatives after the election we will soon realize we should have seen this coming all along.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by Turnerliryc

I am voting, but not for either of the major party canidates. My vote is going to Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party. Normally my vote would have gone to the Republican side but I just can't vote McCain and seeing how he'll probably win the State anyway it isn't going to matter.

I no longer live in TX (I moved from Midland after 30 years there a year ago), and I feel the same frustration. I would love to see the Constitution Party up and running strong.

I have yet to see anything appear on the ballot other than the usual, plus a few Libertarian candidates.

The real problem is that a third-party vote does pull votes from McCain. McCain will most likely carry Texas, but I imagine Obama will get the overall win. I can't imagine how we got so bad off that those two are the only ones who have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. I just see McCain as much the lesser of the two evils. I just want to gag, but I went ahead and registered to vote here anyway.

God help us all. We lose either way.

[TexasHorseLady]

If you vote Democrat in a predominantly Republican state (or vice versa), your vote might not count.

If you don't vote because you're in either, your vote DEFINITELY won't count.

And things will never change because you sat down and gave up and didn't even vote.

[fierce_flawless]

Originally Posted by 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!

As a woman, nothing drives me crazier than women who don't vote! I guess my Grandma (born 1919) instilled that in me.

So yes, I will be voting, even if it is only "symbolic" (as a Texas Democrat), and my kids will go with me as they do every year, because we make it a little lesson in government each time they go with me to vote.

[FarNorthDallas]

Look at the local elections if you need a reason to vote in Texas. Dallas County voted Democrat last big election.

[edubya]

I'm still in Illinois, so I have to cast my McCain vote in a solid blue state. Illinois' electoral votes are going to Obama no matter what I do, but if every forlorn Republican in this state would go have his or her say, at the very least a message would be sent that conservatism does, in fact, still live here.

The same logic holds true for you Texas Democrats. A spike in opposition voting will send a message to the majority party that you exist and that you don't plan to go away. Of course, I AM planning to leave this most corrupt of Democratic strongholds with the intention of adding another conservative vote to the Texas rolls.

[dmmjsm]

Too many died for my freedoms and my right to vote- I always vote!

[spursfan]

Originally Posted by Turnerliryc

I am voting, but not for either of the major party canidates. My vote is going to Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party. Normally my vote would have gone to the Republican side but I just can't vote McCain and seeing how he'll probably win the State anyway it isn't going to matter.

That's a good choice. I was originally going to vote for Bob Barr, but i may change over to Baldwin.