If you choose NOT to vote, you take yourself out of the picture.

[Darth_Kitten]

Just saying........

[Windy]

1. Not when you were told that your vote WOULD NOT BE COUNTED!!

We were told the same thing here in Michigan. Many I know did not go out to vote as a result.

[Darth_Kitten]

3. Then why did people still go out to vote?

playing devil's advocate here.

[EFerrari]

5. There seems to have been a property tax bill that people cared about,

for one thing.

[Occam Bandage]

6. Some did. Many didn't. There were only five states where Republican turnout was higher

than Democratic.

Utah, home base for Romney.
Arizona, home base for McCain.
Alabama, home base for Huckabee.

And then MI and FL.

[griffi94]

8. i think huckabees

home base is arkansas

[Occam Bandage]

9. That's his home state. He had highest evangelical turnout in 'bammy, IIRC.

Similarly, Romney's 'home states' are MA and MI, but his political home base is Utah.

[wileedog]

7. Because there are other things on the ballot

Which some care about, and many don't.

[Occam Bandage]

2. Nobody voted in FL. There was a beauty pageant that HRC supporters are trying to retroactively

turn into an election.

[hfojvt]

4. with a face like mine

taking me out makes for a better picture anyway :shrug:

[jsmirman]

10. The "but so many voted" argument is CRUSHED here. Follow the link

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/05/primaries.php

This is good, basic, powerful statistical work.

And it should end this particular bs argument for good.

[Crunchy Frog]

11. If you choose not to follow the rules, you take your vote out of the picture.

[seaglass]

12. I agree. When the Bush voters from the panhandle complained

in 2000 that they didn't vote because the state had already been called for Gore - no sympathy, they had the option to vote or not and they chose not to.

[ampad]

13. Who the hell are you

to tell the people of this country when, how and what extent their votes should count? Are you eligible to vote in this country? I would love to see you come to Michigan and tell those folks they took themselves out of the equations because they didn't vote in an election that they were told would not count. Make sure to tell them that your not a citizen of the United States while your at it.