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I should add that today I finally watched "When Harry Met Sally." It was Brother-Husband's idea, I'm pretty sure he's seen it before. I'm glad he picked it, it was a really enjoyable movie.
 
The faking an orgasm scene in the restaurant is one of the great movie scenes of all time, IMHO. :D
 
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"I'll have whatever she's having." ;)
 
It's a great scene, although I have to say, there are great scenes throughout the movie.
 
Heh, that scene from the show made me chuckle.
 
I'm torn on whether to vote for Clinton or Johnson.
 
I want to vote for Johnson, but we've got several Supreme Court vacancies to worry about. The thought of the court being turned a solid republican majority - I can't do it. I am going to vote Hilary, and then cry a lot into my pillow that night.
 
I'm in the same boat, Kevin. I'm heavily leaning towards Johnson but I'll wait to see late election polls for my state and decide then. If the race looks at all close, I may vote for Hillary. If it's a runaway race (in my state), then I'll stick with Johnson.
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this dilemma ...

Although regardless of how I personally vote, I think Clinton has the best chance to win, followed (all too closely) by Trump. Johnson may get a record number of votes for a Libertarian candidate, but his chances of winning are still very slim.

I used to be a card-carrying Libertarian ... til I realized it's really like a branch of the GOP. I've been leaning heavier and heavier in the DNC direction during the past ten or so years. It's to the point where I even cautiously favor the idea of socialism in the United States.

Since my vote bears so little weight in the overall election, I might as well vote my conscience. But how to do that this year?
 
It being Sunday, Brother-Husband and Snowbunny are both off today. Brother-Husband will be watching a lot of football, I guess the NFL season starts today? Forgive me if I err, I am not a sports person. The only sport I'm even interested in is mountaineering (if you count that as a sport). Brother-Husband's favorite sport is hockey, but he also likes football and baseball among other things. For some reason he's not really into basketball. I don't know why.
 
Usually, by the time the votes in Washington are counted, the winner has been figured out already. I remember that in 2008 Obama had won before I'd even gotten to the polling place, but I went anyway just for the symbolism :)
 
Don't forget there are usually some important local issues on the ballot on which your vote has a more vital effect! Don't skip voting just because the presidential election is problematical.

Leetah
 
That was the last year it was physically at a polling place; now all voting in the state is by mail-in ballot (which doesn't feel nearly as important, and you don't get a sticker!).
 
I like the mail-in ballot. Much more convenient. I'll definitely vote.
 
I just wanted to mention that your vote counts, even if this is not immediately obvious. As Leetah mentioned, there are often important local issues/positions on the ballot.

But on the national level, this is NOT, I repeat, NOT a 'normal' election at all. It's highly not normal in fact. It might matter a great deal that you (generic you, not Kevin specifically) voted for a third party candidate. That's a vote that did not go for either "main stream" candidate. (Yes, I'm snarking Trump as a mainstream candidate.) If enough people do this, in specific states or even nationwide, it will have an impact on the overall election. I'm somewhat skeptical of this claim but there is some evidence that people voting for Ralph Nader in Florida, instead of Al Gore, helped set the scene for the clusterfuck election of 2000 (it was a nationwide mess but it seems to have concentrated in Florida.)

I'm very fearful of a Trump presidency. I think it would be even worse than George W. Bush who was the worst president of my lifetime who 'only' allowed the US to join the ranks of nations who torture and started a war that killed thousands and ended up destabilizing an entire region, with effects that are now felt directly in Europe. So I am fearful of people thinking their vote does not matter, voting for a third party person, or not voting at all, and we end up with Trump in the White House. It matters who is in the White House even if that doesn't always play out the way I would like it in terms of policy. (I voted for Obama even though I knew he was at heart a moderate and would not support the things I did, like single payer health care.) It matters in part because of the large number of vacancies on the Supreme Court. Would you want someone with Trump's personality picking a Justice that will influence the court for a generation? It matters because the President determines the tone and focus of the federal government, not Congress and not the Supreme Court. (This by the way is not what the Founders wanted - they saw that role remaining in Congress, and for many years, Congress did provide this. But the dysfunctional Congress of the modern era is utterly incapable of this function.) Do you want more bathroom bills discriminating against trans people nationwide, not just in certain states? Do you want the immigration agencies to become utterly draconian? That and so much more is on the table this election.

And as a last example, in the unintended consequences of protest voting, some people in England appear to have assumed their vote was not going to matter and so voted for leaving the EU. Many of them now regret it as Great Britain is leaving the EU which is going to be very painful. Also the places that voted at the highest rates to leave also got the most financial assistance from the EU and now that money is going away. And Great Britain is screwed financially, as well as politically. It's a mess that no one seems to know how to manage, much less solve.

Your vote counts.
 
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That is an excellent post, opalescent. And there are many points in it I agree on, I just don't know where to begin. I think it would probably be a disaster if Trump won, which is one of the reasons why I think it's better to vote for Clinton (who might win) rather than Johnson (who almost certainly won't win).

I think just the Supreme Court justice issue alone is enough to convince me to vote for Clinton. But I'll wait and see what else is said on the matter.
 
Yesterday the three of us went on an evening walk which is something we sometimes do. I don't have to participate, but I've been doing so lately so that my doctor won't hassle me about getting exercise. I jokingly said we should walk to Dairy Queen; Brother-Husband and Snowbunny jumped all over that and so that's exactly what we did. They had pumpkin pie blizzards and Brother-Husband and I both got one. It was okay but I would probably get something different next time.

Early tomorrow morning Brother-Husband and Snowbunny will be flying out to Michigan for those weddings. Both will be gone for about a week, and Snowbunny will be gone for about two weeks. I have mixed feelings about this. It's nice to have the house to myself but I don't know. I hope none of the planes crash.
 
Glow flies a lot, every few months or so. And I always, always worry about her plane until I hear she's landed safely.

So yeah, me too!
 
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