What do you do Nov 3rd?

[lookout123]

Scenario: It is Nov 3rd and your candidate has lost the election. What do you do?

-- Will you continue about life and accept the elected president as the leader of our nation?

--Will you spend endless amounts of energy trying to convince people why the person in office shouldn't really be there?

-- Will you look for every opportunity to bad mouth and tear to shreds the man in the office?

-- Will you grab your gun and head for the hills to wait for imminent implosion of the nation?

-- Or will you simply shrug your shoulders and take solace in the fact that you are comfortable, yet disgusted, that it doesn't really matter who is in power because none of them really care about people like us anyway?

[elSicomoro]

I'll go with 1, 3 and 5.

[flippant]

-- Will begin to look for the quickest exit out of the country?
Is that an option?

[DanaC]

What if your candidate wins the election but is denied the presidency?

[lookout123]

Originally Posted by flippant

-- Will begin to look for the quickest exit out of the country?
Is that an option?

yeah, you and hollywood. oh wait, they didn't follow through on their promises.

[Happy Monkey]

I don't have a gun, so I've gotta go 1, 2, 3, and 5.

[elSicomoro]

Originally Posted by DanaC

What if your candidate wins the election but is denied the presidency?

Depends on what you mean by "win."

[flippant]

Originally Posted by lookout123

yeah, you and hollywood. oh wait, they didn't follow through on their promises.

Well if hollywood contacts you again.....tell it that i'm a worthy cause and to donate. I'm not sure why hollywood would make you promises, but that's obviously none of my business. I can respect your privacy about the whole thing.........

My idea is obviously not permitted so I'll just go with:
--Will not draw my own conclusion and will embrace all insults with charity

[Chewbaccus]

Secret Option #6 - Enroll in Semester At Sea and jump ship.

[DanaC]

[quote]Depends on what you mean by "win."[quote]

get more votes

[elSicomoro]

Gore got more individual votes, but Bush got more electoral votes, which is what is needed to win the presidential election in the US. The EC sucks, but I don't see it changing any time soon...and I wouldn't say that Gore was necessarily denied.

I gotta go with head for the hills with my gun while waiting for Aunt Elsa to send me my one way ticket to Zurich on Swiss Air.

[DanaC]

Gore got more individual votes, but Bush got more electoral votes, which is what is needed to win the presidential election in the US. The EC sucks, but I don't see it changing any time soon...and I wouldn't say that Gore was necessarily denied.

Perhaps had tens of thousands of American citizens ( primarily black) not been denied their vote due to "errors" in the accounting of people's right to vote ( innocent people whose names and demographics bore a resemblance to that of a convicted criminal for instance) or in the inexlicable blocks which were placed in the way of other ( again mainly black) American citizens and which had the effect of making voting a ( sometimes physically) difficult affair.....Perhaps then yes Bush could be said to have recieved more votes. But since the tens of thousands of people whose votes were denied were overwhelmingly likeely to vote Democrat....and since Bush only "won" by a handful of votes, much less than the votes which were unfairl;y discounted I still consider the election to have been stolen.

[elSicomoro]

Sources, por favor.

[Dagney]

Originally Posted by DanaC

Perhaps had tens of thousands of American citizens ( primarily black) not been denied their vote due to "errors" in the accounting of people's right to vote ( innocent people whose names and demographics bore a resemblance to that of a convicted criminal for instance) or in the inexlicable blocks which were placed in the way of other ( again mainly black) American citizens and which had the effect of making voting a ( sometimes physically) difficult affair.....

I'd be interested in seeing 'neutral' proof of these allegations.....I can only seem to find this information coming from the mouths and fingers of Pro Kerry supporters....and from that, extrapolate that it's merely a tactic to deter Pro Bush voters.

As an aside, and a completely unrelated topic, I find it interesting that it's being said that the majority of voters leaning towards the Democratic side of the ticket this November are not voting that way because Kerry's there.....they phrase their choice "I'm voting 'against' Bush", not "I'm voting FOR Kerry".

Dagney