I voted today in Cambridge. There was a choice among presidential candidates. You could vote for several competitors to John Kerry’s reelection bid for the U.S. Senate. All of the other candidates, ranging from Representative to the U.S. Congress down to dog catcher, were incumbent Democrats running unopposed. Cantabrigians had a fourth ballot question not available to most Massachusetts: “Shall the State Representative from this district be instructed to vote in favor of a nonbinding resolution calling on the federal government to support the right of all people, including non-Jewish Palestinian citizens of Israel, to live free from laws that give more rights to people of one religion than another.”
Asked about the experience later, I responded “You couldn’t vote against most of the Democrats, but you could vote against Israel.”
Cambridge 2-1 didn’t have any of the potential non-binding resolutions, which I
found personally disappointing, because I was looking forward to voting against
them. I settled for writing in someone against Toomey.
Kudos for your prediction of Obama winning the election months and months ago, before he was even nominated! I am impressed.
Any predictions on what happens four years hence?
Well, Mr. Greenspun, I congratulate you on being correct on your guess on who would win nearly a year ago.
‘Asked about the experience later, I responded “You couldn’t vote against most of the Democrats, but you could vote against Israel.”’
The respectable thing to do for hip left leaning young people a generation ago was going to a kibbutz, today members of the equivalent demographics need to spend time in Tibet to gain equivalent status.
If there were any real democratic tendencies in these united states, policy decisions that have much more profound impacts on peoples lives than the party of the president would be decided by referendum.
I found your blog searching for this eleccion predictions(yours was the best one) and I enjoyed many of your writtings over this last five years, sharing most of your points of view. I hope there were more people like you.
I’m a software engineer from Argentina but have been living in USA for the last 8 years (Yes, I came at the same time Bush took office, figure you).
Really I found this a great country but it would be a far better place if more people think a little bit harder.
By the way, in your 7/12/12 blog you promised you’ll write something if you were right in your prediction so start typing.
Regards,
Jorge.