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If they did (they might not, depending on what the swing votes were thinking that day), they would probably just kick it to the House. Which I think may be required to elect someone who received at least one electoral vote.

I'm not sure the army actually "supports" anyone. Too diverse. Unless you mean the Army, which would probably use the opportunity to rig the Army-Navy game.

I think you have to hew OUT a path? Try "cleave," one of the few English words that means its own opposite.

If it makes you feel better, yours was a direct vote, right? Ours is a representative vote. One candisate could win the popular vote but lose the Electoral College. Another reason we don't have national referenda - too direct for James Madison.

Oh, I'm really worried too. I imagine I'll be up late tonight watching results... Meanwhile, H seems very confident in who will win--he just asked me if they'd called the election for her yet.

i live in a swing state, but ive never voted. ive been thru a few election years. im not even registered. people act like they want to murder me when i tell them that, so i keep it to myself... honestly i dont even know what its like to vote. part of the reason is i am too scared because ive never done it... i tend to avoid new things that ive never done because of my anxiety

In my world view, voting's a choice. And I also say that if you don't vote in every single poll, down to the lowest primaries, you don't get to judge other people over it.

(If you ever do decide to start, a local primary would be the best way - no crowds, election staff have time to help you if you need it.)

thanks. i wish i was registered. i really want to vote against our current governor. he is the worst- hes ruined this state. HB2, his tight knit relationship with Duke Energy and letting them off the hook over all their effing coal ash dumping, and the plummet in teacher's salaries and also state workers bonuses which are crap

ok, sorry. i know we are not supposed to get political

We have caucus in my state and it is really disheartening to experience the chaos and confusion. My precinct ended up telling everyone who wanted candidate x to go to one side of our corner of the gym (there were other precincts sharing the space) and everyone who wanted candidate y to go to the opposite side. There were 91 of us on one side and 5 very nervous people on the other. And then there was an argument and we did a hands in the air vote--twice--because it was felt that someone was missed. And the second count came up missing 9 votes off the first round and everyone just sort of drifted away after that.

I should know this but I don't -- I believe electronic voting machines (you press a button on a machine and the vote goes in) are not the norm in US elections (found out when a colleague printed out his sample ballot)? I know there are issues with them but it is kinda surprising all the same...

Yeah, I voted on a paper ballot--filling in circles like I was taking the SAT or something. Then put it in a machine to read the votes. I think 8 years ago, it was electronic voting. But then there were all these issues with the machines, so I assume that's why they switched to paper ballots. I early voted this year, so less crowds (though I heard some early voting locations were very crowded).

Oh wow, that sounds horribly intimidating! I much prefer the secret ballot form.

One of the google dictionaries does have it as an intransitive verb, hew to your path, like stay on your line.

I have an almost unerring ear. Plus my earring holes are almost closed up.

Plus i only cleave things to my bazooms.

It's very off-putting, but I couldn't live with myself if I did not show up and at least try--and now I'm glad I did because I know in my heart I had tried to make my vote count at that level. On the plus side most of us were all for the same candidate, who unfortunately was not the favorite of the party bosses so even though he won our state caucus, the party said it did not put much stock in the results because caucus dampens the turnout--even though it was the party that chose the caucus process (the other party chose a primary process). There was no low caucus turnout in my area--streets were clogged near caucus sites.

So, it was easy to see that the party was going to get who it wanted and most of us were disgusted. A neighbor later went door to door, asking to be the new precinct officer because the one we had was not honoring the will of the majority.

I'm going to spend the evening sculpting.

How cool! I am spending it looking at therapist's websites while watching election returns. I shall report back to you all on the more mockable ones.

What medium do you sculpt in? Because if it involves paper, you could print out a bunch of therapists' websites, arrange them, and call it "The Banality of Empathy." (H/t Hannah Arendt)

I hope someone has noticed that in a single Couch I have managed to work in the names of the two authors of probably the two most controversial pieces published in the New Yorker magazine?

One of the states I lived in - Arizona, maybe? Art would know - had a paper ballot and a broken arrow by each candidate and you connected the two halves of the arrow to vote for them. I thought it was refreshingly primitive. Only an idiot could mess that up.

I'm going to prepare for class now, trying to get the image of unaluna cleaving things to her bazooms out of my head...

Please share a picture, if it's not too personal! I would love to see. I've not tried sculpting before. I don't think I would know how to begin.

Hi couch. Looking into getting a new t. Waiting to hear if this one counseling center has any ts that accept my insurance. If not I found someone not that expensive that looks decent that I may want to private pay, but I can really only afford to go every other week.

The democratic party knocked on my door a while ago and asked if i was able to send in my absentee ballot. As far as i knew, i left it in the correct box at the polling place last week. I wish they wouldnt do crap like this. Somebody also knocked on sunday.

Im gonna get my bazooms cleaved on thursday. Im going to home depot for a mammogram. Okay, the parking lot of, at a mobile medical trailer. I was doing a riff in t about how this is not obamacare, its trumpcare. Theyre not even pretending anymore, theyre just getting the boob vises straight from home depot. Trump will probably do a walkthru while im in there undressed. Then have me go work on building the wall.

If Trump has you, he won't need to build a wall. You ARE the wall.

Trying really, really hard not compare myself with other students, especially miss goody-two-shoes Anna.

You are a better person than me. I am drinking heavily to get through this night.

Stopdog, I tried port tonight in your honor. It is disgusting.

Can I pm a pic to you later tonight? I'm headed out right now. About to die of a heart attack from the news.

btw, I got started by searching online for classes and found an artist who works one on one or in small groups. I loved how her pieces have so much emotion in them, and it's been a remarkable experience. So, maybe look around at who's in your town and find out if they teach.

I ended up sobbing for fifteen minutes and told H all kinds of stuff about sexual abuse and how horrible it is to have no one believe you and how treacherous a body can be and how much I hate it and how much trump terrifies me. Told him way too much but he was super nice. I told him that I love T and feel guilty about it. He seemed cool with it.

Wow. I have had too much to drink already and the election results aren't even close to being in.