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• By james on 11/12 06:41 PM

  provisional ballots will change absolutely nothing, Obama won by such large majority which way nc goes will not affect squat. if nc and two more toss-up state were too go to McCain he would stil be on losing end of the electorial ballot. As for whatever next illiteracy is still aproblen in this country. Ask yourself if you had a family to raise and all the work was in mexico would you stay away from the work and let your family go hungry because you dont speak spanish?

• By whatnext on 11/12 02:00 AM

  If only that person sitting at the table during early voting could fill out their new voter registration papers without having to get the poll worker to "interpret" all the questions for them - Thats my concern Yeah, we CAN all vote in this country, but shouldn't we at least be able to fill in the blanks where it asks for our name and address. . . . to earn that right. I find this one stop registration/early voting ridiculous. And my poll-working friend is quitting this charade because they were given "additional" ballots to record - which were supposedly the ballots of people who had - ALREADY BEEN CHECKED OFF IN THE VOTER REGISTRATION RECORD BOOKS. How did that happen???

• By james on 11/11 11:41 AM

  By Jmaes 11/11/08 10:40 A.M. every citizen has a right to vote, unless they lost that right because of legal problems. nowhere does it say you have to know what is going on or what the canadite stands for to vote for him/her. you cannot tell people how to vote, they can vote for someone for any!!!! reason it is their right! it is called being a free nation people!!!!!!

• By Sterling on 11/10 07:29 PM

  The fact of the matter is, that every minority I talked to and a lot of what I heard on TV was that they were voting for him because he was black and would give them anything they wanted, like I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car and won't have to pay my morgage. Howard Stern sent on of his producers to Harlem and asked who you were voting for and why. They all said Obama anythough all their reasons were John McCain's platform. So race had a tremendous amount to do with it.

• By Les Noble on 11/10 02:28 PM

  If it were left up to people like Mike, "all these blacks" would still not have the right to vote. The GOP lost bigtime, get over it!

• By barbara on 11/10 11:09 AM

  get over the race thing for god's sake. President-elect Obama is both white and black. I was in Jamaica for my son's wedding on election day and the congratulations and good will that was expressed to our family when Obama won was incredible. Jamaican's, German's, British, Scandinavian's were just as happy as we were. We all celebrated together and all said the same thing,"Now America will fix it's reputation around the world." Imagine that.

• By John on 11/08 11:00 PM

  Throughout the years black people voted for white candidates and that was not a issue. So how come a black guy voting for somebody he likes becomes suddenly an issue. If we keep talking about race then very soon there won't be any USA, rather we will be like any other racist country. Guys, please look beyond the color, race, religion and sexual orientation. Otherwise I have to agree with most Europeans who think Americans are the most ignorant people in the world.

• By james on 11/08 05:59 PM

  on mike and penny, both of you like many americans are still to stuck on the color of a peersons skins or what sex they are it si no wonder you can not see the big picture! our planet is dying in the last 100 years we have lst 90 percnt of the forest in the world. society is based on satanic values! only the strong should survive, only those with enough money should have food to eat and health care to take care of their medical expenses! only thing that brought all the paople to the poles was their pocket books not anything t do with the future of the nation or the problems our world faces? global warming, health, people starving to death and being mureded for their faith!most people dont care about the well being of humanity as a whole it is hat all mighty dollar everybody worships!

• By Penny on 11/08 07:03 AM

  No response necessary to this piece of pure ignorance. Over and OUT!

• By Cheryl on 11/07 11:38 PM

  no matter what the the issue it still remains that most blacks that would never even thought about voting all of a sudden voted for a man who was born in kenya not even in the usa and who doesn't even know himself that he is neither black or white yet claims to be more of one race than the other and has contradicted himself as most politicians usually do so look out america land of the free we are in for world change in more ways then one look at our new cheif of staff for starters change what a food for thought

• By Penny on 11/07 06:58 PM

  No Mike. What I am saying is that it shouldn't be legislated by anyone because bias is involved. How do you feel about the number of white people who didn't vote at all or voted for McCain simply because they couldn't vote for a black person? Are you all for making their next vote provisional too? How many people voted for Palin because she was a babe (to some)? How many have voted for one candidate or another because of party affiliation and not the candidates' platform? If you're going to start examing things at this level, make sure you do it across the board.

• By Mike on 11/07 03:05 PM

  So Penny....what you are saying is that if there had NOT been a black candidate to vote for then all these blacks that had never voted before would still have turned out in RECORD numbers to vote for, lets say, Hillary Clinton or maybe even some other non-minority instead of McCain. I don't believe that and you don't either.

• By Penny on 11/07 02:25 PM

  What a load. Who are you to judge why people came out of the woodwork? Perhaps it's because we finally had an option for a leader that offered intelligence, calm & reflective consideration of issues, and hope for a restoration of America's reputation in the world. Regrettably, I know many white people that didn't vote because they couldn't vote for a black candidate. People also came out in record numbers because they were fed up with the appalling record over the last eight years. Your bias is exactly why I would never support any alteration of the voting process....EXCEPT actually increasing the number of machines so everyone CAN vote.

• By Mike on 11/07 10:42 AM

  On a slightly different note, maybe a law should be passed that would keep first time voters that were eligible in previous elections from having a "fully weighted" vote. In other words, if you just became eligible because of age, you should have a fully weighted vote. However, if you have been previously eligible and did not vote, you should be required to go through a probationary period before you get a fully weighted vote. This would help prevent a situation like we had in this election where people who didn't feel it was their civic duty to vote in the past, suddenly came out of the wood work to vote only because they wanted to elect a black, white, hispanic, etc. candidate. I'm not opposed to electing a black president, but you should do it for the right reasons and not because he is black.

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