Dreary day & PMWB warning (politics mentioned within blog)

[kinzel]

inside, a quiet day of putting things in places, reducing piles,
catching up on email, petting some cats, and some more cats,
catnapping with the help of the other two gray-fellows...
and more catching up.

While reducing the pile on the kitchen counter -- in fact, cheer me on! --
eliminating it... I came across my copy of AARP The Magazine -- the November/December
issue, in fact, the one with the voter guide.

In these troubled times I take what help I can in decision-making, and...
in the magazine was a voter's guide. It looks like John Kerry's answers are
a match for the AARP position. Oddly, the President didn't answer *any* of the questions,
which had to do with keeping social security intact, long term health care, prescription
drug costs... and other things of interest to the 50 plus group.

No comment on this lack in the editorial, just an* with the information
that "The candidate chose not to mark a circle."

Sigh, and after the AARP went to bat for the President's little prescription plan, too.

Meanwhile a new (Zogby, I think) Poll has cost the state of Maine a bunch of bucks... in that it says Kerry is ahead in the state and likely to stay that way. If that's so, the Republicans will spend ad money elsewhere. Maine can use a boost in the economy... sigh... being a swing-state is *so* useful,
except if you want to listen to the radio or watch TV.

Comments

[unwritten-words.livejournal.com]

being a swing-state is *so* useful, except if you want to listen to the radio or watch TV.

Or not answer you phone. :(

I get called by canned "Bush", "Kerry," "Sen. Harry Reid", "Gov. Kenny Guinn" et al on a daily basis. Gets pretty aggravating.

[adina-atl.livejournal.com]

The phone rang the other day, for the fifteenth time that day, and I told my mother "I'm voting against however that is." Turned out to be someone from church. *g* (Who, ironically, I later discovered had run for state office years ago and lost.) Welcome to Ohio.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Hey, if we aren't a swing state anymore, does that mean those annoying taped phone messages will go away?

[jerrykaufman.livejournal.com]

Probably not. I live in Washington, not a swing state, and the phone calls have been so numerous that my wife, who works at home, won't answer the residence phone until next week.

We got calls from Kerry, Patty Murray (one of our Senators), Bill Clinton, and so forth.

By the way, at this time next week we may be the only state with a female Governor and two female Senators. It reminds me of the feminist sloglan, "A woman's place is in the House...and the Senate." Yes, we can do that.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Well, we've got the two female-type senators already, but you'll have us beat if you get the guv. No gubanatorial election in this round, so we don't have a chance.

And the phone calls have continued, including personal messages from the president's mother and one of our aforementioned senators. Gah! Is there no end to this tyranny?