Well folks, in another two to four hours or so, the poll booths for the US election 2008 will close. The electronic votes should come up pretty quick for the results at hand and give a solid indication from major cities (where available) of how the voting went, while hand counting in non-major regions may take a while. The Centre for American Studies at the University of Sydney has a website for up to date updates, and their opinion poll data says it will be a 52% Obama 44% McCain result.
Will this signal a new dawn?
I heard on the news last night (SBS) that the total amount of money raised by the two parties in the last 21 months has been 1.5 billion dollars, which was nearly twice that from the 2004 elections and three times that of the 2000 election. Could you imagine what good that money could have done had it been spent elsewhere?.... That is a heck of a lot of money.... I hope that there will be some real change happening, and for the positive of not only the US, but also the world in a shift of thinking and mentality.
To end this entry, I can't remember which town it was, but at the end of the SBS news item, they said that the first official results predicts an Obama win because some hamlet in New Hampshire closed their voting yesterday with a 15-6 vote for Obama LOL. I guess true democracy is when you don't have to vote if you don't want to. A friend of mine in the US says they don't vote because you have to register, and registration means you become eligible for jury duty selection.... I guess if they got rid of such implications of voting and civil responsibility, more people might register to vote. Here, they send you a fine if you don't, but I know someone who prefers to pay the fine because they earn more money on a saturday an hour than the cost of the fine, and it takes them a while to stand in line to vote etc, than the fine is worth LOL.
Will this signal a new dawn?
I heard on the news last night (SBS) that the total amount of money raised by the two parties in the last 21 months has been 1.5 billion dollars, which was nearly twice that from the 2004 elections and three times that of the 2000 election. Could you imagine what good that money could have done had it been spent elsewhere?.... That is a heck of a lot of money.... I hope that there will be some real change happening, and for the positive of not only the US, but also the world in a shift of thinking and mentality.
To end this entry, I can't remember which town it was, but at the end of the SBS news item, they said that the first official results predicts an Obama win because some hamlet in New Hampshire closed their voting yesterday with a 15-6 vote for Obama LOL. I guess true democracy is when you don't have to vote if you don't want to. A friend of mine in the US says they don't vote because you have to register, and registration means you become eligible for jury duty selection.... I guess if they got rid of such implications of voting and civil responsibility, more people might register to vote. Here, they send you a fine if you don't, but I know someone who prefers to pay the fine because they earn more money on a saturday an hour than the cost of the fine, and it takes them a while to stand in line to vote etc, than the fine is worth LOL.
2 comments:
Hamlet?! Dixville Notch is a village in my home state of New Hampshire, thank you very much! :-P
LOL
Their words, not mine~
It could be a hamlet (i.e. smaller?) if you consider that only 21 people voted... haha
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