I went to vote last evening around 6:30 PM. I was the only one in there aside from those manning the operation. I asked how many voted and was told I was the nineteenth….for the entire day!
That is inexcusable, it is pathetic an embarrassment to every young person who gave their life so we could enter those voting stations. How sad. This is exactly how people like Bookmeyer get elected.
I realize it is only a primary but there are choices to make in primaries. This is like beating a dead horse. Why is it that qualified people simply will not vote? In third world countries people are giving their very lives just to vote; look at the Middle-East where thousands are dying everyday. Hell most of you reading this don’t even know where the Middle-East is….or where to vote.
When we bombed Afghanistan for the first time, National Geographic Magazine did a survey to ask people just where Afghanistan was; 80% couldn’t find it on the map; the other 20% couldn’t find America. That’s who’s living here….in bliss and extreme ignorance.
Peter Children
I voted even though there were no challengers to Incumbants on the ticket on the Republican side.
Also Peter, if a person can’t find Afganistan on a map or the United States, I DON’T WANT THEM TO VOTE!
I voted. Shame on those of you who didn’t bother. You’re part of the problems this country is facing.
Give them someone to vote for and they’ll show up! I’m disgusted at the poor choice of selection. I usually don’t vote in the primaries anyway but this time there wasn’t a single person as an incumbent or newcomer that I thought was worthy enough for my vote.
Well Peter all your proselytizing didn’t seem to work.If this is all the influence you and NIT have, Bookmeyer is a shoe in next time.
When people run for office, their past always catches up with them. Some people should keep themselves out of the limelight and certainly should not run for public office.
Just wait until Peter Children finally decides to run for mayor of Mason City, then the people will come out of the woodwork to vote for him!
I went to vote at court house and was told that I could note vote unless I as a dem.or a rep., I told them I was am american, and they told that there was no american running, so I could not vote……..
I voted yesterday at grace united on 14th a bit after 8am and was the third voter. a few years ago a friend was a poll worker during a primary and we figured out she averaged 5 voters an hour from 7am to 9pm with most coming after 4pm in the afternoon.
i voted yesterday afternoon and was number 20. i vote in every election, but if i had not been going past the place where i vote on my way home from work, i probably would not have voted yesterday. no contest on my ballot, in fact, no one on the ballot at all for the statehouse. i know if i was against someone on the ballot, i could have written in a name in protest, but not the case. i believe turnout was much better in places where there was contested races. i am certain the turnout will be much greater in nov. as far as the remarks of Iowa bumpkins, loosers of the enth degree, i take offense. if you don’t like Iowans, feel free to move.
It ain’t the people. It’s the politicians. People have finally come to see that no matter who gets elected, nothing changes. Politicians lie, cheat, and steal. Democrat, Republican, Independent.
I was working. Plus, since all politicians are liars, I don’t vote anyway.
As a registered Independent I can’t vote in the party primay’s. However, I live a block from a voting place and watched the cars all day. It wasn’t hard. There were very few people who went to vote. I would never be a party line voter as I vote for the individual not the party and think people who vote straight party lines are lemmings. It is a shame people won’t stand up for what they claim to believe but will still bitch when it doesn’t go their way. I will be one of the first to cast my vote when November comes. I always have voted and can only remember missing a couple votes and that was when I was working out of the country.
you can reregister at the polling place and vote. You can then register back as an independent. So that is a lame excuse. By not registering as a dem. or rep. at primary time is a cop-out
I went in to vote at about 3 PM and I was the 9th person all day to that point to cast a ballot. I asked the people working there. How sad that in America so many feel it is not worth their time to show up at their polling place and vote.