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Thursday, September 14, 2006
Should I run as a "write in" candidate against Carper?
I've been thinking about how everything I've been saying about Castle could also be said about Carper. Carper voted FOR Bush's vanity war, and for blank check after blank check for Bush. He voted for the terrible bancrupcy bill and even for killing the exemption to protect our service members from the terrible bancrupcy bill, and he still supports the third party candidate in the Ct. Senate race.
Thanks for the support. My platform would be that I am running to hold Carper accountable for his shitty voting record, but maybe I can add a few liberal pet peeves.
The voting is surprising. I did not think it would be a close decision.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you want to mount a serious write-in campaign, make sure everyone you contact is 100% clear on the spelling. Any variations in the spelling will cause them to be considered as votes for two different individuals. The COE can count votes only on the literal handwriting, they can NOT consider a voter's intent, regardless if they spelled your last name Scott or Scot.
Even I will do this for you. I shall write-in Jason Frightland Scott.
I have a slogan, "Danger! Danger! Be like Spivak! Danger" OK, so that is for Jason Robot Scott, not Jason Frightland Scott.
Carper vs. Ting is a perfect opportunity even for partisan Dems to cast a protest vote. You can vote against your party to send a message without any real risk of affecting the outcome (also known as the Mike Castle method).