VOTE TOMORROW - Special Primary Election for U.S. Senate

[ron_newman]

Tomorrow is the special primary election for the U.S. Senate seat recently vacated by (now Secretary of State) John Kerry. Democrats and Republicans will each choose a nominee for the final election, which will take place June 25.

If you are registered in a political party, you must take your party's ballot. If you are "unenrolled" (independent), you may choose which party ballot to take.

Polls are open from 7 am to 8 pm. Find your polling place at WhereDoIVoteMA.com.

Feel free to use this post for any and all discussion of tomorrow's election.

Comments

[clevernonsense.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly honest, I find your response pretentious and irritating (on top of wrong).

I do not want either as my senator. If I do decide to vote, I would not vote for either.

[ron_newman]

Three Republicans are also running, if they are more to your taste.

[cos]

> I find your response pretentious and irritating (on top of wrong).

I felt similarly about your original comment and your answer to "what would that accomplish", but at least I tried to answer by explaining why, rather than just a throwaway dismissal (which is what your original comment seems like). Hopefully it will inform or motivate some other readers of this post.

Whether you want either of these as your senator is somewhat beside the point at this stage: What matters is how you compare them. Like I said before, if you actually think it *doesn't matter* whether one or the other of them becomes your senator and stays for a long time, then you have no reason to vote for either of them, but your self-righteous pretense that it's all about whether you *like* them is silly and I hope most readers here are smarter than that.

Honestly it sounds like you just want to vent some irritation, and have a frivolous view of voting, too. Otherwise you might've answered by explaining why you don't see the difference between them as being important, and also don't have a preference about who wins the Republican primary.

[rozasharn.livejournal.com]

That's fine. Write in someone who would be a better candidate. That will do slightly more to send a message.

Not voting doesn't exert any influence on the game: it just means you can be counted out of the game.