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I did the same. I felt like the poll workers were judging me when I asked for the R ballot, but what are you gonna do?

 

I am a registered Democrat so that's the ballot I got. Voted early last week. Nonpartisan town elections also today so I got two separate ballots. But I posted to cite a fellow Mass. resident quoted in a Globe story interviewing people at the polls this morning. This citizen is registered independent, and told the reporter, as he's entering the polling place mind you, that he had not yet decided which party's ballot to ask for. "I think as an independent I have to keep an open mind," he said. Brother, that's pretty damn open.

 

So open you can feel the wind rush through.

 

Maverick businessman:

Mark Cuban Backs Biden in 2024, Urging More Action on Drug Costs

 

Voter turnout mid-day is about half of what it was in 2020 in my county, according to the local election board. I'm in a heavily Democratic county (Ds typically take 80+ percent of the vote). Part of me hopes that explains the low turnout because in 2020 Biden had not quite clinched the nomination - though it was inevitable - and Bernie was still on the ballot. We also had a heated primary for a senate seat.

This year, Biden is the only Dem on the ballot and that's been a whole thing about why Dean Phillips and Marianne Williamson aren't there, but whatever. We also have a Dem primary for attorney general that's getting a lot of attention. GOP PACs have been funneling money to the weaker of the two candidates to try to hurt the likely nominee (Jeff Jackson). There is a contested gubernatorial primary, but the challengers to the establishment pick - current AG Josh Stein - have failed to build any momentum.

Anyway, I worry low turnout today is a bellwether about lack of enthusiasm this cycle. I hope it's just a function of people mostly only paying attention to the presidential race and that already being decided on the Dem side.

 

More in 2022, the only one I looked up. But:


Researchers claim Texas leads country in ‘rape-related pregnancies’ after Dobbs decision
by: Cora Neas

https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-abo...ape-related-pregnancies-after-dobbs-decision/

Texas vow to 'eliminate all rapists' rings hollow at clinics


"In Texas, the blowback was swift when Abbott said last September: “Texas will work tirelessly to make sure that we eliminate all rapists from the streets.” Critics called it detached from reality. A sexual assault hotline in Houston has answered almost 4,800 calls through August this year — putting it on track to exceed last year’s volume of 4,843.

As of this summer, all abortions were banned in Texas except if it would save a mother’s life."

 

Trump Admits He Could Be Very Easily Blackmailed, Actually

 

This will be the end of Trump.

 

He seems nice.
https://x.com/acyn/status/1765063371244949994?s=46&t=irLjjmpBMQ1q5HgD1Jmtsw

 

The question is when and how Haley bows out. She won’t go full Liz Cheney because she thinks that she has a career in the GOP to salvage.

 

The one immutable truth about elections is that contests spur turnout, and the closer the contest, the higher the turnout.