Well, we can tell where I get it from...
Nov. 5th, 2014 08:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_lucy21I stopped by my parents' house to pick something up after tutoring. Dad and I were bitching about the elections.
Dad: Your mom voted for the Green party for Governor*
Me: What, she looked at the candidates and said, "fuck this, I don't want either of these idiots?"
Dad: Basically, yes.
Me: Well, I can't really blame her. I mean, my voting strategy for the judicial candidates was "that name looks like that person is probably a woman. Okay, voting for that one!"
Dad: Me too! That's exactly what I did!
[The judicial candidates are supposedly non-partisan, so they don't put their parties by their names on the ballots. And generally, there's little advertising for the judicial races, so the ballot is frequently first time I've seen any of these names.]
*For my non US readers who might not know a whole lot about US politics (and I don't blame you), we effectively have a two party system- Democrats (President Obama's party and generally considered to be the more center-left party) and Republicans (Former President Bush's party, and generally on the conservative-right side of the spectrum). There are people from other parties on the ballot, but they hardly ever get elected and we don't do coalition government here. So you don't have to vote Democrat or Republican, but generally speaking, when you don't, it's considered a protest vote and largely irrelevant.
Dad: Your mom voted for the Green party for Governor*
Me: What, she looked at the candidates and said, "fuck this, I don't want either of these idiots?"
Dad: Basically, yes.
Me: Well, I can't really blame her. I mean, my voting strategy for the judicial candidates was "that name looks like that person is probably a woman. Okay, voting for that one!"
Dad: Me too! That's exactly what I did!
[The judicial candidates are supposedly non-partisan, so they don't put their parties by their names on the ballots. And generally, there's little advertising for the judicial races, so the ballot is frequently first time I've seen any of these names.]
*For my non US readers who might not know a whole lot about US politics (and I don't blame you), we effectively have a two party system- Democrats (President Obama's party and generally considered to be the more center-left party) and Republicans (Former President Bush's party, and generally on the conservative-right side of the spectrum). There are people from other parties on the ballot, but they hardly ever get elected and we don't do coalition government here. So you don't have to vote Democrat or Republican, but generally speaking, when you don't, it's considered a protest vote and largely irrelevant.
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Date: 2014-11-06 08:16 am (UTC)This is SO VERY MUCH my strategy. American politics are probably as fucked up as Israeli politics - and that takes a LOT of doing...
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