Somebody must not understand how primaries work.

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We all jumped on that at the same time, she and me and Hoppie. We all followed it up with some varient of "Not in this election, of course."

Although generally, it's true. Hoppie generally votes republican and I vote democrat, unless we decide to vote libertarian or green, which we'll usually do together.

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I got a sticker!

Anyway, did you then look as this woman, and, in very, very small words, explain how the primaries work?

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In some states, primaries can have some votes which will indeed cancel out.

Take, for instance, my primary today. There is a measure on the ballot that asks whether property taxes should be raised to support additional funding for the local school. Your votes could indeed cancel if you differ on that particular message.

So while it's certainly not an issue for election of candidates, issue votes can certainly be cancelled by each other.

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In some states, primaries can have some votes which will indeed cancel out.

But not in Massachusetts, where this conversation occurred.

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how can votes cancel out in a primary?!?

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Speaking as someone who works in political news, do you have a statement about voting you'd like to share with the nation?

About the song you're listening to... we may have had this conversation, but what is the one thing Meatloaf will not do for love? According to the song, he'd be willing to "hose [her] down with holy water when [she gets] too hot". The sheer logistics of which give me pause. How would you get holy water under sufficient pressure to hose someone down with?

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He said "Willing." not "Able."

I feel very disenfranchised by the primary process generally. By the time super Tuesday came around, the majority of interesting candidates have dropped out leaving the indestinguishable cookie-cutter moderate clones and wack-jobs. I'm told other people feel differently.

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I'm amending my previous answer. Didn't you see Dogma? Have a priest bless the well or reservoir.

There were a bunch of things he wouldn't do.
He would not forgive himself.
He would not stop dreaming of you every night of his life. (although you'd think that would be something he couldn't really control)
He would never forget either 1)everything or 2) the way you feel right now.
He would never do it better than he does it with you.
He would not be screwing around

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I got a sticker for voting in the 2007 gubernatorial election. The year I really wanted a sticker was the first one I voted in: 2001.

My mother gave her 2004 sticker to the dog, so now the saying in our family is spaniels for Kerry. Toby is a left-leaning cocker spaniel.

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when ckd and I voted this evening, the poll workers were giving out I voted! stickers. I put mine on my jacket with pride (or even *pride*).

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I've gotten one every time I voted. Actually, I think they even gave me one once when they wouldn't let me vote as some sort of consolation prize - as if that made up for the fact that they lost my registration.

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Groton gives stickers but it never involves kissing. I've learned that Shirley does not give stickers, but they were ecstatic when innermonkey and I got there because we are the only 2 people registered to vote on our street. The little old poll tending ladies who check us in and check us out had marked our page down so they wouldn't be shuffling through the whole packet looking for our dinky little street. It was really small town and quite funny.

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