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[ilanarama]

Politics report: getting whoa scary acrimonious on the local level. What do you do when two people you know socially run against each other in a primary?

Movie report: the Durango Independent Film Festival is so far a lot of fun. This afternoon I hope to sit in the theatre from 3 until 8 and watch my little eyeballs out.

Psotcrad report: tofty has beautiful small precision handwriting.

Remodeling report: I unpacked three boxes of books to put them on our new!!! bookshelves!!! today. The Ekornes chairs we ordered are supposed to come in on Wednesday.

Running report: eight miles yesterday, the longest I've run since I started getting knee problems in November. Felt pretty good.

Snow report: still none at all.

Comments

[mehitabelmmoss.livejournal.com]

Tough question, that. If I felt strongly about the issues or the quality of the candidate I guess I'd hep but not diss your other aquaintance. After the primary you can work hard for whoever won. If they are equal in your eyes I guess you could be supportive to both but not take sides.
I have a problem in that our congressman is running for the Senate. MAny great local politicians are running for his seat and I can't decide who to support. I do need to get more details on issues and what they want to do in Congress but I would support many of them. In our area, it is pretty strongly democratic. Pretty much the primary is the election.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but the snow is with me now.

Good to hear that the knee injury is doing well, and to hear your news.

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the politics thing is complicated. I like one more than the other, on a personal level, but on the other hand I think the other is more likely to win the general election. (We have the opposite situation that you do: there are more Republicans than Democrats, and about the same number of unaffiliated voters as Dems, so centrist candidates are more likely to win because they need to draw support from everyone.)

And then there is the primary where I don't care for either of the Dem candidates, and I kind of like the Republican who's unopposed in her party, so. Politics out here in purple-state-country is always interesting!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

Send it back this instant! We need that snow!

[zadcat.livejournal.com]

You can have some of mine. There are heaps of it here.

[laurelwood.livejournal.com]

tofty is one of those people whose cards/psotcrads I display "writing side out" because that tiny writing is just so lovely to look at. She draws good cats, too!

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

What do you want the snow for? I already have a very interesting offer from some Finns, who want to dive into it nekkid when they emerge from the sauna...

[guntar.livejournal.com]

It sounds interesting! We never get such interesting electoral problems here, except in municipal elections.

I suppose that, in the US, each candidate has more freedom than they do here in Canada; here, almost everything is done along party lines, and there are only a few times in recent history where people have broken ranks with their party (an MP in my party, the NDP, broke ranks with it in order to vote against the gay marriage bill); more common is for people to cross the floor, and join the other party, or become an independent; this happens from time-to-time. But, in Canada, most people vote for the party, and not the individual members, unless the member is very prominent.

[guntar.livejournal.com]

That was a poorly-constructed sentence. My bad.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, pshaw. *blushes at both of you*

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I'd like to strap boards on my feet and slide down a big mountain of it!

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

I think that's the case in general in the US, but perhaps not as strongly. The real problem (or maybe opportunity) here is that as the Republican party nationwide has been taken over by the right-wing religious nuts, many western-states Republicans (who are generally more libertarian in their outlooks) are unhappy with the party, particularly over civil liberties and rights issues. Our current state representative for this area is such a man - and the Democrats haven't run anyone against him in years because we like him, even though sometimes we disagree with him. But the state Republican party has recently had a huge blowup over his "siding with the enemy" on an issue (pitting big business against environmentalists) - the party leadership has been slagging him off publically.

He's term-limited, as it happens, and in the Republican primary there are two candidates - one a woman who casts herself as his ideological successor (and she's the one I might vote for in the general election, if she wins the primary), the other a stereotypical churchy anti-gay, anti-abortion, pro-big-business businessman. We'll see what happens in the primary.

(In our Dem primary we have a relatively young sleazeball lawyer, who I really dislike, against a former professor and city councilman who is a nice guy but about 90 years old, totally uncharming, and as it turns out personally uncomfortable with gay rights and abortion issues even though his campaign managers are a couple of lesbians - we had a laugh over that. If he wins the primary (likely) and goes up against the republican woman, I'm not really sure who I'd vote for.)

[frosch.livejournal.com]

Generally, when it comes to politics, religion, and other such supposedly serious pursuits, I find it most socially successful to cultivate an artificial superficiality. I ask myself, "What would Zaphod do?"

It has been my experience that people in general find this much more attractive than dealing with my core personality, actual feelings, and well-considered opinions.

Usually, of course, I don't find it worth the energy to maintain such a facade, which is a large part of the reason I'm not very active in the community in which I live.

[eejitalmuppet.livejournal.com]

Nekkid?!

[kar0na.livejournal.com]

::adds that to list of "Things To Do Before I Die"::

[ilanarama.livejournal.com]

As it happens, politics is to a great extent our social outlet (perhaps in the same way that church is that for others) as both Britt and I work at home and thus have a hard time meeting people. It works pretty well, as most of the people we are in contact with agree with our actual feelings and well-considered opinions. The only weirdness is when things fall out as they are now, with a primary race in which we both think that the better candidate is the one that we are less personally fond of.

There is a reason I use my swamp picture for my political posts.