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Posted: Sep 28, 2012

Well I got my absentee ballot in the mail today and I sat and stared at it for awhile and thought about playing eeny-meeny-miny-mo....both of you are bad so I really don't know. What scares me about Romney though is his whole deal on banning abortion (I realize he isn't as extreme as people are making him on the issue) and the planned parenthood cuts. Um sounds like a mathematical equation of No abortions + No birth control for the poor = Increased welfare cases.

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Here's how I feel - The Sarge - sm

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It's rigged. There I said it. It's rigged. Yup said it again (okay it's 1:00 a.m. and feeling a little loopy :-) Seriously though, both candidates are bought and paid for by wall street. Whoever gets in will be who they want in.

I always revert back to the "my vote really counts ideology" and I will vote. But when I vote for someone I don't always agree with ever issue. Every issue they talk about is not important to me. Abortions don't affect me. I'm not going to be getting one and I don't know anyone who is looking at that. So his stance on abortions are nil to me.

So what I do is read up on Romney and Ryans views and what they are campaining on on all the different issues. Then I look at Obama's. I find that I agree with Romney/Ryan's issues more than I do Obama's and that is how I will be voting.

I could never understand this way of thinking. - I get that some are SM

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against abortion but they should then be FOR birth control to prevent unwanted pregnancy. The premise "I don't want to pay for YOUR birth control" is a straw horse IMO. You're willing to cover the costs of Viagra and others though? LOL. The lies that have been told about Planned Parenthood spending 99 percent of their time performing abortions are shameful. Anyone who wants to defund PP should be ashamed of themselves. They provide well women exams, mammograms, cancer screenings, and a myriad of other services for women who are low income. Romney has said he supports a bill that would bestow personhood on a zygote, basically making many forms of contraception a crime. Do you really want these extremist views against women to become the law of the land? If not for you, vote against this for your daughters and granddaughters. Do you really want people who believe like Todd Akin does in our congress? I assume you know what he believes about rape, right?

Not me, OP. It's a dreadful paradox, but while the media don't - cover grave problems adequately, media negativity

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overwhelmingly day after day, year after year has created a dispirit in the country, a won't-do, can't-do, will-never-be-done fatalism that is out of touch with reality. Behind what's reported, things are always happening, good things, fixes to some problems, changes that will leave others behind.

And no, of course we're far, far from okay. Effects on all of us and our descendents from climate change alone are going to be awful.

What we need to address our problems, though, is more people who will do just that. They're here working away, but all the dispirited dead weights getting their "information" from TV are a drag on the ship of state, having come to believe there's no point in bothering to be tough, strong, brave, to demand much better from our leaders. People with that attitude never accomplished anything great, ever. It's always the others.

BTW, I never vote for the person, but for what I believe/hope the administration will accomplish. Voting for someone who seems more likable or entertaining on a TV screen is a sucker's game.

As for this particular election, what I hope is that whichever way this goes, congress goes that way too and will start working again. That they will be jarred into action by the demands of angry voters. Most of our biggest problems are caused by inexcusable inaction, not just lately but over decades. Again, we have to require better.

It's never easy, for sure... - SK1

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I don't think I've ever agreed 100% with any candidate, but I look at whose platform I agree with more and who I think is more capable of performing the duties.

Any time an incumbent is running we have the added benefit of being able to look at their current record in addition to their promises. That made it pretty easy for me this time, although I do keep listening and watching.

I don't think Romney will ever overturn Roe v. Wade. It would be political suicide and there are too many people who would fight him. I have mixed feelings about Planned Parenthood.... They do good work, but I can understand why some people don't want their tax dollars going towards performing abortions. It's too bad they can't find a way to split the program so that the one aspect could receive funding but not the other. Maybe someday they will.

I've never been a one-issue voter, though, so I have to look at the whole and think about what's good for the entire country, not just my personal interests. That's what makes it a challenge for me.

I applaud you. - TMT

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Your post sounds so sane, reasonable, and honest. I only hope most voters will approach voting from those same intelligent aspects this November.

Planned Parenthood funding. sm - oldtimer

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Planned Parenthood receives about a third of its money in government grants and contracts (about $360 million in 2009). By law, federal funding cannot be allocated for abortions, but some opponents of abortion have argued that allocating money to Planned Parenthood for the provision of other medical services "frees up" funds to be re-allocated for abortion.

Also, when donating to PP you may request where your money goes. Bill and Melinda Gates donate large sums of money to PP and direct that the money NOT go to abortions.

That's good to know.... - SK1

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But at the end of the line, I'm not sure it makes any difference if they're one in the same agency. They can distribute funds any way they want to on paper, but if the same entity is providing both services, it's really not a true delineation.

Would you trust PP to abide - by your request?

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If B and M Gates do that is good enough for me. - oldtimer

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