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Election Day 2010: Where Do I Vote? Are Moms Taking Over the Country?
Forgot where to vote? Google makes it easy, easy, easy
Tomorrow is Election Day 2010. Hopefully you’re already registered to vote, or maybe your state has same day registration. If you’re not sure where to vote (if your polling place changes depending on the election, as mine does), here’s a mind-bogglingly easy way to find out.
Go to this version of Google maps, plug in your address and faster than you can slap an I Voted sticker on the baby, you’ve got your location (plus directions). Remember, you can bring the kids, strollers and cheat sheets into the voting booth with you — no sitter required.
Judging from polls, there’s a chance, Mom, that you’re not going to vote. Sad. (So sad!) Because no matter where you are on the political spectrum, the issues — economy, health care, fair pay — directly affect you and the family. If you don’t vote, you can’t complain. (No, that’s actually NOT in the Constitution. Just a rule of thumb.)
Also, if you haven’t noticed, we women with young offspring are not only being courted, but motherhood is suddenly the characteristic to campaign on. Judith Warner writes about this “new momism” for The New York Times. She points out that motherhood and the Mommy Brain are the new biggest asset for every candidate out there (sorry, guys!) — especially for women whose resumes aren’t particularly intimidating — or, in the case of World Wrestling Federation’s Linda MacMahon, are, perhaps, too intimidating? Motherhood is instant cred, instant connection, a direct path to political power.
Okay, maybe not that last woman. Even though everything you’re reading about this year’s election would make it appear women (especially conservative women) are taking over the country, that’s actually not true. Rebecca Traister busts 5 myths about female candidates in the Washington Post.
Rock the baby, rock the vote. Or, well, go VOTE!
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PlumbLucky commented on Nov 01 10 at 3:39 pmAt least in MI, do NOT bring any campaign propaganda (i.e. something with a candidate’s name visible on it) into a polling place. I could have slapped the one campaign worker who taught me this…by handing my toddler a chip clip with his candidate’s name on it. Only to have it taken at the door by a poll worker (hadn’t run into this circumstance before, plus a little distracted with my cheat sheet, said toddler in arms, and being 7 mo. preggo) thus causing INSTANT meltdown of said toddler because a grown up took his treasure away. From then on out, we go as a family because our polling place happens to have a park so we can take turns voting/playing.
yudh commented on Nov 01 10 at 3:52 pmElection Day 2010: The Great Refudiation of Obama. October 31st, 2010. David Karki. Refute: To prove wrong by argument or evidence, to show to be false or erroneous. Repudiate: To refuse to have anything to do with, to disown,
http://msalatv.blogspot.com/
bob commented on Nov 02 10 at 9:15 amSo, it’s a repudiation of the last repudiation, which repudiated the previous repudiation…ad infinitum. Whether it’s that or the usual adjustment which happens the election after one that gave the presidency and both houses to the same party, it’s really not such a remarkable occurrence (harmful though it might be).
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