Clay Bennett for November 08, 2023

That’s the same color as my Good Conduct Medal – and voters ARE displaying good conduct.

Thank you voters!

I voted early (to avoid the long lines).

I voted yes for schools. I hope my money wont be wasted. I hope my money is well spent. Lately the quality of the product being produced greatly disappoints me.

Now you’ll have to run this one again next November, Clay.

I took my “I voted” sticker and fixed it on my car’s rear bumper.

I’m a permanent vote by mail. It makes it easy for me.

…and I work the polls…we had 409 at the one I helped.

I’ve voted in nearly every election since I reached the age of 21, which was the minimum age to be able to vote at that time. (There were some local elections I missed while I was overseas in the Army during Vietnam.) I also worked as an elections inspector for all elections in my town for 15 years, until fall of 2019. I couldn’t have picked a better time to step aside, because the pandemic started about two months later.

Freedom won in Ohio yesterday, even with the lying propaganda from the republicans. Another loss for the “good” chrstians.

Clay voted early and often, as is the democrat way.

When I started teaching in 1978 I was given two instructions: 1. Teach critical thinking; 2. Everybody reads, every day. I quit after the GOP attacks started and teaching became make the test, teach the test, give the test. So, all students were taught was how to take that test. This was the GOP effort to stunt the growth of critical thinking, which they hoped would enable them to fool most of the people most of the time. It has worked. We have two generations that lack critical thinking skills. It is called willful ignorance. GOP solution: book bans, minority rule in school districts, using public funds to help the wealthy pay for private school, and continued underfunding of public schools.

“Red, blue and purple states alike have green-lit similar proposals, solidifying a trend that defies partisan expectations and could have an outsized influence on next year’s federal elections.”

Google: Takeaways from elections in Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky CNN

We lost an election? Why…why… it must have been rigged.

Democrats win again! They and their issues take contests in Ohio, Kentucky, and Virginia. It will be a very interesting 2024, and only a fool would count President Biden out, at this point.

Yeah, voting is going to be “dangerous” now that the GOP is limiting access to voting places. Only “card carrying” Republicans will be allowed in. All others will be banned.

Democrats are going to hammer every single Republican on the 2024 ballot with abortion/women’s rights. Not a single Republican will be able to avoid it. Furthermore, Democracy has now become a kitchen-table issue. Voters are seeing how Republicans tried to disenfranchise voters in Ohio and Virginia, and people are paying attention to ballot access and vote nullification.

Next year will be a bad year to have an “R” by your name.

Whaddaya want, a medal? Let’s save those for the American voters who have to brave gun-toting fascist thugs in order to exercise the franchise.

I voted early on Saturday so that I could work as an election officer yesterday. I handed out over 500 of those stickers in my rural Kentucky community. We had people in our precinct all day long, right up until closing. Busy the entire time. I don’t know what the voting rate was, but if it had been much higher we’d have had difficulty keeping the line down.

It was a good day. Especially good because our governor, Andy Beshear, got re-elected. And he did it with many Republican votes.

Now is the time to rebuild respect and trust between the partys. Now is the time to leave behind anyone who cannot work together.

I followed all the big elections yesterday. Ohio, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia did not disappoint. Not looking good for Republicans going into 2024.

You think you deserve a medal for voting? There’s your problem right there

I wrote in “Taylor Swift”

While voting is clearly central to a properly functioning democratic society, voting with one’s wallet is central to a properly functioning capitalist society. Just as voters should hold elected officials accountable, consumers should hold corporations accountable. If someone is deserving of a medal for voting in an election, if that person blindly buys products without any regard for how responsible those products and their manufacture are, then that medal should be stripped away.

I voted by absentee ballot. So happy that is an option so I don’t have to be amongst fight for a parking space and then wait in line by someone who wanted to gab about the issues. I live in Ohio and we had the abortion and Marijuana issues on our ballot, both passed.

Congrats on Ohio for protecting women and girls for, hopefully, generations to come.

I saddens me when I read many of these comments. The uninformed don`t know who they are and never will.

For now, I am allowing myself to bask in the happiness of watching Moms for (Straight, White, Christian Persons Only) Liberty and their acolytes get their arrogant backsides handed to them in our local school board races, where Democrats won big even in districts that are majority Republican. Seems that running on book banning, hatred of the LGBTQ community, and demanding that all other parents and kids bow down to your personal belief system in public schools doesn’t fly everywhere.

Add in how pro-choice reproductive rights won big EVERYWHERE, and I’m a happy old broad.

I’m a US citizen. Voting is not a right. It’s a responsibility.

Yet in schools ‘not being responsible, it’s not my fault, & it’s my right to do what I feel’, is the cornerstone of every lesion taught.

I recently read an article about the best performing schools in the country. They were on military bases. Three guesses why the outcome was so good…