Something We All Agree On
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Can we get rid of xxxxing columbus day and make election day a national holiday? I'm serious.
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Certainly. Or move it to a Saturday.
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Certainly. Or move it to a Saturday.
Certainly. Or move it to a Saturday.
If you're doing a change make it a holiday on a Monday.
I guess that'd mean more working people might vote, so be careful Heck.
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WSS
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That's the whole idea, Steve. Make it easy for working people - for everybody - to vote.
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Vapor translation:
"Dammit. I'm going to feel bad if Cal wins the bet that Obamao won't be reelected. I have to think of something....anything...."
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Also, if you make it a holiday on a Monday, you might entice people to make it a three day weekend like they do with Memorial Day and MLK Day and then you've ruined the whole purpose of a voting holiday. That's probably why it's better to make it a Tuesday holiday or move it to a Saturday.
I haven't seen any research on this, but I'd suspect you'd lose some people that way.
I mean, if you gave me a three day weekend in November I'd vote early or absentee and then go away somewhere, wouldn't you?
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gosh, maybe we should just move election day to MLK day ....
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John Wayne? Do you mean Mad Anthony Wayne?
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Also, if you make it a holiday on a Monday, you might entice people to make it a three day weekend like they do with Memorial Day and MLK Day and then you've ruined the whole purpose of a voting holiday. That's probably why it's better to make it a Tuesday holiday or move it to a Saturday.
I haven't seen any research on this, but I'd suspect you'd lose some people that way.
I mean, if you gave me a three day weekend in November I'd vote early or absentee and then go away somewhere, wouldn't you?
Also, if you make it a holiday on a Monday, you might entice people to make it a three day weekend like they do with Memorial Day and MLK Day and then you've ruined the whole purpose of a voting holiday. That's probably why it's better to make it a Tuesday holiday or move it to a Saturday.
I haven't seen any research on this, but I'd suspect you'd lose some people that way.
I mean, if you gave me a three day weekend in November I'd vote early or absentee and then go away somewhere, wouldn't you?
Yes Heck. I can see that point.
WSS
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I see what you mean heck, but more importantly, this week is my birthday week, so I'm 100% an advocate of making it a national holiday.
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You're like my wife. Somehow a birthday becomes a birthweek.
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I have to work 12 hours tomorrow, on my birthday
And I'm trying to put together a digital copy of a laboratory notebook. Grrr. Grad school.
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Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.
I will be 59 on the 27th!
WSS
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Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.
I will be 59 on the 27th!
WSS
Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.
I will be 59 on the 27th!
WSS
But you dont qualify for unemployment. If so I would take 99 weeks off and sit on my arse.
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Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.
I will be 59 on the 27th!
WSS
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Hah. And I'll still be a year + older - I'm 61 in Dec.
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Holy hell. I'm a baby. I just turned 24 today. (er yesterday.... i'm a little late.)
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Well then, happy birthday kid!
WSS
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Personally I prefer to take the entire month of november.
I will be 59 on the 27th!
WSS
But you dont qualify for unemployment. If so I would take 99 weeks off and sit on my arse.
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That's the whole idea, Steve. Make it easy for working people - for everybody - to vote.
That's the whole idea, Steve. Make it easy for working people - for everybody - to vote.
Unionized Connecticut State Workers get 2 hours off with pay so they can vote. Some people don't find this troubling. Our State is dead. Nobody seems to care.
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Many people come in to work late, or leave early, on voting day and nobody docks their pay for the time they missed. I think you're getting worked up over something that's fairly commonplace.
In fact, I've got a friend who is alive today because he went in late to work on 9/11. He was voting. I don't suspect Morgan Stanley was planning to dock him for those two hours he missed.
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