If The election Were Held Today....

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Who Would You vote For?

Barack Obama
14
67%
Mitt Romney
3
14%
Undecided
1
5%
Third Party
1
5%
Not Going To Vote
1
5%
Ineligible to vote
1
5%
 
Total votes: 21

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Gob
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RayThom wrote:We can sit back and enjoy watching the candidates shooting themselves in the foot, and who does it the most or least often.
While us foreign folk can sit back and piss ourselves with laughter at the $$$$ squillions poured down the drain, the bombastic and melodramatic saccharine speeches full of empty rhetoric , the hysterical campaign adverts, the mind bogglingly dumb political punditry, the overt lies form both sides, the jaw dropping idiocy of the Vox Pop interviews and the breath and depth of stupidity displayed, and all the other carnival of fools dog and pony show entertainment that American politics does so much better than anywhere else on earth.

On behalf of the rest of the English speaking world, I thank you America!!
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Ouch! :fu ;) :lol:
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Yay! I'm ineligible.
Bah!

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you can put me down as "undecided" (I don't vote in polls) :nana

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oldr_n_wsr wrote:you can put me down as "undecided" (I don't vote in polls) :nana
No one votes in polls.

They vote in elections and are ... get ready ... are you ready? ... really ready? ... polled in polls.

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Hey! That was sarcastic! :fu
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rubato wrote:
oldr_n_wsr wrote:you can put me down as "undecided" (I don't vote in polls) :nana
No one votes in polls.

They vote in elections and are ... get ready ... are you ready? ... really ready? ... polled in polls.

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When you start a topic you have the option to Create a POLL.
Then the posters who respond can VOTE in that poll.
Just the way the board describes it.

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poll (pl)
n.
1. The casting and registering of votes in an election.
2. The number of votes cast or recorded.
3. The place where votes are cast and registered. Often used in the plural with the.
4. A survey of the public or of a sample of public opinion to acquire information.
5. The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.
6. The blunt or broad end of a tool such as a hammer or ax.
v. polled, poll·ing, polls

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/polls
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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One person got it.

That's not a bad average. If average is all you expect.

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GRATUITOUS INSULT ALERT!!!!

GRATUITOUS INSULT ALERT!!!!

GRATUITOUS INSULT ALERT!!!!
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Oh sorry I thought this was the which DC hero is homosexual thread? Can I change my vote?
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:lol:
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Crackpot wrote:poll (pl)
n.
...
5. The head, especially the top of the head where hair grows.
...

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/polls
I hadn't known that definition for 'poll' before. I'm learning the most unexpected new things on this board!
I'm mulling in my head how the term would sound in general conversation. Such things as "Bruce Willis's bald poll looked all shiny and sweaty under the spotlights', or 'Britney Spears shaved her poll'. It sounds very odd. :)
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. . . and an example of where it actually is used:

A poll tax - is a tax 'per head' i.e. a tax levied on a person rather than a thing or transaction

eta
2 Sam 14:26
And when he polled his head, (now it was at every year's end that he polled it: because the hair was heavy on him, therefore he polled it) he weighed the hair of his head at two hundred shekels, after the king's weight.
(Eng Revised). Also in Douay-Reims and American KJ and a couple of others

and much more cheerfully:

She got the chief to show her
How he aimed his blow
And cut the white man’s crop of hair
And left the brains to show.
The Lord had made her quick to learn
The way to carve or chop or churn.

The moon was on the hilltop,
Sleep was on the waves,
Hannah took the tomahawk
And scalped all twenty braves.
She left her master last of all,
And at the ears she shaved his poll.

from The Lady of the Tomahawk
by Robert P. Tristram Coffin
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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I prefer his other work..

She stood on the bridge at midnight,
throwing snowballs at the moon.
She said; "sir I've never had it."
But she spoke to fucking soon....
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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GOB. OH, YOU FORGOT...

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... BURMA SHAVE!
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Gob wrote:I prefer his other work..

She stood on the bridge at midnight,
throwing snowballs at the moon.
She said; "sir I've never had it."
But she spoke to fucking soon....


No, no! My second line started "Flicking blackheads at..."
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