... but I really don't answer the doorbell today in Madison, Wisconsin — the Saturday before Election Day.
Maybe I need to make a little sign that says we've already voted.
To live freely in writing...
... but I really don't answer the doorbell today in Madison, Wisconsin — the Saturday before Election Day.
Maybe I need to make a little sign that says we've already voted.
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Perhaps a good use of AI would be to replace all of the political mail, ads, texts, etc with something useful once you've voted. (early) Of course, with my luck, they would be replaced with My Pillow ads.
Obama's Witnesses
"Have you been transformed?"
asks the Obama's Witness
I would make the sign. And I'd leave a bowl of uneaten Halloween candy as well.
We voted for Trump!
My wife is a registered Democrat even though I converted her decades ago.
She enjoys getting Democrat election mailings, which she finds hilarious.
We get twice the door knockers.
The sign says piss off. The candy gives a polite counterpoint.
I would have a sign that said No Soliciting: If you are close enough to read this you have 10 seconds to run before you are dowsed with boiling oil. No Tresspassing either.
Obama's Witlesses.
Maybe I need to make a little sign that says we've already voted.
This will not work. Democrats vote multiple times and expect you to mail in more ballots.
A sign that says, "Too late." and one of those little 'I voted' stickers.
They don't trespass if you put up a Trump sign in your yard and point 9 guns right at their faces.
Had someone with an iPad knock my door two weeks ago. 'Do you mind if I ask who you are voting for?' they ask, ready to enter my answer onto their map.
Why yes, yes I did mind.
The call a week ago on our land line from Marist I did take, though.
Achilles makes a good point.
So how about a sign that says, "Too late." and ten of those little 'I voted' stickers.
Althouse is obliquely claiming she voted ... but did she? If you don't vote for President in order not to cancel out say .... Meade's vote for Trump ... then have you really voted already?
Do kids trick-or-treat in your neighborhood?
I already told you I voted
Scott Presler and Steve Bannon adopt the Democratic position that long lines to vote is voter suppression in Pennsylvania.
“Is this election interference? Voter suppression? How is a working class person supposed to go and wait 5+ hours in line to vote?” ~ Peter Navarro
The irony is too rich for a second serving.
There is only injury if it happens to their side, otherwise it's fine.
"And I'd leave a bowl of uneaten Halloween candy as well."
As opposed to a bowl of eaten candy?
"As opposed to a bowl of eaten candy?"
You could leave that for Democrats. Based on their candidates, they've proven they'll swallow anything.
I've been surprised to have fielded only one visit to my door this election season. A pair of democrats.
Me: "The Packer game is on".
Them: "May we talk to you about the election?"
Me(in my head): "Are you fucking nuts? Why do you think I just told you the Packer game is on!?!?"
Me(actually): "No."
My wife and I have received those odious "We'll know if you voted" mailings and just now I received a text saying the same thing. I can't begin to express how much those offend me. Who the fuck do they think they are?
Answer the door, Diversitist. Lets have a conversation, perhaps a debate. I've already voted. Never mind.
Bloc punctuated humor.
I already told you I voted.
I am looking forward to the day you tell us who you voted for.
Or the day you decline to tell us who you voted for.
In my part of SoCal folks only ring doorbell for local contests.
But if you don't answer the doorbell you'll never get to purchase Renewal By Andersen® replacement windows.
LOL: https://x.com/adamcarolla/status/1852105379280490834
I don't understand why that matters. What does it have to do with anything? Are you assuming that she is somehow publishing things that she doesn't believe if she voted differently than you expect?
My take is that she gives us her honest opinions here every day, and if she makes a mistake, it's an honest mistake. How she votes is irrelevant.
Welcome to the Wonderful World of Anthrophobia.
It's a little lonely, but you get used to it.
I thought the GOTV campaigns were sophisticated enough to know who has and who hasn't voted. Has the professor's household not voted yet?
It's none of my business how Althouse voted, nor is it any of hers (or anybody else's) how I did.
We have had a sign for a long time. They just ignore it. They always have some excuse why it doesn't apply to them.
I have installed a Ring doorbell so I can see who it is from my phone and just ignore if I want.
Get a programmable doorbell that tells the person to call and make an appointment. Or, better yet, have one play this
I don't answer the door, but my little kids do. I also don't answer the phone and I block and report every text. It's horrible.
On that alone they need to lose.
We have a couple of cell phones dedicated to being hotspots for our computers. My cell phone and the hotspot ones have been getting texts for “Stephan” and other names…all but mine. They’re letting me know I haven’t registered at such and such an address, not mine. I also get texts that Kamala needs money. I’m wondering what kind of lists they’re using.
I live in a blue city in Wisconsin and haven't had one phone call or door knock this election. I'm surprised at that because I've been told that the Democrats have a great ground game and I thought they would be doing their best to drive up the Appleton vote. I get a lot of texts (mostly from the Trump campaign but a lot from Kamala's, too) that I delete and report as junk.
My favorite part of “Robocop” was “You’re fired!”
Progressive probing is evidence of potential cancel culture action. Perhaps even a Whitmer conspiracy or Pelosi-rrection scheme. Be very wary.
Must be a swing state thing. I live in a Purple neighborhood in a Red town in a Blue state, and we’ve never had any kind of political door-to-door visit. Though I know the Donks ballot harvest in the more ignorant parts of an adjacent larger town in order to install a faux-moderate Congressperson.
I wonder how cost-effective that is though, in a time when any kind of door-to-door activity (other than trick-or-treating) seems weirdly intrusive.
here the wild animals keep them away. Bad for trick or treat, good for everything else...
A bowl of candy wrappers.
Ahhh, memories of doing GOTV door-to-door in Lodi, NJ for a friend running for Congress. Hated it. My favorite was the guy in the tank undershirt telling me, “my wife takes care of all that.” Even though I live in WI, no one is doing that in my little town. Living in a high rise in NYC also spared me from that. When I lived in the suburbs in CA, I never answered the door. It was more duck and cover.
If I vote at the precinct, I never give a straight answer if asked about candidates/issues.
While I am intensely curious how our hostess voted, it's only in support of an effort to understand just how much she is trolling her readership; or, alternatively just how much cognitive dissonance she can tolerate. From her perspective, however, I believe it is smart not to reveal how she votes and to keep some of her thoughts to herself. My default position is to believe that she always provides her honest opinion. But with a law professor who presumably taught one or more generations of students how to view both sides of a question, there is always this nagging doubt.
"it's only in support of an effort to understand just how much she is trolling her readership"
Right. You are afraid that she is lying to her readers.
similar to all Cretans are liars : why not say "I am an honest person so whom do you think I would vote for!!"
Exactly, Tim. Also - we all need to stop hounding the host. It's not cool.
I don't have a door bell. But - I do have a little kids toy/ Halloween door bell. A giant eyeball appears with a spooky deep voice. ... best part - I can only hear it if the window is cracked and I am in close proximity.
Oddly - this year the mail flyers were a minimum. Perhaps the money wasters figured it out.
I think it's good that she isn't saying. Who knows what corrupt gov entity is watching this site. (Like they watch everything - because the FBI is Soviet a-hole)
I live in a purple suburb of deep blue Tucson. We get tons of political mail, but no door knocks so far.
My wife is a life long registered Democrat who votes in person on Election Day. In 2022, she got a fair number of door knocks, but I (as usual) got none. She does get DNC phone calls and she tells them to leave her alone.
She was embarrassed to tell me she voted for Biden in 2020 and is even more embarrassed to tell me that she will vote for Kamala-lala-ding-dong this time.
It's a branding thing for her, along with a belief that the mainstream media is generally credible.
Any competent GotV operation would have pulled the voter file, determined that everyone in the house registered to vote had voted, and not bother you.
How much would we have to pay you to answer the door & find out who the idiots are? :-)
“In This House:
We celebrate Cruel Neutrality
Better than nothing is a high standard
We mock civility bullshit”.
I answered the doorbell a couple of days ago and was greeted by a very large black dude wearing a Trump shirt and a MAGA hat. The dog decided he was friendly. He asked if I had voted, and if not, did I know the location of my polling place. I assured him I had voted, my wife had voted, and the dog was still waiting for her ballot.
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