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We got slaughtered in Travis county. Pretty much a 2/3 straight party democratic vote. I was surprised Baldwin didn't do better here though.

We had a lot of really good liberty minded paleo-con republicans running. Mellissa Goodwin for Judge. Don Zimmerman for tax assessor, who wanted to make the office more of a tax payer advocacy resource. Raymond Frank for sheriff who was against tasers due to their excessive use and resulting deaths, against the vampire cops, and was looking drastically reduce the massive budget required my decriminalizing some non violent drug offenses. Gerald Daugherty for county commissioner who had a hard time getting anything conservative passed so he at least gave himself a 10% pay cut.

Oh but Lamar Smith, the Rhino that loves voting for bailouts got 70% as he was only against a libertarian.

bradfromearth wrote:How many of you think I am wrong?

Don't feed the trolls.

I don't think we'll get our guns taken away, but I do think we'll have our rights restricted with them to some degree, without a fight. Will we be victorious? Maybe. We'll see. I do think the attempts will be made, though.

And this coming from someone that voted for him, but not happy about it. (See my post in this thread earlier)

EDIT TO ADD:
I also do not think the workers will be owning the means of production in this country, nor will we see the abolition of private property. We'll still have poor and rich people, and we won't have a single, authoritarian President.

TheArmedFarmer wrote:

laketex wrote:I wrote in Chuck Baldwin and I feel very comfortable with my decision.

My only regret is that Ron Paul wasn't in Bob Barr's place.

I'm surprised that Ron Paul didn't get better numbers in the primaries.

Too bad the elections nation wide couldn't have paid attention to this forum...Look at the spread here!

Venus Pax wrote:

TheArmedFarmer wrote:

laketex wrote:I wrote in Chuck Baldwin and I feel very comfortable with my decision.

My only regret is that Ron Paul wasn't in Bob Barr's place.

I'm surprised that Ron Paul didn't get better numbers in the primaries.

I'm surprised they picked a leftist.
You can't explain Ron Paul or libertarianism in a 30 second sound bite.

Venus Pax wrote:I'm surprised that Ron Paul didn't get better numbers in the primaries.

I think a lot of enthusiasm for Ron Paul waned after he got 10% of the Iowa caucus. A lot of people were expecting much better numbers and that deflated a lot of people. If he had done well in Iowa, the momentum would have carried him to even better numbers in the rest of the states.

Is it just me or did it seem that the Republicans didn't want to win this term? After such a pitiful effort, I've concluded that they didn't want any part of the economy or the wars or anything else that Dubya and the 6 of 8 years of Republican controlled legislature had their hands on/in. The Repubs chose instead to let the Dems win and try to sort out the various existing fiascos so that they could point their fingers in 2012.

Before anyone comes running with either rails or stakes for our heresy, we voted for McMain and Palin...anyway.

I think that the political pendulum swings one way or another for 8 to 12 years, and then it swings the other exact opposite way for a similar period.

The American public is slow to react, and takes alot of reinforcement to become totally fed-up with one party or anothers political posturing. Give it a few more Presidential elections and if our constitution is still intact, it will once again swing widely to the opposite of the political spectrum.

Right now my gut feeling is that our economic decline is orchestrated and is a part of the collective effort to internationalize world governments. The only effective way to do that is to marginalize the economies of the wealthier states and force them all down to an equitable level. At this point resources are controlled by an international elite, the masses are pacified by welfare and controlled through the imposition of draconian arms-control measures.

Oops, sorry. Been drinking too much Red Bull at work today.

You know, i honestly don't remember who i voted for. I was going back and forth between a meaningless gesture and voting for a candidate i agree with on almost nothing, apparently my brain did not find my final decision notable.

It's a shame that these were the only choices we had.........

atxgun wrote:We got slaughtered in Travis county. Pretty much a 2/3 straight party democratic vote. I was surprised Baldwin didn't do better here though.

We had a lot of really good liberty minded paleo-con republicans running. Mellissa Goodwin for Judge. Don Zimmerman for tax assessor, who wanted to make the office more of a tax payer advocacy resource. Raymond Frank for sheriff who was against tasers due to their excessive use and resulting deaths, against the vampire cops, and was looking drastically reduce the massive budget required my decriminalizing some non violent drug offenses. Gerald Daugherty for county commissioner who had a hard time getting anything conservative passed so he at least gave himself a 10% pay cut.

Oh but Lamar Smith, the Rhino that loves voting for bailouts got 70% as he was only against a libertarian.

Actually, if you look at the stats you linked to, straight party votes accounted for only 48.19% of the total vote. Of that, 64.42% was Democratic straight ticket, making the straight ticket Democrat vote 31.04% of the total vote in Travis County.

Don't regret my vote, just wish he would have won..