Many of the stations I have been watching for this election, are saying that the election process needs to change. Their suggestion, is to have election day become a national holiday.
What are your thoughts on this? I don't think there is a NEED for this to be a national holiday, but I am not opposed to it. Now we'll have to buy Happy Election Day Hallmark cards! :D :p

Hell yes! It should be a big part of American Culture.

Many of the stations I have been watching for this election, are saying that the election process needs to change. Their suggestion, is to have election day become a national holiday.
What are your thoughts on this? I don't think there is a NEED for this to be a national holiday, but I am not opposed to it. Now we'll have to buy Happy Election Day Hallmark cards! :D :p

This is complete bullsit.... why? Just because their person wasn't elected.... screw them.

I am sick and tired of the liberal media trying to shove their view down my throat and then when they don't succeed, they cry foul....

color me surprized...

tMR

This is complete bullsit.... why? Just because their person wasn't elected.... screw them.

I am sick and tired of the liberal media trying to shove their view down my throat and then when they don't succeed, they cry foul....

color me surprized...

tMR
Whoa whoa, come down, I don't see why that sounds like a bad idea. From the looks of the news, it seems like you guys could use a day off to vote. It would probably mean an increaes in voter turn out, and to my understanding, that's a good thing for democracy.

This is complete bullsit.... why? Just because their person wasn't elected.... screw them.

I am sick and tired of the liberal media trying to shove their view down my throat and then when they don't succeed, they cry foul....

color me surprized...

tMR
It is not biased to one party or another. Their (news stations, not party headquarters) thinking was based on the record numbers of Americans who voted. They wanted to be able to provide Americans the entire day to vote, instead of having to schedule around work, thus declaring the day a national holiday. It has nothing to do with who won, so CALM DOWN.

It is not biased to one party or another. Their (news stations, not party headquarters) thinking was based on the record numbers of Americans who voted. They wanted to be able to provide Americans the entire day to vote, instead of having to schedule around work, thus declaring the day a national holiday. It has nothing to do with who won, so CALM DOWN.

He takes EVERY post as a political slash to his party. Just look over it.

This is complete bullsit.... why? Just because their person wasn't elected.... screw them.

I am sick and tired of the liberal media trying to shove their view down my throat and then when they don't succeed, they cry foul....

color me surprized...

tMR

Despite what everyone seems to think, there is no "liberal media". All four major networks, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN are owned by companies that support George Bush. Also, ABC is owned by Disney, which refused to release Farenheight 9/11, yet sindicates Rush Limbaugh.

He takes EVERY post as a political slash to his party. Just look over it.

No robzombie, it isn't that. It is that they are trying to find excuses to why their person didn't win. I can see them saying that "if the working people had the day off, then more would have turned out to vote." Blah blah blah.. It has nothing to do with a political slash towards my party...... That is why I said what I said... People have the option to vote early. It isn't the act of making it a holiday, it is fact that the liberial media is paving a way for an argument to why they lost.....

Sorry Roxanne, I just can't stand the way the media always tries to push their agenda....At least the American can see through their BS...

tMR

No election day does not need to be a national holiday. You want people to have more chance to vote? Fine have early elections, have polls open for 24 hours if you want. It makes far more sense to pay more for poll workers than it is to make every companies pay for a day off for every single employee.

Plus if you make it a national holiday then kids are off from school and daycares are closed, so you just exchange one responsibility (being at work) for another (watching the kids).

I think we need the day AFTER election day to be a national holiday. That way, you can go out in the evening and vote, and stay up really late to check out the results.

So you're not sleepwalking through the next day, like me.

I wouldn't mind the extra holiday, but I'm not sure if that would actually solve any voting problems. It might matter if the electoral system was based on popular vote instead of the crappy outdated electoral college system we have now. It would have been a much closer election, had it been popular vote that decided it. Our electoral system is really screwed up, in my opinion. ;)

No election day does not need to be a national holiday. You want people to have more chance to vote? Fine have early elections, have polls open for 24 hours if you want.

I completely agree. Polling hours aren't long enough by a long shot. There are many people that are up and running long before the polls ever open, and even more that don't get home until after polls close. To have the polls close at 8 or 9 is ridiculous.

I agree with you there Pale. I did vote on my way to one of my night classes and I was very afraid I was fixing to be late. I think the polling places do need to be open longer and with a few more places to spare per precint so they know what to expect.

I don't want to even go there about what fun it was to register to vote. I had to go to six places before I found it, because I got conflicting answers from everyone. There wasn't even mention of it in the newspaper.

It isn't a bias problem, people were out there in the rain, out there for hours , no matter who they voted for. Obviously there is a need to extend the hours.

Lets just hope in 2008 we have the same or higher turnout. It's just nice enough to know that more people voted this time.

More people aren't going to vote just because Election Day is a national holiday. People don't vote for many reasons, some of the biggest ones being:


They're lazy
They're uneducated
They simply don't care

Here in Indiana, the polls are open 6 to 6. I believe that gives a person who may vote, plenty of time. If you have to be at work at 7, be there at 6 when the polls open. If you get off at 5 and did not have a chance to vote earlier, go then. I agree that making it a national holiday is obsurd. I mean, if the voters see it as a day off, not a day to voice the opinion, they are less likely to vote. I know had I not had classes on that day, I probably would not have voted, because I did not want to get out of the house. But I was already out, so what the hell? Might as well, make my vote. And if the polls are open longer, it just means more people will make excuses not to, and we will have to pay more taxes to pay for the extra help. Trust me, being a lifelong slacker, if you give a smaller window, I am more likely to go, than if the window is so large that I can see tomorrow.


deb