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Posts Tagged ‘voters’

ELECTORAL TRIUMPH OF THE LIZARD PEOPLE

Examine Disputed Minnesota Ballots For Laffs!

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Lizard People win in a landslideOh here is a fun game! Check out these actual disputed voter ballots from Minnesota, and look at what laughable excuses the Coleman and Franken campaigns have for arguing “voter intent” in one direction or the other. Minnesota Public Radio, you have rendered a valuable time-wasting service unto the nation. [MPR via First Read]


SECRET BALLOTS

Sarah Palin Voted In Alaska Today!

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

And then went moose huntin'We are squeezing in as many Sarah Palin stories as we can today, in the hopes that we will never have to type out her name again, whee! She voted this morning, in Wasilla, but refused to tell reporters who she’d voted for. Is she in the tank??? MORE »


VOTING WITH THE STARS

Heartwarming Voting Tales From Across America

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Democracy Santa will leave coal in your rectum if you don't vote.Well folks, there won’t be any real “news” for hours and hours today, and you keep in sending your nice reports, so we will just cut and paste and get to the drinking early. Here we have EXCLUSIVE ON-THE-GROUND EYEWITNESS REPORTS regarding a sassy lady on the bus in Bed-Stuy, an angry old Irish broad in Bethesda who will move back to the home country for John McCain, and an actor from “Prison Break”! MORE »


WAITIN' IN LINE

Early-Morning Election Reports From Your New York Wonkette Operatives

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Yay for civic duty!It’s no joke, people! Voting lines in New York are just NUTS. But if the Obama campaign supplies “Comfort Teams” like they’re doing in Georgia, you will all get water and hot chocolate soon, and maybe a hand job for your troubles. Two sort of detailed reports after the jump. Send your informations to tips@wonkette, if you have more exciting things to share! MORE »


MACHINE POLITICS

Philly Election Official: Everyone Quit Whining About Voting Problems

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Fred Voight, the adorably rosy-cheeked Deputy Election Commissioner of Philadelphia, says that antsy-pantsy voters need to just “get a life” and wait in the rain for hours and hours to vote on a single not-broken machine on election day. And then he’s all, “do not get your knickers in a twist, Philadelphia’s 5-to-1 Democratic, so we know how this election will go anyway.” He is the most refreshingly candid public official since Joe Biden. [American News Project]


BULLSHIT DU JOUR

What Is This ‘ACORN’ Crap About, Anyway?

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Hamas Mouse voted with ACORN terror bums??!One of the weirdest things to watch in American politics is how the wingnuts do these lockstep moves to some “what the hell are they even talking about?” fake outrage, and within hours there are millions of inane illiterate blog comments and chain emails and C-SPAN callers all prattling on about something nobody had any problem with and had never even heard of, say, last week. How does this happen? What is ACORN, anyway? MORE »


MODERN COMMUNICATIONS

John McCain Loves Pennsylvania So Much He Will Get A Post Office Box There

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

John McCain will quit the Pony Express and go steady with the USPSWhen a gentleman loves a state very very much, he gives it a box of chocolates and then asks it to go “parking” with him, and then he gropes it for a while and if his love is truly true, he opens up a “post office box” in that state. Thus, a declaration from John McCain’s campaign that the candidate intends to open up a PO box in Pennsylvania means he is serious about romancing the voters there. MORE »


SCIENTIFIC STUDIES

Random Blurtings Reveal Voters’ Innermost Thoughts

Monday, July 7th, 2008

My head hurts.If the global collective unconscious may be likened to a vast, roiling ocean, then your average American voter’s mental workings are a fetid kiddie pool with a half-deflated beach ball bobbing around the perimeter. So what better way to plumb voters’ depths than to ask them to shout out whatever word comes into their head whenever they hear some other word? MORE »


DEMOCRATS

Obama’s Joyless Math Beats Hillary’s Magical Maps

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Indiana math is different, because of the time zoneCable news anchors, you are all fired, except for Chuck Todd. You freak out for weeks about all the crazy doomsday scenarios in which Hillary Clinton might be able to WREST the nomination from Captain Hope, and finally at 2 a.m. you’re like, “Oh, but the math.” This is a photograph of Hillary Clinton also thinking about math. [New York Observer]


REPUBLICANS

Valiant Ron Paul Still Running For President!

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

And winning!Even though his campaign staff has been literally decimated and he released a sad Web video in early March saying “I still love Freedom but Victory is maybe not available to me, in the conventional sense, meaning ‘winning,’” Ron Paul is still running for President. And why not? He just won 16 percent of the Pennsylvania Republican primary vote. Plus, passionate Paultards have been raising a ruckus at conventions from Missouri to Nevada! He will still be President after Hillary seizes the nomination from Ralph Nader and moves to Guam. [Washington Post]


FUNNY PICTURES

Hillary Clinton And A ‘Real American’

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Hi Mom!
Hillary Clinton had sex with the Burger King once, and this is their baby who robs banks for a living. [AP Photo]