Minnesota’s Secretary of State was kind enough to post my precinct’s ballot.<\/p>\n
So here’s my “to-do” list for the day; my votes are in bold:<\/p>\n
POTUS:<\/strong><\/p>\n JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN REPUBLICAN<\/strong> Soil and Water, Districts 2, 3 and 5<\/strong><\/p>\n I will follow Saint Paul’s endorsements to the letter.\u00a0 Whatever it was<\/a>.<\/p>\n Judicial Elections<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, I won’t be voting for either Howard Orenstein or Gail Chang-Bohr in the Second District Court race: as usual, I’ll be writing in my cat, Nosemarie Berg, for this office, partly as a protest against the paucity of acceptable candidates, partly (as noted in the past) because it’s my way of ensuring that my vote is <\/em>in fact counted<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course, I’m not the only one that votes for Nosemarie – she’s actually developed some traction<\/a>\u00a0over the years – so I’ll be writing in another pet for another one of the unopposed seats.\u00a0 Will it be Clu, the dog?\u00a0 Candy, the other cat?\u00a0 We don’t know.\u00a0<\/p>\n Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Minnesota’s Secretary of State was kind enough to post my precinct’s ballot. So here’s my “to-do” list for the day; my votes are in bold: POTUS: JOHN MCCAIN AND SARAH PALIN REPUBLICAN BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR CYNTHIA MCKINNEY AND ROSA CLEMENTE GREEN ROGER CALERO AND ALYSON KENNEDY SOCIALIST WORKERS RALPH NADER AND MATT […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-mitch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22336,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3585\/revisions\/22336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR
\nCYNTHIA MCKINNEY AND ROSA CLEMENTE GREEN
\nROGER CALERO AND ALYSON KENNEDY SOCIALIST WORKERS
\nRALPH NADER AND MATT GONZALEZ INDEPENDENT
\nBOB BARR AND WAYNE A. ROOT LIBERTARIAN
\nCHUCK BALDWIN AND DARRELL CASTLE CONSTITUTION
\nUS Senate<\/strong>
\nDEAN BARKLEY INDEPENDENCE
\nNORM COLEMAN REPUBLICAN
\n<\/strong>AL FRANKEN DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR
\nCHARLES ALDRICH LIBERTARIAN
\nJAMES NIEMACKL CONSTITUTION
\nUS Fourth Congressional District<\/strong>
\nED MATTHEWS REPUBLICAN<\/strong>
\nBETTY MCCOLLUM DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR
\nMinnesota House District 66B
\nMARK A. ROOSEVELT REPUBLICAN<\/strong>
\nALICE HAUSMAN DEMOCRATIC-FARMER-LABOR<\/p>\n