I was the 119th person to vote at my precinct this morning.
How about you? Have you yet, or will you before you go home tonight?
Vote. Vote. Vote.
And if I haven’t mentioned it recently, get out and vote.
Namaste.
Archive for the ‘voting’
Michigan Proposal 1- Medical Marijuana
Since I have started writing, and posting info on Michigan’s proposal 1 this site has received a tremendous amount of attention. 3000 hits from people who want to know what the medical marijuana proposal is all about. I have had folks who suffer from one ailment or another post their thoughts. Surprisingly, I have only had a few negative posts. Some of them I deleted because of profanity, or just being stupid.
What does this mean? There are more than 3000 people who live in Michigan. There are more than 3000 people who could benefit from a prescription to medical marijuana. What I think is needed is that everyone who reads this blog needs to talk to 5 friends about voting next Tuesday. And everyone who reads this should talk to those friends about the benefits of medical marijuana.
It is not addictive. It does not rob the patient of their facilties. It works. It doesn’t do any damage to their bodies.
If you tell 5 friends about this, maybe the proposal will pass.
If you don’t, maybe the proposal fails, and those folks who are in pain, or who could benefit from medical marijuana keep going to the pharmacy and getting their pills.
The pills that rob them of their facilties. The pills that are addictive. The pills that can be doing damage to their bodies.
You choose.
namaste.
Michigan Proposal 1 update
There are only 14 days before the Novemeber election. That is 2 weeks until the residents of Michigan can vote on Proposal 1 that is an indirect initiated state statute that would allow the medical use of marijuana for seriously ill patients.
Taken from balletopedia:
Specifically, the measure, if approved, would:
* Allow terminally and seriously ill patients to use marijuana with their doctors’ approval.
* Permit qualifying patients or their caregivers to cultivate their own marijuana for their medical use, with limits on the amount they could possess.
* Create identification cards for registered patients and establish penalties for false statements and fraudulent ID cards.
* Allow patients and their caregivers who are arrested to discuss their medical use in court.
* Maintain prohibitions on public use of marijuana and driving under the influence of marijuana.
An October 2008 poll of likely Michigan voters condicted by Denno Noor Research, The Rossman Group, and Michigan Information and Research Service claimed “58 percent of Michigan’s voters favor the ballot initiative while 33 percent do not.”[10] The poll has a margin of ewrror of plus or minus four percentage points.[13]
A Detroit Free Press-Local 4 Michigan Poll shows 66% of respondents in favor of Proposal 2, with 25% opposed and 9% undecided. The poll, conducted Sept. 22-24, 2008, was based on telephone interviews with 602 likely voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.[14]
A poll by Marketing Resource Group in March 2008 showed 67% of voters saying they supported medical marijuana and 62% voicing approval for this particular initiative. Voters between 34 and 54 showed 75% support for medical marijuana, with 63% of retirees voicing support. Younger voters (18 to 34) were the least supportive, with 61% backing the measure.
Michigan you have 2 weeks to get the support that you need for this initiative. To pass it will bring releif from pain and misery to thousands of your citizens. To let it not pass is a vote of approval for big pharmaceutical companies, and the scare tactics of the Federal Government.
Vote yes on Michigan Proposal 1.
Namaste.
18 – 26 year olds least likely to vote
I came across this article on The Daily Dish blog.
Millennial Surprise
By Daniel Larison
Over the course of the last few months, Rasmussen has been tracking attitudes about voting for a black candidate for President. What they have been finding is that the public is gradually becoming more willing to support such a candidate, but what is most striking in the three surveys they have done is how constant and relatively great the unwillingness to support a black candidate has been in the age group you probably least expect. According to the three surveys, 18-29 year olds are now relatively less willing to support a black candidate than voters from other age groups. While resistance to supporting a black candidate has dropped in every other age group since February, and overall stands at just 8%, it remains basically unchanged among the youngest voters.
While older generations report slightly increased unwillingness among friends, family and co-workers (which is the pollster’s way of trying to get around respondents who self-censor), approximately one-fifth (22%) of 18-29 year olds state their own unwillingness to vote for a black presidential candidate. When asked about the willingness of friends, family and co-workers, the figure for “no” rises to 31%, which is the largest percentage in any age group. Older voters will tend to say they are less sure about the attitudes of friends and family, but there is evidence of more explicit resistance among 18-29 year olds in both responses.
Of course, roughly three-quarters of this group say that they are willing, and it is among these young voters that Obama has drawn many of his most enthusiastic supporters. Even so, what we seem to be seeing is that unwillingness to support a black candidate is actually much stronger and more enduring among young voters, who are much more likely now to say this openly. This would seem to undermine conventional narratives that Millennials are less concerned about matters of race than their elders, and it may be that the greater diversity of Millennials is a cause of this.
Young voters are just one group that needs to get out an vote this time around.
namaste.
