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tardyhardy

Registered | 11/03/2009 10:41PM

In Blowing Rock, the locals really rule! Congrats to Doug, Tommy and Jim!

Boone gets more photo ops with toothy! Woooo hooooo!

Thanks to GBR for the results.

Greed Is good

Registered | 11/03/2009 11:43PM

This is a great day indeed! Now we can move on with the party plan for Boone and Watauga .

jeffersonjones

Registered | 11/04/2009 12:24AM

This is a great day indeed!

Any election day in this country is great as we select our leaders with the lead out of a pencil instead of lead out of a gun

Jeffersonjones 2009

beechbum

Registered | 11/04/2009 6:26AM

Just remember...It was the lead in those guns that gave us the opportunity to use the lead in our pencils!

Fried Chicken

Registered | 11/04/2009 10:09AM

Holy Chicken! You mean less than 10% of the Town of Boone population voted in the election yesterday?!? That is awful! I guess town citizens don't really give a damn after all.

NoBS	Registered \| 11/04/2009 10:22AM

The ones who voted gave a damn, and they made their positions pretty clear I'd say.

Fried Chicken

Registered | 11/04/2009 10:39AM

Less than 10% of the population voted. That's despicable. The voice of the town is more than 1400 votes.

NoBS	Registered \| 11/04/2009 11:45AM

Yeah. I guess the conservatives just couldn't get their votes out.

Fried Chicken

Registered | 11/04/2009 12:23PM

Check yer facts. Jamie Leigh and Andy Ball seem to be somewhat conservative. Or did you mean the Republicans didn't get their votes out? They aren't mutually exclusive, y'know.

NoBS	Registered \| 11/04/2009 3:16PM

The bottom line is that the most progressive candidates won all the way around and the most conservative candidates lost. Jamie Leigh and Andy Ball seem "somewhat conservative" compared to whom? The most conservative candidates running for Council were Holder, Frazier, and to a much lesser extent, Long.

beechbum

Registered | 11/04/2009 12:02PM

Yep...Liberal whiners, tree huggers, King street freaks....exactly why I DON"T live in the town limits.

wildman

Registered | 11/05/2009 9:26PM

Thank you.

paulman1

Registered | 11/04/2009 12:51PM

The "Armageddon" is coming in 2012 anyways, so I don't think it will make much of a difference of who is holding office...

Just call me Bill

Registered | 11/04/2009 2:32PM

While I recognize that ASU students have the right to vote, I have to wonder if the election would have had a different outcome if ASU voters had not been given preferential treatment as to where they could cast early ballots. Perhaps a thread could be posted informing us of the results of the early ballot returns.

Artie_Lange

Registered | 11/04/2009 2:57PM

It was an embarrassing turnout for all parties!

jeffersonjones

Registered | 11/04/2009 6:34PM

After 8 years of George Bush, I believe people are turned off at the idea of voting. They have seen how much damage they can do with a ballot.

abacab

Registered | 11/04/2009 8:20PM

After 6 months of Obama that is probably correct.

Artie_Lange

Registered | 11/05/2009 12:16AM

That's some pretty backwards thinking. Maybe that's the norm over in Ashe?

jeffersonjones

Registered | 11/04/2009 9:17PM

Yep, your right. The stock market is up 20 % from the day he was elected. It will take more than 6 months to over come 96 months of poor leadership.

Fried Chicken

Registered | 11/05/2009 9:26AM

George W. Bush wasn't the only one to blame for the debacle. Look back to Reagan, the senior Bush, and Clinton as well. Oh, and don't forget Congress either.

Ali Baba

Registered | 11/05/2009 11:45AM

Just call me Bill, you forgot to mention (or overlooked) the preferential treatment given to anyone who works or lives close to downtown Boone. There was not one, but TWO early voting locations in Boone. The Courthouse and Ag Center. Where is your outrage at the extreme convenience for these people? You know, what if someone lived over, say, near the hospital, and had to drive ALL the way into downtown Boone, just to cast an early vote? Your right, driving those grueling 3-4 miles is a huge sacrifice that few were willing to make.

Just call me Bill

Registered | 11/05/2009 1:32PM

You make a good point in your attempt a sarcasm. If we are going to have early voting, polls should be open in every district. Apparently you were right in your assessment that driving three or four miles was an effort most would not make. The low turnout supports this. It was certainly easier to go into a building you walk by three or four times a day, so yes ASU students got preferential treatment.

wildman

Registered | 11/05/2009 9:29PM

The people that made this country great seem to have all died off. Voting should be done my the majority not the minority. Guess we have the tail wagging the dog and the dog is dead.

Ali Baba

Registered | 11/06/2009 8:41AM

You still have not given your opinion on the preferential treatment given to anyone who lives/works near downtown Boone since they had TWO early voting locations. You also seem to suggest that driving to a voting location is such an inconvenience. If you're too lazy to drive to vote, then you shouldn't be voting anyway.

Just call me Bill

Registered | 11/06/2009 9:52AM

Apparently I was not clear in my response. I feel that polls for early voting that do not include a location in every precinct affected by the election is not fair. If you do not have them everywhere, they should be nowhere. We certainly did not need early voting to handle the massive turnout in this election.

NoBS	Registered \| 11/05/2009 11:51AM

It is unfair to "blame" the progressives just because they won. The conservative candidates had an equal opportunity to win and didn't.

wildman

Registered | 11/05/2009 9:38PM

Progressive? Building parks is progressive? Well you don't actually build a park you just don't let anyone build on it. So where are all the people going to live? The new students? Employees? Guess the "Progressive" way would to send them out of town to build in the county, on farm lands and forests. Then we can have them drive in to school and work to clog our already crowded streets. Wow that sounds "Progressive"

Ali Baba

Registered | 11/06/2009 8:46AM

Parks built that would be better served as housing? Where? Examples please.