I love how I can so easily share a meme from facebook to here with a simple copy/paste.
I did, actually. I voted the first week early voting was open and assumed that the lines would be shorter the first week in October than they would be on election day. In hindsight I’m not certain that my assumption was correct, but it was my assumption.
Also hubby had the day off so it was convenient for us to go together and stand in line together. But really the worst part was just going the last half-mile on the street and then getting a parking spot. The line itself wasn’t that bad because the traffic was limiting the number of people who could even get in line in the first place.
They could have done another Reagan-era increase to the eligibility age. And also tied the Medicare eligibility age to the Social Security Normal Retirement Age. Then assume that you will see materially higher Social Security Disability claims for the newly less-than-full-retirement-age contingent, but there will still be a material cost savings.
While they’re at it they could have made Social Security Disability a little less nightmarish, although truth be told I’m not certain whether the blame there lies with Congress or the Social Security Administration.
This is one of my favorite features of this site.
Yes, you and I could have agreed to raise the FRA. But, that wouldn’t have met Bush’s must-have of privatization. And, most Ds would have opposed any benefit decrease.
Well much of my vote meant little the top of the ticket was going blue no matter what I did.
Most of my votes on State Props didn’t go well
The local election 2 of the 3 I voted for city counsel won and my 4th choice was the one who was the 3rd.
From a friend of an old AO friend:
If GA turns blue by one vote, it will be thanks to a young man named Zach.
Goes to school in DC. Requested an absentee ballot from Georgia and it never arrived. So he borrowed money from a friend, flew to Atlanta, voted, flew back to DC AND went to his classes. This is a true story.
I’m tried to get his Venmo to shoot him a few bucks and cover his plane ticket but several others stepped up before I could offer and have already covered his ticket for the run-off. That’s some dedication to democracy! 
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