Strong turnout expected at Wis polling places
UNDATED (AP) - One and a-half million voters are expected to flock to polling places in Wisconsin today.
That would be about 35 percent of eligible voters and the strongest turnout in 20 years.
At one polling place in Washington County's Germantown, nearly four dozen people had voted in the first 20 minutes it was open.
In downtown Appleton, Kathy Flores was first in line to vote at St. Mary parish.
Flores says she was more excited to vote in this election than any other in her life. The 41-year-old nonprofit worker says she voted for Barack Obama because she believes he will end the war in Iraq, improve the economy and protect the environment.
Appleton dentist Doug Krueger says he typically votes Republican, but cast his vote for Obama because the Illinois senator creates an energy the country needs and appears to be an effective leader.
In Germantown, engineer Ed Dyer voted for Mike Huckabee. Dyer says the former Arkansas governor is the closest thing to a conservative with evangelical views.''
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.
Feb 20, 2008 at 11:15 a.m.
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"Not everyone that gets the death penalty is innocent"
This is very true. However, how many innocent ones is too many?
Would that number change if one of the innocent ones was your son or daughter?
Feb 20, 2008 at 9:35 a.m.
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Bubs,
Not everyone that gets the death penalty is innocent. There are criminals out there that kill innocent people and they never get due process. How do the families of those innocent people feel?
Why do people who are pro-choice believe in killing the innocent unborn children? These same people don't believe in the death penalaty. So basically they believe in protecting the guilty and killing the innocent.
Also, they are pro-choice but don't believe in giving the baby a choice.
Feb 19, 2008 at 9:42 p.m.
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DrTalk,
Yes, they had due process. As wisconsinheat points out, does this mean they are guilty? It's acceptable to you to kill innocent people for crimes they didn't commit as long as they get due process in a court of law? Also, although inalienable rights can mean rights that cannot be surrendered of transferred, FairPlay seems to be using the phrase to refer to inherent rights that cannot be taken away. Huckabee is pro-death penalty which takes away a person's right to life. If Huckabee, as FairPlay says, believes in the universal right to life, then how can he support the death penalty?
Feb 19, 2008 at 7 p.m.
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Tell that to the families of the innocent ones.
Feb 19, 2008 at 5:16 p.m.
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On the subject of the death penalty, it is needed. period.
Feb 19, 2008 at 5:11 p.m.
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Oddly enough, political calls were excluded from regulation when the no-call law was drafted.
Feb 19, 2008 at 4:05 p.m.
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they all promise you good things untill they get into office then they do whats good for themselves. just look at what Bush did. and why must they call here all the time pushing you to vote for them.once should be enough. not 6 times thats starting to be harrassment. im on a no call last they shouldnt be calling at all
Feb 19, 2008 at 1:42 p.m.
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But does that always mean they are guilty?
Feb 19, 2008 at 1:11 p.m.
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Bubs,
The Constitution says no one can be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process. If someone is sentenced to death, they have had their due process.
Feb 19, 2008 at 1 p.m.
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John McCain will be the Republican nominee. It won't even be close.
Feb 19, 2008 at 12:41 p.m.
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I agree that McCain should lay off Huckabee. If he wants to continue to run, he should continue to run. There are a few things in your post that intrigued me.
- Isn't Huckabee pro-death penalty? Aren't we alienating criminals and wrongly convicted innocent people of their inalienable right to life? Small masses of cells with the potential to become a human being have more on an "inalienable" right to life than a human being who may (or may not) be innocent of the crime for which they were convicted? How does anyone have more of an "inalienable" right than others?
- Didn't we have a strong military before 9/11? How is our military going to help stop a terrorist attack? A strong military seems like a good protection against invasion by another country but foreign and domestic intelligence agencies and law enforcement seem more effective against terrorism.
Feb 19, 2008 at 10:50 a.m.
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John McCain claims that Mike Huckabee should quit the race or else he won't have time to compete with the Democrat. If you have to make a claim like that, you are demonstrating weakness not strength. I hope voters base their votes on the records and qualifications of the nominees, not fear.
Regarding Mike Huckabee:
1) He supports the position that all human beings, including the pre-born, have inalienable rights, such as the right to life.
2) He proposes we eliminate the current tax system, which penalizes productivity (the more you earn, the more you pay), and replace it with the FairTax, which rewards saving and investing.
3) He wants to make our own military so strong that no one would want to attack us like they did on 9/11.
4) He is a superior communicator, who can sell his ideas and defend his positions, and would be a much better contender against Barack Obama than John McCain. Likewise, he has already defeated the Clinton political machine over and over again in his home state of Arkansas.
5) He is an experienced governor who was overwhelmingly re-elected twice because of the success and popularity of his administration.
6) To be the Republican nominee for President of the United States, John McCain has to win 1,191 delegates, and he has not done that yet.
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