Comments on: Tyler on Voting

By: Tom Sparks

Tom Sparks — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:04:08 +0000

Mr. Wilkinson, I heard you on NPR's Marketplace this morning and tried to leave a comment there but their site didn't play well with my browser. So I am leaving my comment here.
Your advice to Obama was well thought out but your tone was wrong, if you want to preach to the NPR crowd don't talk down to the President we just elected. You are intelligent, for sure, but need to learn civility, thats where Freedom is exercised.

By: Costa Rica Real Estate

Costa Rica Real Estate — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:19:44 +0000

Now maybe the newest 44th President of the US can begin to raise the country from the slump Bush put it in. Obama will be a great change.

By: Pithlord

Pithlord — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:18:21 +0000

Madison was a great man, but how can you claim he was a good president? He got America in a destructive, divisive and unnecessary war. At a time when that was a bigger deal than it is today.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 18:09:44 +0000

To anyone who is not voting because they think it is instrumentally irrational, I would recommend the article 'It makes no difference whether or not I do it' by Jonathan Glover. He makes a convincing argument, I think.

By: Will Wilkinson

Will Wilkinson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:07:24 +0000

Justin, Yes, de dicto “… because you think it may be instrumentally irrational”

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:24:04 +0000

“if you are at all inclined to not vote because it is instrumentally irrational, then you are probably a very well-informed and intelligent voter”

I assume this relies on reading instrumentally irrational de dicto, no de re?

By: Michael Drake

Michael Drake — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:40:56 +0000

Powell's endorsement of Obama was totally about race.

Nonetheless, we need to have a black president.

That's why I'm voting for Alan Keyes.

By: stephen

stephen — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:16:03 +0000

yeah, whatevs. there is no wrong answer on this one. i only voted so i could say no on some pretty lame local ballot initiatives, and so went the straight “Lib” ticket to simplify the rest. in the end i am too many standard deviations from the mean to ever have a meaningful candidate to vote for, but the local elections actually do matter – kinda.

By: kevin

kevin — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:47:47 +0000

I am with you except that I wrote in Ron Paul and went down the line Republican. Usually I do mix up between parties, but my contrarian streak took over.

By: DWAnderson

DWAnderson — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:00:38 +0000

I voted exactly as you would have, albeit in Cook County, Illinois.

By: Steve M.

Steve M. — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:52:16 +0000

Will they not permit you to cast some kind of provisional ballot? Many jurisdictions allow you to do so if you moved after the registration deadline (although I realize you don't specify that you moved after the deadline). At any rate, it's worth a call to the board of elections.

By: James Madison Voter

James Madison Voter — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:45:13 +0000

I actually wrote in James Madison (i'm not kidding), one of my favorite presidents. I've voted straight libertarian every 4 years but Bob Barr was too crazy even by standards of the whack-a-doo Libertarian Party