I think we’re all there - on one side or the other. There’s little point in a campaign.Yeah, I'm not sure what kind of info could come out on Budd or Beasley that would change my mind about who I intend to vote for in that race. I'm much closer in sharing fundamental values with one of the candidates and not the other. My mind is made up at this point and I'm OK with it. I need to do more research on the hyperlocal candidates, but that won't take much time.
And I’m sure to 90% of people the other choice is a monster.Yeah, I'm not sure what kind of info could come out on Budd or Beasley that would change my mind about who I intend to vote for in that race.
It sure as hell doesn't seem to be about helping the majority of us.I think it’s almost more wanting to see the other side lose than it is about getting your own way.
What is this, Chicago?Vote early and vote often!!!
I mean ... kind of but not really. This thing we do where we treat elections and polling as some sort of horse race isn't really rooted in anything other than custom. The candidates and their positions won't change between today (opening of early polling) and November 8th. Maybe you'll learn some sort of obscured background information, but while that does happen occasionally that's actually pretty rare. I'm neither Team Red nor Team Blue so I have to take my homework pretty seriously to be an engaged voter, and I've never once regretted voting early.Isn’t voting early like deciding who won the game after the second period?
I get that everyone has their minds made up but isn’t that mindset part of the problem?
It’s like we’re fans of a team - which it shouldn’t be. We should listen to the case being made by the candidates and choose based on the totality of the information available at the end.
Instead we vote for Team Red or Team Blue so we don’t need to pay attention to what they say I guess. Happens both ways but it’s 100% of why we can’t believe someone could vote for “insert your monster here”. Better than voting for the other team I suppose.
[steps down from soap box and walks sadly away]
Thr Panthers wanted a 1st rounder but a package of 4 is decent haul for a guy with durability issues.As much as I love Christian, I'm surprised that he can pull in that many draft picks
To be fair, he won't have anywhere near the workload there compared to Charlotte. If SF manages that well, it could work out nicely.Oh sure ... a 1st would have been nice, but with an entire offense to rebuild you're always going to be fine with 4 picks ... including a 2nd rounder. That's good value for a player who's not helping you do anything other than sell tickets for the next two seasons. BIG roll of the dice for the Niners. Counting on McCaffrey to stay healthy enough over two seasons to justify that outlay is presuming a LOT.
I mean, I hope it does ... not strenuously of course, because I couldn't give two figs about the Niners and their chances. But from here on, Godspeed to young CMC. That said, workload management or no, the chances of him playing every game between now and the end of his contract are pretty low.To be fair, he won't have anywhere near the workload there compared to Charlotte. If SF manages that well, it could work out nicely.
And watch the Panthers blow them all on players who are out of the league in four years.That's a lot of draft picks for a guy who averages maybe 4 games a season of healthy football.