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Or did I? Or did I? I have no idea, really. After moving to Colorado this summer, I, of course, took two months to send in my voter-registration form, beating the deadline by only a week or so. Then, this morning, when I tried to confirm my registration online, some…

Snoopy rocks the vote. This morning at around 5:30 a.m., I switched on Channel 9’s morning show in the middle of an excerpt from a vintage Peanuts animated TV special that went on for several minutes without any commentary whatsoever. I wondered: Did anchor Gary Shapiro need to use the…

Tomorrow, will it be morning in America again? 10:16 a.m., November 4, 2008: Election day finally arrived, with its fears of people lined up around the block at polling places. But I dunno… I woke up feeling calm, went through my usual routine and now sit at my desk at…

Don’t you miss those hanging chads? It happened again. I woke up this morning, filled with the sense of wildly inflated self-import that comes from voting in a historic election in a hotly contested swing state. At around 9:20 a.m., I leisurely walked across the street to my polling place,…

Good citizens preparing to do what good citizens do at Nativity Lutheran Church. Everything went smoothly earlier today at Nativity Lutheran Church in Commerce City, which, according to a sign affixed to one side of the double doors, is Adams County voting center number 37. A sign taped to the…

An image from Edison Elementary’s website. I was looking for any opportunity to become a disenfranchised voter as I hit the polls this morning at 8am. Line too long? Disenfranchisement! Election workers not friendly? Disenfranchisement! Pencil not sharp enough? Dis-en-fran-fucking-chisement!!! Unfortunately, my mission was hampered from the beginning. The long…

Red Rocks Elementary. When I walked into Red Rocks Elementary (my polling place) at about 9:25 this morning, there were two or three voters there already — not even coming close to filling up the twenty or so booths available. Which meant I got more attention than I’ve ever had…

Bye-bye, A.I. So the big NBA trade yesterday happened right here in Denver: Allen Iverson for, most notably, hometowner Chauncey Billups and former Nugget Antonio McDyess (plus Cheikh Samb). Nothing against Billups, who if not as good an all-around player as Iverson, at least has a good narrative to bolster…

Can you feel that burning hope? It was a bit lonely at the Barnum Rec Center polling station, at 360 Hooker Street in Five Points. In the couple of hours after polls opened at 7 a.m., roughly 85 people meandered in to vote, and around 9:20 a.m., most of the…

Vote “yes” on Amendments 47, 49 and 54 — or else union operatives will shoot this dog. Believe your eyes. What you see above is an actual campaign ad (or at least a satire of one) courtesy of the Denver Metro Young Republicans, whose cleverness inspired an article in today’s…

Hank Eng. In “Did You Know Mike Coffman is Running for Congress?,” a blog published on October 6, I noted that Coffman, who’s hoping to fill Tom Tancredo’s old seat in the 6th Congressional District, had been almost entirely absent from the airwaves at that point owing to the impossibility…

Keep away from children. If you’re a subscriber to the Rocky Mountain News, your Tuesday edition arrived in this nifty newspaper condom. The large print on the side you see above reads, “Vote Freedom First: NRA Political Victory Fund: Bob Schaffer for U.S. Senate.” The fine print adds, “Paid For…

An image from Heritage United Methodist Church’s website. Here’s a voting update from my wife, Deb, who cast her ballot at the Heritage United Methodist Church on South Simms in Littleton. As the principal of a school, she gets to work early, so she always arrives at the polling station…

It’s Judgment Day. The Moment of Truth. The Tuesday That Will Determine Whether Or Not All Those Threats to Move to Canada Will Make You Into a Liar, or Maybe a Canadian. Anyway, it’s big — which makes it as good a time as any to get drunk with friends…

Okay, the Highland line isn’t quite this long — but it’s getting there. I’m waiting to vote at the United Way on the edge of Highland. People started arriving at 6 a.m., there were thirty in line by a quarter of seven, and another thirty showed up in the last…

Jack Black posing with a photo of Tenacious D after a press conference at the Fillmore Auditorium this afternoon. Fall back on the following blogs. Today in Backbeat Online: • Tenacious D and the Beastie Boys want you to get off your asses and vote. • Patrick Park and Andy…

The $140,000 in delinquent property taxes owed by a company registered to Troubleshooter Tom Martino was not paid to the City of Denver Treasurer’s office by the Friday, October 31 deadline. How do we know? The debt on the nineteen parcels along Welton Street near Five Points has been posted…

Two Walsh, Colorado residents are seen chatting in an NPR image. At midday on the eve of the 2008 presidential election, National Public Radio’s home page spotlighted an unlikely place: Walsh, Colorado, located in the southeast corner of the state. Why? NPR correspondent David Greene uses the community (population: 700)…

Face the State’s Brad Jones. Face the State, a news website with a conservative edge, has been getting plenty of attention in mainstream newspapers of late. Check out “Were Democrats Dumb Enough to Write This ‘Idiot’ Memo?,” an October 8 Message column, which deals in part with a story that…

Nick Roberts. Much has been written about the enormous volunteer army assembled on behalf of Barack Obama in swing states; this Los Angeles Times story about Ohio is only one example. But judging by the campaign’s focus on making sure that my nineteen-year-old son Nick votes, the stories may actually…