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[prog]

Is it tacky to say "Go vote for X today" versus "Go vote today", when addressing a wide-ish audience?

Today I saw the latter, candidate-neutral message repeated by many friends who I know voted for X, and who hope that enough other people vote for X as well.

I tweeted "Please go vote for X if you care about Issue Y" today, before I saw any of my friends' posts. While several are in-line with me, enough others take the neutral tack that I semi-regret my overt stance...

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

If you're willing to take on an argument, it's perfectly fine to have and express an opinion. So long as you're speaking as you, not as your company or something.

[ex-colorwhe.livejournal.com]

there is nothing wrong with having a position.

[treacle-well.livejournal.com]

It's not tacky.

[leighjen.livejournal.com]

I think both ways are fine. :-)

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Either way. If you're rude about it, it's rude. Otherwise, not so much. I think people pussyfoot around a bit too much.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

"Please go vote for X if you care about Issue Y" seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. (And anyway, if someone reading cares differently about Issue Y than you, then they can also take it as a message to go vote for X instead.)

[novalis.livejournal.com]

Not tacky.

[radiotelescope.livejournal.com]

Context, right? In tweeting, where nobody can outshout you, there's little reason to avoid stating your position. On a web forum, you might start a boil of stupidity. If you're posting on your employer's chat system, it would be very tacky *to* take sides.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Even non-partisan-appearing reminders to vote were implicitly pro-Dem, since a low turnout would have helped Brown more. At least that was my ulterior motive. :)