Just in case you have been living in a cave this is a reminder that you must be done voting by 9PM on Tuesday night. Anything after that doesn’t count. So organize a group and get out and vote for your favorite Democrat.

Once this election is over, remember to vote with your dollars. Support businesses that support your values. You deserve it.

Did you hear any news between the candidate commercials?

1) Oh the humanity! What small eastern Iowa community is considering banning dogs from their park?

2) “You messed with the wrong redhead” said Kaci Hickox boyfriend. Ms. Hickox has been ordered to be quarantined by 2 governors even though she shows no signs of what?

3) Ted Cruz said he still loves his iPhone even though what CEO came out as gay this week?

4) Oregon and Alaska will be the next states to vote on what initiative this Tuesday?

5) Orbital Science, whose rocket blew up on the launch pad in Virginia this week, were using engines built for what purpose?

6) Out in Hawai’i what slow motion disaster is taking place?

7) The corn harvest in Iowa stays behind schedule. What is the reason given for the slow corn harvest?

8) The son of what nationally prominent politician said his Dad will “more than likely run for president” during an interview by ABC news?

9) While Republicans decry the economy, government statistics showed that the GDP grew at what annual rate in the 3rd quarter?

10) “She has disqualified herself” Hillary Clinton said about Joni Ernst because Ernst had done what?

11) What former major candidate said she might run for office again just to annoy the “haters”?

12) What small Iowa city had some major discrepancies in utility payments uncovered by a state audit, but lack of a paper trail made it hard to determine exactly what happened?

13) According to opensecrets.org outside spending in Iowa’s senate race has topped how much?

14) On Wednesday the Federal Reserve announced the end of what program that pumped money into the economy during the “Great Recession”?

15) In Iowa (and across the country it seems) the most popular Halloween costumes were based on what movie?

Speaking of scary things, what scares me the most is what happens inside those automated voting machines. We can’t have truly honest elections until we have paper trails and random audits.

Answers:

1) Durant

2) ebola

3) Tim Cook of Apple

4) legalization of marijuana

5) They were 40 year old Soviet built engines for the Soviet moon program

6) lava flow from a volcano toward the small town of Pahoa

7) moisture in the corn is still too high

8) Jeb Bush – said by son George P. Bush

9) 3.5% very solid

10) refused to meet with newspaper editorial board in Des Moines, Cedar Rapids and Dubuque

11) Sara Palin

12) West Liberty

13) $60 million

14) quantitative easing

15) Frozen