Vote. Do it. Get off your ass, make the time, go in, and participate in this country’s future.
Don’t let the last-second campaign ads and stump speeches dissuade you from voting (or persuade you as to whom to vote for/against — check out FactCheck.org for the skinny on both sides). Do some research, make a decision, and do it. Vote on issues. Vote on character. Vote with your head, or vote with your gut. But be a part of it.
There are plenty of idiots out there who are dumber and less-informed than you, and they’re voting. There are people out there whose opinions you simply cannot stand, and they’re voting. Don’t let theirs be the only voices heard.
Even if you don’t know who to vote for in the presidential race, then vote on local issues. Ballot propositions. Your local US Representative. A US Senator, if one’s at stake. Your state races are important, too — in some ways, just as important for your day-to-day life.
Each vote counts. Each lack of vote “counts,” too. Individually, in some cases, in aggregate in others.
If you agree with my own selections in the Elections of 2004, then vote with me. If you disagree with them — vote against me.
Just vote, dammit.
A good sign.
This year there were more people at my precinct then I’ve ever seen before. Behind me there were three high school girls voting for the first time (“Hey we’re blowing off Homeroom. Our teacher told us to GOTV, so we are.”). There were more people in the morning then when I was a poll watcher in ’92. When I voted, my Voter number (191) was higher then when I voted in the evening in ’00 (175).
I bet myself a hundred pazoozas that you’d link to the new Dork Tower strip.
I lost.
Well, first off, let me link to Doyce, who said much of the above, but more nicely and effectively.
As to Dork Tower — hadn’t gotten to it yet today. And, now … heh.
Thanks Avocet, hadn’t checked today either.
One can only imagine the sounds coming out of Igor’s Booth…
Now don’t spend all of those pazoozas that you paid yourself for losing all in one place.
You know…
This is the first Election that has me feeling all antsy like Christmas used to when I was a kid.
Odd.
As much as I want to All Be Over, and as much as I know that nothing meaningful will be coming out about the results until later tonight — I’ll still be glued to the tube this evening, flipping between channels, listening to newscasters natter on meaninglessly to cover their lack of information.
Just can’t help myself.
Well, since Boulder County is using a optical scan/paper ballot system instead of the very effciant punch card system it had used over the past 24 years (the machines stopped being made 10 years ago, and there were no longer any parts for them), BC’s votes won’t be done being counted until sometime wednesday evening.
So I’m going be very, very antsy over the next day and half.
And yes I’ll be watching with worm on tongue this evening too.