It could just be me, but this is one of the more depressing election days as I can remember, in my thus far, short voting career. If the dem's win everything it will be by default...because most of us were too depressed to vote and stayed home, if people are feeling the way I do. I never wanted to start voting by absentee and mailing it in. Part of the fun and the nostalgia was going with my dad to the voting booth where my mother always volunteered to work for the day for $40 bucks, I think, and stand next to my dad and watch him vote and explain it all to me. From the time I was 8, my dad and I always had a date after school to go and vote together. It was so exciting and I felt so good I couldn't wait to be 18. Actually voting in a booth made me feel so patriotic and American when I was a kid, I never wanted to give up the feeling of voting in person, and I also met my neighbors I never normally met standing in line. For 15 minutes I felt like I lived in a community. For me it was like singing the national anthem at a baseball game...it just felt good, like I was doing my job. I had to do this in person for the all the people in countries who can't because...darn it...it still is a big deal...demoralizing as elections have become. However, I think this is my last vote from a booth...for some reason I just don't feel like it anymore at least not this year.
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This isn't your daddy's political process. When Clinton was reelected, I thought I'd never vote again. And the last time around I stayed home. Our liberal-run public school system is turning out generation after generation of dummies, while the Republicans have lost sight of why their party was founded. But if every person of character opts out, it will be much, much worse. Voting is not only our right, but our duty. I was given a lot of duties during my time in the military that I didn't like, but I performed them anyway -- and to the best of my ability. It won't be too long before you'll be instilling that pride in your own offspring. Another duty, but a good one.
Tonto- Kimosabe is absoulutely 100% correct. It is our responsibility as Americans to vote- and vote we must.
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