i voted today. did you?
WOW! voter turnout was excellent! it was hard as hell to navigate, with all the voters pulling in! i think everyone’s still mad as hell because of the coup in 2000. we don’t want that to happen again. this is the first mid-term elections i can remember where people were really talking about things, really getting amped to go and get some shit happening. what a great, great thing. i swear, sometimes… sometimes, i’m actually really proud to be an American. most of the time, i just hang my head in shame before the rest of the world, especially Canada and all those other countries that are seemingly vastly more enlightened of a people than we are, usually.
i just hope my team wins. i think we’ve got a real decent chance. i don’t want to live Under the Republican Thumb any longer.
i only really got two instances to decide on an independent, and one i had to turn away because 1) his stance on a couple of issues, and 2) i wanted a surer shot for Guv’nor. also, there was a judge or two i hadn’t had any research on… my fault, i guess. i feel bad about that, but i will not make an uninformed decision. obviously they were very local anyways, but still. and there was a municipal issue i had heard nothing about (no cemeteries within city limits – i voted no because i hate the current system; my poor grandmother, who didn’t want anything fancy anyway, was laid to rest in a section of the city graveyard where they won’t allow standing headstones, only inset ones, which is ridiculous… plus as overcrowded as they’re getting, they’re going to have to put a cemetery in Smith Park or someplace!
oh, and look what the taxpayers bought for me!
