I am so thankful that today is election day. Oh. My. GAWD! Has this election “season” gone on forever for everyone else as well?
Don’t get me wrong. I am patriotic. I absolutely believe that everone who can vote MUST vote in all elections. I filled out my ballot at home a couple weeks ago, with my 8 year old son by my side. I got to explain every reason for each selection I made. I even got to explain why I voted yay or nay on the gazillion judges we get to choose to retain or not this time around. The ballot was enormous! It took almost 2 hours to complete it. I can’t imagine doing that at the polling station. Even with a cheat sheet, ICK!
But with all that said, I so can’t wait for all the name-calling, history bashing, blah blah blah bluckety bluck bluck to be over with. I’m so done with political commercials. And political calls. Sorry, but if a machine-recorded voice mail sways someone to vote one way or another, they haven’t done ANY homework and can’t possibly make an informed decision when voting. I guess I got to use these commercials and calls as a way to let my son know that you can’t vote based solely on what you see/hear on the news or a phone message or out of someone else’s mouth. You have to do your own research. It takes time. It takes effort. But it’s well worth it in the end.
Every vote counts. Please get out and vote!
TWO HOURS!!??? DUDE! I stood in line for an hour this morning (much faster than I was anticipating) and it literally took me all of 30 seconds to fill out my ballot!
I am SO with you on this! I’m not even American, but we still get a lot of the commercials and presedential debates and all that — and I am so ready for it all to end. At the same time, I do realize what a huge decision this is for all of my friends south of the border (and that in some ways, it does affect us up here in Canada too)…but I’m ready for life to get back to ‘normal.’
You said it!
I went to vote this morning. I arrived at 6:55 a.m., the doors opened at 7:00 a.m. and I voted and was driving out of the parking lot at 7:10 a.m. Now we just wait and see!! Love… Mom
Luckily when I went to vote there was no line!!
I am so glad that this campaign and election is over. It seemed entirely too long!!