Be in the minority on November 2 – VOTE
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The majority of Americans of voting age will not vote in the up-coming mid-term elections. In 2006, the national average was just over 40 percent, which beat the figure of 39.7 percent in the previous midterm in 2002. If Meg Whitman can be bothered to vote for herself in the California gubernatorial race, it will be the first she has voted for about 30 years. Pathetic.
If you don’t like any candidate or any party, write a candidate in. Write yourself in, but exercise your right. Australia leads the western democracies in turnout with 95 per cent and western Europe averages 77 per cent with some nations into the high 80s.
Put simply this is a democratic election and a level of popular acclaim is always necessary for any rule to be sustained. Whether you vote for or against the ruling party or stay home, all must obey its dictates. Thus the Quaker must pay “his” share of the nuclear weapons program just as surely as the walking advertisement for his party who waved a flag at the last party rally.
Democracy is far from perfect, but it is probably best the method nations have stumbled across to run and maintain society, and voting is the key component. The dark side of politics might prefer it if elections were abolished, so time consuming. The politicians could be representatives for life and appoint each to positions of higher and higher power. Lets not sink that low. A 40 percent turnout in the last mid-term is low enough.
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I should be getting my ballot here pretty soon. I’m a permanent absentee voter, so I get it, take my time mainly with the propositions CA puts on the ballot and mail it in the week before. This way I volunteer on actual election day, driving people to the polls like I have been doing since I could drive.
Vote! Vote! Vote!
I just wrote an indefensibly loooong response to Oso’s piece so I’ll keep it short here.
Yes. For God sake, and the sake of our fellow citizens who don’t know any better, vote and vote Democrat.
AND HARRASS THE SHIT OUT OF THEM. DEVOTE AN AFTERNOON TO BUGGING YOUR SENATOR and CONGRESSMAN.
-SJ
I voted for Frank Zappa one time and a fine local journalist another. In one town where I resided, in a Mayoral election a write in actually won.
Failing to vote is the ultimate cop-out, IMHO.
Yes it is.