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I've been watching lots of election coverage the past couple of days...on CNN and MTV and BET. It seems like everyone has been hyping the vote, and it's a good kind of hype. Musicians, punk rockers, athletes. Even Nickelodeon has been encouraging kids to "nag the vote," bugging their parents to go to the polls. I got three recorded calls today, and I actually enjoyed listening to them--John Kerry, Chris Rock, and Bill Clinton. The news is saying that there might be a record number of voters...and I'm going to be one of them.
This is going to be a very important election, and I'm glad it's happening now that I'm a little more politically mature. I think it would have been easy for me to just vote for Kerry because he isn't Bush, but I actually went to his webpage to check out his issues and have been reading up on him...I don't agree with everything he supports, but I agree with the most important things. It amazes me that some people choose one issue in the platform and then base their entire vote on that one thing -- like abortion. I don't like abortion either, but in the list of important political issues, it really isn't close to being the most important thing...I think that's an uneducated way to vote. I actually voted for Bush in the last election because I thought he was a Christian and I thought he was a charming person. But I voted for the wrong person. It turned out that he's not quite the type of Christian that I want to support...and he doens't come off as being too intelligent.
I don't know if Kerry will be a better president then George W, but I don't know how he could possibly be worse. I like him. I think he speaks well and his ideas resonate with me more than I thought they would a couple months ago. His ideas on education are awesome, he supports stem cell research, and he doens't hate gay people. He wasn't afraid to protest a war he fought in and he's not afriad to admit that sometimes people change their minds on important issues, like the war in Iraq. Bush wants to paint that as inconsistency. I think it's just a part of being a thinking human being.
So tomorrow, KERRY is getting my vote. I'm pumped that we live in a crucial state, so the chances of my vote actually mattering is higher than if I lived somewhere else. Ohio -- so unassuming and quiet, but right in the middle of the political action. Isn't that cool?