Today was Election Day. That meant a day off of school (yay!) but meant ... it is the midterm election, and a rather dismal one at that. ( Cut for political stuff )
Opinion drom the Far South (of the continenet, that is): a vote is never wasted. Even if you know your choice will lose, you're still making a point. For our last presidential elections (2011), I voted a candidate who got less than half a million votes countrywide after she had been the runner up in 2007. I didn't care, actually I felt good. It should be interesting to find out why worldwide there's been such a polarization in the political parties while most people just want a moderate candidate who can help them live a little better.
I don't regret my vote for Mizeur in retrospect. She requested her supporters not write her in so that the Statehouse would remain in Democratic control. But I find the specter of a Republican in the Statehouse (which still has two houses of the General Assembly that are strongly Democratic) far less frightening than the notion that we'll keep getting these lukewarm pseudo-Democrats as candidates rather than anyone truly progressive. That was the point I found I wanted to make more than anything. :)
And Anthony Brown (the Democratic candidate) lost by a large margin in a heavily Democratic state after polling ahead of the Republican challenger. So I hope that that will make the Maryland Democratic party think twice before putting forward human dishwater like him again! :D
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And Anthony Brown (the Democratic candidate) lost by a large margin in a heavily Democratic state after polling ahead of the Republican challenger. So I hope that that will make the Maryland Democratic party think twice before putting forward human dishwater like him again! :D
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