Well folks, this is what its all about. The discussions have been great, the debates have been interesting, the forums have been hopping, the third parties have emerged and gotten their messages out, and today we vote.
I’m so excited. In the last couple of years, I’ve had a resurgence of patriotism. My country has been good to me. My country has helped make me who I am. My country sent my roommate to Yemen, and has brought him back from Yemen (thank God).
But most importantly, my country allows me to participate. And participate I will. I don’t care who you vote for (vote Gore), but I care if you vote.
There’s simply no excuse for not getting informed and yanking the ol’ lever. I will be losing my voting virginity tomorrow. (Sadly, the other type of virginity is still entirely intact.)
Already voted, by virtue of the wonderful, advanced Touch Screen system my district is trying out this year.
And tomorrow I get to spend election night at work – until at least midnight – with a bunch of cow-orkers whose politics are the polar opposite of my own. This oughta be fun :rolleyes:
I’m not quite a voting virgin… presidentially, yes (and don’t even START on those Clinton jokes, please), but I must admit - I voted in a rural school board/MO proposition on the right to carry or no in the spring of '99.
Out of curiosity, have any other college students out there noticed that other college students seem REALLY involved this election cycle? We’re fighting on my dorm floor over Gore/Bush, and I’ve even heard a healthy debate for the Nader vote-swapping issue in an Honors Humanities course.
Get out there and swing your levers, people! And whether you’re Democratic, Republican, Green, Libertarian… whatever - Happy Election Day!
I would say that is highly campus-dependent. My school tends to be very politically apathetic; I don’t think I’ve heard (seriously) one mention of the elections outside of conversations with my roommate and one of my bosses (other than random people, most apparently not students, handing out flyers and such on campus). There are signs up here and there, but for the most part one would hardly know there was an election at all.
Except…Gore held one of his “rallies” on campus a week and a half ago (I’m in one of those “swing states”). The aforementioned apathy made us all rather amused at his choice of venues. I went with a bunch of my friends simply because he was here. (I had already mailed my absentee ballot, so there wasn’t much changing my vote.) He got comically low response when he tried to get noise out of the crowd; at least having a couple of major unions well-represented got him a little bit.
As a side note, having the vice-president on your campus is a royal pain. Corridors were restricted, building exits were closed off, parking areas were blocked, etc. Also, the Gore people actually removed (with crane, I’m told–they had it for the banners they were putting up) Nader signs some grad students had hung outside of their windows. Grr. (not that I’m pro-Nader, but they had no right to do that. They parked themselves in the middle of several multi-story academic buildings, and had no right to expect to control the whole area. It wasn’t that obvious anyway, and I don’t think the cameras could have even see the signs from the designated media area).
I stood outside at a busy intersection last evening with my signs.
I will be handing out literature in front of the voting place (right across from my house) today.
Been voting for 20 years, first time I cared.
I sent in my absentee ballot two weeks ago, so today is kind of weird for me. I love voting, and to not have the experience of going into the booth and all is kind of a letdown.
I have a couple words of advice to everyone. If your’re voting for Bush, get out there and make your voice heard. If you’re voting for Gore, don’t bother. I…uh…think he’s got it pretty much wrapped up. Yeah, that’s it.