Besides being almost fluent in igpay atinlay (only in writing), I am also a dual citizen. I live in the United States, though, so I can only vote in the U.S. Which I have done (on Friday, while on midterm break). For McCain/Palin. Boo-yah, world! An under-40-year-old middle-class citizen north of Texas CAN vote Republican. So, there.
I looked up the Canadian election that happened last week, and found some good results: Stephen Harper smashed the Liberals completely! The Liberal Party only got 26.24% of the vote! If you put the New Democratic Party and the Bloc Quebecois together, they beat the Liberals. Awesome! The Conservatives got 37.63%, which for many other countries may seem like very little, but you should look at this link to find out how amazing this election was: CBC map. The party system in Canada is quite different from the bipartisan country of the U.S.A.
If you haven’t voted yet, remember to vote on election day (November 4 in the U.S. this time around). If you have the right to vote, exercise it! We have the ability to chose our leaders. Let us chose wisely. Our government is BY the PEOPLE. We are the government, in a sense. We appoint whom we chose.
Some people don’t vote because they think their votes don’t count. They’re idiots. If no ordinary person’s vote counted, the election results would be as follows: 0 votes Republican, 0 votes Democrat, military coup ensues. We have elections for a purpose. You are purposeful. Purposify yourself. Although, some votes are more critical. I’m from Missouri. My vote is even more important. If you watch the news at all, you’ve heard of “battleground states”. Missouri is one of them. I found a website that states it perfectly:
Texas brags that it’s a “whole other country,” but Missouri proudly declares that it is the whole country. Talk to a Missourian about the state’s politics for more than a few minutes, and the words “microcosm” or “representativeness” are likely to surface. During a three-day swing through the state last week, I discovered that an inner demographer resides within nearly every politically minded Missourian: The state is a perfect blend of North, South, East, and West, I was told again and again. Missouri was born in compromise in 1820, and it’s still that way today. It has the same percentage of African-Americans as the nation as a whole, the same percentage of union workers, the same rural/urban mix, and on down the line. And invariably, the one fact that every Missourian knows surfaced: With the exception of the time it foolishly cast its lot with Adlai Stevenson in 1956, in every presidential election since 1900 Missouri has proudly voted for the winner. The implication is that you might as well call off the balloting in the other 49 states as a cost-saving measure.
Source: Slate Magazine
So, yeah, I’m special. I may just be the deciding vote in a national election.
