Thursday, August 26, 2004

To vote or not to vote?

Maybe if I could at least register to vote online, then I would. I know that you can fill out the forms, print out the forms and send them in, but I don't have a printer. Besides, I really don't want either of the candidates to be our president. It seems that the strategy that is taken on elections these days is "vote for the person running against the win that you don't want to win." That's exactly what I would end up doing. I am not a big fan of GW, so I would vote for Kerry just so Bush wouldn't win. I really liked Clinton, Matt and I get in heated discussions about this because he did not like him so much.

I guess if you want to slap a label on me, you'd call me a liberal, but I don't really think an affiliation is that important. Any candidate can say anything in the attempt to be elected, and how are we supposed to know if they're going to uphold what they say? They also say that you don't have the right to complain if you don't vote, and I know that every vote counted in the last election, but I still feel like it doesn't matter.

I feel guilty for not voting, but I still don't know if I will or not this year.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

My sentiments EXACTLY!!! One year I wasted my vote on Ross Perot. I really liked some of his ideas but I also knew there wasn't a chance in hell that he could win. Mom