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November 2, 2004
Election Day Thoughts
I've been voting since 1980 and this is the first time I've been actively involved in campaigning. It's not as though I never cared, anyone who knows me knows how closely I follow the news and how passionately I take my politics. So why did I get involved this time?
The short answer is that George W Bush is the first president since Ronald Reagan that I have felt strongly about. I despised Gore in 2000, but didn't feel that passionately about Bush at the time. Bob Dole? Well, "it was his turn", but he wasn't going to beat Clinton and everyone knew it. George H W Bush was my hero during the Gulf War but then proceeded to squander the rest of his presidency.
I'm not going to go into why I think George W Bush is better than John Kerry to lead our nation, for an answer to that read the rest of this blog.
Today I stood outside one of our local voting places and handed out GOP literature. Loudoun County Virginia is fairly Republican, so I'm not worried about losing the state. The congressman that I've been working for these past few weeks, Frank Wolf, will also win handily. But there is the popular vote to consider, and every bit helps.
And then there is the main reason I've been out campaigning. Sure, I've sent money. They have my number on that score and I get the usual dozen mailings and emails each month. But there's been this nagging feeling over the past few months that this time I had to do more. "Time to get off your butt and do something," I told myself. If George Bush does loose, I could not look myself in the mirror the next day and say to myself "You did not lift a finger to help."
And I must say that I had a lot of fun campaigning. Today, in front of the polls, there I was, face-to-face with the Democrats handing out there literature. Arthur Chrenkoff (in a post of his that I can't find at the moment) was right, there is a certain comradere with the opposition in these situations. There were many times when turnout lighened up, and we used these times to chat it up with each other. We talked about everything but the election, of course.
But enough with that. It's time to grab a bite and get off to the party. I'll be on-line later tonight, regardless of how things turn out.
Here's hoping.
Posted by Tom at November 2, 2004 6:23 PM
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