Don’t Count My Vote
I waited on line. Punched the ballot. And now I already regret my vote. I am a registered republican. I wanted to vote for McCain but I couldn’t vote for Palin. And no matter how hard I tried to convince myself to do it, I couldn’t bring myself to it. So I did what I suspect the majority of this country did, and I voted for Barack Obama, and I already regret it.
I regret it because I should have voted for Bob Barr, Alan Keyes, Ralph Nadar or any of the other Independent candidates that are on the ballot. California is not a battleground state. It is already going to Obama. Which means my vote doesn’t matter.
But if I had voted for and Independent candidate, then I would have been truly voting for what this country represents, the independent voice. The one that says our country isn’t defined by the two party system. That the Ross Perot’s of the world can be heard. That independent thought is not dead. If I had voted for neither Obama nor McCain, I would have been insuring that in future elections, those voices would continue to be heard.
But I didn’t, I drank the coolaid. And now I regret it.
