Election Day!

(Still working on the Ireland blog(s).  Hopefully they will be up later.)

This blog gets a little political at the end, so if you don't like that kind of thing, don't read it.

It's Election Day, and there is no excuse for people to not get out and vote.  After working on a campaign all summer, I am going crazy because I am not around for today.  If I were home I would be going crazy too, but today that ocean seems so much bigger. 

I lived the campaign this summer: Put a ton of miles on my family's cars, walked door to door in 9 different counties, suffered through blistering heat, made thousands of phone calls, had doors slam in my face, had people hang up on me, got yelled at, got barked at, almost got attacked by a chicken, and had the time of my life.  The last one may seem strange in that list, but if there is one thing I learned this summer, it is that I am meant to spend my life in the political field.  It is something I truly connect with.  Today is the culmination of hard work from so many people.  Compared to others, I barely did anything for the campaign.  Today is what we worked for, and I am bummed to have to miss it.

I would not have put in the time this summer if I did not believe in what I was doing.  Senator Demuzio is such an amazing person.  She has done so much for the 49th district, and she needs to be sent back to Springfield for the good of the people. 

Getting one partisan thought out there, we need the Democrats to be victorious today.  I am not the biggest fan of every Democrat on the ticket this year, but compared to the alternatives, the Democrats are the best candidates.  There are some pretty radical and frightening people on the tickets this year, and I fear for our state financially, and especially socially, if they are elected.

There you go.  Political blog.  I was going to go much more in-depth, but I fortunately thought it through before posting the other one.  The main idea I want to get out there today is that everyone needs to vote.

I voted absentee, so I don't have my amazing sticker.  Everyone needs to go and get one for me ok? :)  VOTE!

~Taylor