election

my boss walked into the office this morning, and the first thing he said was, "did you vote?" and i said yes, over a week ago. "good girl," he said.

i read a myspace bulletin from a friend ranting how wolf blitzer goes on and on about how our 18-30 age group has poor voter turnout. which i find absurd, because there is not a single person i can think of that I'm friends with who is not voting, or has not expressed some sort of political view or question. to prove it, i checked facebook and forgive this awful small picture but i couldn't figure out how to do it otherwise, but i clicked on the "friend status" and made it so nearly 200 statuses showed up. all but about 20 or so had statuses saying they voted for so and so, and yes on this, no on that, vote Obama, vote McCain. And it was within a one hour time span.

so forgive me, when i respectfully disagree with people saying our generation is blase about politics and this election. i think our generation has paid more attention to this election than any other election we've had. granted, many people are voting for the first time, but we understand the importance of casting our votes. last night at swim practice, a high school girl i coach with and i were talking with another coach, easily 20+ years older than us. we were talking about the different candidates and the propositions, and how we voted absentee (she's 18, an older HS student) and the older coach said, "yeah, i don't know if I'm going to vote. i don't really care, and i don't know who i want to vote for. it doesn't matter anyway." isn't that what others are saying our generation says? yet here is someone who is IN that accusing generation saying these kinds of things.

then again, she also thought prop 8 was solely about polygamy. maybe she shouldn't vote.

as for me, i'll follow the election tonight on my cell phone while i enjoy Ingrid Michaelson live in concert at the HOB, celebrating a lovely 5 months with my guy, and a change for our country.