One man, one vote
Whew, the United States is waking up from a long, national nightmare. The Democrats have the House, the majority of the governors' seats and a very good chance at getting the Senate. I hope that they have the wisdom to steer the country onto a reasonable course, holding tight until we can get a President in 2008 who has the vision to lead the country into the future.
As we wait for the bitter recount in Virginia, I am grateful that I changed my travel plans this week. I needed to be out of state and didn't have enough time to arrange for an absentee ballot, putting me in a position where I would have been unable to vote yesterday. At first it didn't bother me. I had not voted before. But as I thought more about what had been happening to the country since Bush had gotten in and remembered the close loss of Al Gore in Florida, I changed my mind. I disappointed an old friend that I hadn't seen in a while and stayed in town one one more day, leaving at 6:30 in the morning, just so I could cast my ballot for Jim Webb.
We're now in a position where control of the Senate could come down to a single seat--Virginia, where Webb is winning by a scant few thousand votes. My vote could make a significant difference.
Posted on November 08, 2006
