What Komos said -- VOTE!

I've been a Dem all my life and I will die a Dem, but now my state has gone all red and there is no going back. I will pick and choose and mostly vote my conscience, but it will do little to stem the red-tide that I am swept up in now. But! I haven't missed a vote in 39 years and this Tues will be no exception. The right for a woman to choose to have control over her own body is on the ballot too. I know how I will vote and that will be for the right to choose, but it is very conservative religious here. I already know how that is going to turn out.

Sorry you're stuck where you are - was just telling someone below I'm so grateful to live in NYC where people aren't fucking insane righties.

Well said, and thanks for it.

Well said and exactly correct! Thank you for this timely message.

Done. Put it in a drop box weeks ago.

Posted my absentee ballot in Oct. - straight blue! 7@=e

I'm way ahead of you, honey. I voted a week ago early just down the street from me! I only wish those obnoxious ads would go away now since I've voted.

I am SO GLAD I live in NYS in NYC, a very blue place to be...I'm also SO GLAD I don't watch broadcast or cable TV - I think I've only seen ONE political ad this season and that was by mistake.

Then again, I've been getting like a zillion Emails everyday from Dems begging for contributions - it's evidently up to me personally whether or not our democracy survives...

Will be voting on Election Day here. Gonna have my daughter with me to help her learn good civic virtue.

Dominus tecum

Good idea!

I used to go with my mom when she voted. Back in the day NYC had these weird voting machines where you pulled a large lever that closed curtains behind you so you could vote in private by pulling down a little lever next to each candidate you were voting for. There was something exciting about closing that curtain that made voting seem like an adventure. (Unfortunately, by the time I was old enough to vote they'd gotten rid of those machines.)

I've heard that hardly any schools teach Civics anymore; a real tragedy, especially considering how much misinformation about this is currently out there.

Those were the same kind of machines they had in Virginia. I did get to use it once before I moved to PA. PA always had touch screens. Two years ago they printed out the ballot which we then carried over to the machine to actually count it. I let my daughter carry it over. Helped make the experience fun. I recall going with my folks when they voted but it was really boring then as there was nothing to do but stand in the line.

There definitely is; always good to keep a skeptical head to sort through it all. Otherwise we're just like folks stuck in Plato's cave staring at the shadows on the wall and thinking it's real. As I've told my daughter, it's important to vote, even if the person you voted for doesn't win. If you don't vote, then don't complain about the outcome. Civic responsibility; without it what's the point of having a vote at all?

Dominus tecum