Party Time

Tomorrow is the day! Voter turnout is expected to be higher than any presidential election in recent memory. The poll numbers are all over the map, and are changing daily.

In the end, despite all of the endless focus on the personal views, values and capabilities of the men (and woman) candidates on both sides, millions will go and vote for the candidate which belongs to the party to which they most identify. The party that most exemplifies their personal beliefs about how to govern the USA and her peoples. That is what we do. We vote for parties….especially at that level.

I have spent too many hours trying to figure out how seemingly bright and patriotic people could vote for one, Barack Hussein Obama. But no matter what else the man is, he’s the democratic nominee, and that’s enough for democrats, period. No reason in their minds to discuss it any further. And I’m sure that people have thought the same of me and John McCain. Maybe they even recall that McCain was near the bottom of my list during the primaries. But that doesn’t matter. They know that I’d vote to elect him, or any of the other eight or nine candidates we had back in the primaries. We’re all voting for parties and platforms really.

Maybe all of this party voting is the proper thing anyway. After all, the president only has so much power. He’s just one part, albeit the most important part, of the overall. What we really want is that he or she is a member of the larger power that is our party ideal.

In any case, it will all be done by Wednesday morning and the country will take whatever it gets. Some will be ecstatic and hopeful, some will miserable and worried, and despite the high turnout, a majority of American’s will still simply shrug their shoulders and think that it’s just more of the same no matter who’s in charge. If only that were true.