Please vote. My personal preference would be that you vote for Democracts, but vote for whomever you believe best represents you.

Locally I am voting a near straight Democratic ticket. Neither the Republicans nor Greens put up any viable candidates, and I don't believe in voting for someone just to send a message. The one non-Democratic vote I'll pull is for our local state Senate where the runner-up in the Democratic primary is running on the WFP line.

Nationally, I've given support to Bernie Sanders, Tammy Duckworth, Ned Lamont, Gary Trauner, Darcy Burner, Jon Tester, Hillary Clinton, Christine Cegelis, Nick Lampson, John Murtha, Steve Young, Tim Mahoney, Louise Slaughter, and Claire McCaskill of VT, IL, CT, WY, WA, MT, NY, IL, TX, PA, CA, FL, NY, and MO.

They won't all win (well, at least one in that list lost a primary), but some might.

You know, it wasn't until the 2004 election cycle that I actually registered as a Democrat. It took three years of Bush and the Lott/Frist-Hastert show to convince me to get involved, to actually sign up within a party, to vote in primaries. I do not think the country is doing well, I do not think that we are safer, and I do not think these clowns currently in control are going to do well for us.