A PartyLess Victory (The Only Political Thing I'll Ever Say)

[mrwubbles]

It doesn't matter if you're Republican or Democrat or Independent. Whether you were rooting for McCain/Palin or Obama/Biden, I think the victory is party-less.


Analysts are projecting this might be the highest voter turn out since JFK. I eagerly await the numbers. Whether or not mathematical, it's true, within a personal level, I think at the very least, we got people thinking.

My sisters, both who barely even watch the news, had the right to vote for nearly a decade or more. They went out, waited three hours to vote yesterday.

My mother, despite the racial difficulties and disdain getting to a poll, voted that day. And this is a woman who has been disillusioned so many times that she thought why bother to vote, it wouldn't count because non-English speaking chinese voters were treated like crap. I switched districts when I could vote so I wouldn't have to put up with it in Chinatown. I speaky English? Heck, I majored in English, morons! LOL.

I think that the fact we have people inspired and suddenly wanting to get involved, regardless of party or cause, really says something. If the momentum of public involvement in political accountability can be sustained all year, that'll really be something.

It's an amazing time. Regardless of who you wanted in the White House, you all acted, inspired others to act and showed the rest of world that the term "for the people, by the people" are not just words.

Give yourselves a hand of applause. That is the biggest victory of all. Bravo.

Comments

[cleothemuse.livejournal.com]

Hear, hear! Voter apathy has been a plague upon American civil responsibility, but record turnouts--in some places, 70-75 percent of the registered voters--mean that people took this election seriously. Minorities and people in their 20s and younger, especially, have had this sense of "well, my vote won't really matter anyway..." Last night, they saw dedicated "red" states change colors--Montana, Colorado, Indiana, Virginia, and North Carolina!

I knew my vote wouldn't "count" in Kentucky--and in fact the state was called for McCain only minutes after the official close of the polls--but I voted anyway!

[mrwubbles.livejournal.com]

but I voted anyway!

Good for you! And your vote does count. Showing up shows those around you one more person gives a damn and that gets the mental ball rolling!

[(Anonymous)]

That is probably the best thing about this election I've heard. :)

I always try to vote--even in non-presidential years. I'm not happy with the parties and the party situation (basically tearing apart the country by being one or the other), but it's better than there being only one party (like in other countries I won't name here).

In the days after I've been hearing so much on "the ramifications" of this election, turnout, voter tendencies, 'racial' implications, political leanings, et cetera that I've missed the first and foremost best thing about this election. People are voting--even if they don't think their votes matter. They do matter, no matter what the outcome and what you wanted. Maybe more people will be motivated to enter politics too? Here's hoping.

-AKung
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PS: NYC does offer voters information in Chinese (I've gotten one before even though I wasn't in a heavily Chinese area and I can't read Chinese--I only speak some Catonese).