I heard that over and over this morning as I voted in Somerville. It took 50 minutes from waiting in line, to voting, to sticking the ballot in the machine. For the last 20 minutes of it I had to hear a woman with a shrill voice say repeatedly (to anybody who would listen) that they were having problems with the ballots “because of the cut. The papah is too thick.”<\/p>\n
Over and over.<\/p>\n
The pitch of her voice was bad enough, the boston accent on the “paper” was worse.<\/p>\n
Alas, I did manage to vote…and took TWO “I voted” stickers; one for today, the second one to wear to the election party I’m going to tonight.<\/p>\n
This will definitely be an interesting election. I was emailing with a close friend from high school (one of my oldest friends…in terms of friendship duration, not age) and I found it fascinating how different our perceptions of the election were. Here we were…both from the same town, same race, same junior high and high school, same lower-middle class (ish) background…yet we have completely opposing views of the election. In her eyes, there is only one issue in this campaign: national security.<\/p>\n
I, on the other hand, barely had that issue in my top 5 (economy, national defecit, supreme court nominations were the top four…not necessarily in that order). National security isn’t something I really worry about since neither candidate wants to decrease airport security or loosen immigration laws. And I’ve always felt safe flying or visiting other countries. Meanwhile, I feel that the four issues I have are the ones that will affect me and my loved ones the most over the next 4 years…or 4 decades (when you take into consideration the impact of new supreme court justice appointees).<\/p>\n
Still,\u00a0my friend and I are both reasonably\u00a0intelligent, open-minded people. I just love how we can have such vastly different perspective on the election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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