Why does voting matter?White male Americans have been voting since the early 1800s, but it wasn't until the early 1900s and 1960s were women and minorities given the opportunity to vote. This is a guide to show you how to take advantage of your voting rights and to get involved. Voice your opinion to try and make our government one "of the people, by the people, and for the people," as Lincoln has addressed.
Guide to Voting
Since the 2008 election, many changes have already occurred since President Obama’s takeover; some of which are: raising our fuel-efficiency standards, improving health care, and ending the war in Iraq. These transformations are what American citizens caused just by checking a ballot.
VOTE to trigger more improvements to America.
“There is no one in the White House, Congress or in state or local government that we, the voters, didn’t put there. If they are the wrong people, we made the mistake of voting them in. The solution is not to give up the vote but to vote more judiciously. We should encourage the dropouts and dimwits among us to vote intelligently. Voting is important. Not using it leads to losing it”
Callista Gingrich campaigns on behalf of her husband at Evergreen Christian School in Olympia, Washington. (Photo by Ted S. Miller/AP)
In the Arizona survey, ARG asked for voter preference by early vote. Among those surveyed, 48 percent had already voted, and among those early voters, Romney lead Santorum 50 to 29 percent. If that can be generalized statewide, then I think early voting may once again…
Occupy Londers were evicted from their encampment around St. Paul’s Cathedral overnight. Bailiffs and policeman worked to evict the protesters, who were not violent in their resistance. About 20 Occupiers were arrested and the police remove tents, threw them away and crushed them as protesters looked on.
Above: An Occupy London demonstrator holds a laptop with a sign on it: “They know not what they do.” Matthew Lloyd/Getty. Via.
If you were at Occupy London and took photographs, please send them my way so I can include them in my Occupy web documentary.
(Source: msnbc.com, via thepoliticalnotebook)
