Election Day is Here Again
Bill Maher said it best when he pointed out that the Democratic Party has moved more to the right and the Republican Party has moved to the nut house. This is evident in this off year election.
There are three races around the nation that people are looking at today. The first is the New Jersey Governor race. In this race, we have the unpopular incumbent Democratic governor being challenged by a right wing Republican. But New Jersey isn’t a right wing kind of state, so a moderate Republican is running as a third party and has been polling at about 12%. This race is currently in a statistical dead heat. The right wing candidate might just take the liberal state of New Jersey.
In neighboring New York, the 23 congressional district has been Republican for over a hundred years. The Republican candidate was seen as too liberal by Sarah Palin (who lives as far away from NY as one could possibly live while still being in America). So she endorsed the crazy right wing third party candidate and pretty much started a bandwagon of Republican support. As a result, the Republican candidate dropped out and endorsed the Democrat because even she knows that the third party candidate will move the Republicans Party nationwide much further into the nut house.
In the state of Maine, gay marriage faces the California scenario. If Proposition 1 is successful, then the Religious Right will have a huge victory. On the other hand, if the “No on 1” campaign wins and Proposition 1 is defeated, Maine will keep gay marriage and the Religious Right will be out of options.
Elsewhere around the nation are smaller battles. School Boards, Judges, town councils, and county offices are all fighting it out. These smaller fights are important fights. These people are the next generation of national politicians and in their smaller offices they have a surprisingly large impact on everyday Americans.
Most Americans don’t vote on these off year elections. But these are important elections. So please vote.
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