Reply #5: Hmm - civic duty. [View All]

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I don't live in a rural area, I don't need to be called 16 times (Hillary) - 14 times (Obama) - or even 2 times (Edwards) in ONE WEEK. NO ONE DOES. Find me someone who is "grateful" to be called that often. Please.

If you want to have more people participate in the "process" and do their civic duty then you need to educate people all the time; not just during an election cycle. Work on that. I do it - I teach history. If people understand WHY it matters to vote - not just why it matters today, but why it MATTERS, period, they are more likely to be involved.

That's my pixie dust, champ. I sprinkle it liberally every semester, every year - not just during an election cycle.

I do understand what you're saying, but guess what. I just got home from my caucus.

My candidate didn't make the first cut, so my "vote" didn't count - I'm informed by another DUer that isn't true; the fact that I could stand with my little group meant I did get to vote . . . somehow it doesn't feel that way, because my vote didn't even get counted. If I had been standing in a different precinct, would my vote have counted? Who knows? I never will. But that thought will linger - and it tells me that I was disenfranchised today.

And all those bloody phone calls didn't make a damn difference.