"While I won’t run to the ballot box to vote on Election Day, I will walk there purposefully."

[Robb]

Well done piece from, of all people, http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/11/take-a-stroll-with-rob-delaney-a-voters-guide/">comedian Rob Delaney (no relation :D ):

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If you’re not upset that I voted for Edwards in the primary, you must’ve changed your opinion of me based on one or more of the other people I’ve voted for over the years. Republican, Green, Democrat, and Independent? Who do I think I am, Ohio? I told you who I’ve voted for over the years because I wanted to lay bare my thought process and show some things that I would change if I had a time machine. I wanted to show evidence of a person who believed one thing, gathered evidence, and then changed his mind. I wanted to do something that most politicians refuse to do, i.e. show some humility/teachability. Also, as a comedian and writer who frequently makes political jokes, people often ask me what I personally believe. And I thought it might be valuable to look into one concerned citizen’s open and evolving mind, not because my beliefs are more valid than anyone else’s, but because if this country is to survive, which history suggests it will, a more nuanced approach to our problems will be required.

Also, people on the Internet tell me every day to “stick to the jokes, pal” and I wanted to outline why I will do no such thing, and why you shouldn’t either. If in fact I should “stick to the jokes” since I’m a comedian, that would suggest that politics should be left to politicians. And we know that many politicians (like large numbers of those who make up the United States Congress, for example) are very, very bad at politics. They quite literally NEED my help. And your help. And since we live in a Democratic republic, I will continue to share my opinion whenever I feel like it. And please feel free to disagree with me. Jesus, I hope you do, because there are many things I don’t know and many things I’m surely wrong about. I am a comedian. But a comedian’s opinion matters in the United States of America, as does a pipefitter’s, a truck driver’s, and a heart surgeon’s. So if you ask me to keep my opinion to myself, I will find you, and I will fart on you, aggressively.

At the end of 2012, barring seismic changes to the political landscape, I will vote for Barack Obama. As I stated above, I didn’t vote for Obama in the 2008 election. There’s a cult of personality around him that is silly and distracting; he’s a politician through and through. But while I won’t run to the ballot box to vote on Election Day, I will walk there purposefully. I will do this for two reasons: 1. I believe Obama would nominate better Supreme Court justices than any of the prospective Republican presidential candidates, and 2. I want the Affordable Care Act guarded and seen through to completion by the guy responsible for it, because there is no more fundamental building block to our nation’s future than the health of its citizens. It’s not perfect, but it is vastly superior to what we had, which was insurance companies denying coverage to your 32-year-old sister because she had a cyst on an ovary when she was 21.

I am as passionate about these two issues as Marcus Bachmann is about curing homosexuality, and for the following reasons:

Read More: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2011/08/11/take-a-stroll-with-rob-delaney-a-voters-guide/

...I dug into his stuff after a friend retweeted this gem:

[pnorman]

1. Suit yourself but there's a "force multiplier effect" for enthusiam

(ie: ""running to the ballot", that will also affect his coat-tails. If we don't get it right next year, it may take a very loooong time to get back on track----if ever!