Politics and Personal Choice

I cast my vote early after all, succumbing to convenience rather than extensive research. I missed the one debate I wanted to see, anyway. Oh well. I found myself voting for many underdogs in the more attention-grabbing races and for incumbents in the less-noticed races. The incumbents ended up winning in most cases, and the frontrunners in the attention-grabbing races won, too. Very few people voted. Most people in Las Vegas seem to think their lives will go on just fine without paying attention to who's running their particular part of the country. I guess that's their choice. I wonder if some kind of mandatory voting coupled with making it a paid national holiday would work. We could work out the technicalities, I'm sure. I'm just not sure about the mandatory part. How would it be enforced? Revoke drivers' licenses? The media paid most attention to the horse-race aspect of the campaigns -- who's ahead, mostly, according to polls and cash raised. That hardly tells half the story of what these people we're electing actually do to get elected. I wish they would cover more community events, and there would be more community events to cover. I'm still a Democrat, but I voted for the more pro-life Democrat in the race. He lost.