Voting

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I, a life long White Sox fan did not vote for Jermaine Dye (who at this moment has just hit a triple against the Texas Rangers - W.'s, see below, Texas Rangers) to get into the 2008 All-Star game to be played at Yankee Stadium. It's not that I voted for someone else, either. See, after going through my adolescent years clogging the All-Star ballot boxes at County Stadium - the former home of the Milwaukee (the city in which I spent my favorite baseball loving years) Brewers - I've grown out of it.

Too often the fans don't pay enough attention to the current baseball season to vote for the proper players, all too frequently voting for players who should've either been their last year or not at all. Every All-Star team is filled with great names of great players who've put up not-so-great half seasons.

Well, that can be said for the Presidential election, too. However, I'll be voting in that one. But, many citizens choose to treat the presidential election like the All-Star vote. Voting for the guy who shouldn't be there. I'm not going to point any fingers to any particular elections of late, but for some reason 2000 and 2004 seem to jump out at me like an Olympic pole-vaulter.

Then there are the ones who decide that they're not going to vote at all. "My vote doesn't count," "It's just one vote," "The president doesn't care about me," all seem to be valid arguments (and they're all pretty right on) that people use when avoiding the polls on that wonderful November day.

Well, you've also got to remember who you're voting for. There's the future leader of one of the greatest nations in the world (sorry, America is no longer #1 - how can you be with a struggling economy and a very unpopular war and surging prices on a product that a nation relies so heavily on), but you're also voting for Senators, Mayors, County Commissioners, your neighbors, the people that live in the same town that you live in.

They're the same people that've got the same economic concerns and problems you've got. They're paying bills just like you. They're bringing their kids to soccer practice, baseball practice, softball practice, footb.....well, you get the idea. THEY ARE YOU! They're the ones that care, the ones that'll make a direct impact to your life.