Can this election be over soon, please?

[mamadeb]

(Please note - I don't want a political argument here. I'm presenting what the election is doing to my marriage.)

I'm tired of arguing with my husband. We pretty much agree on everything politically, but he supports Obama and I am, apparently, the only person on my friendslist who supports Hilary Clinton. (I really do think she'd make a better president, although I wish she had Obama's skill with words.) And this has nothing to do with past or present connections - I made this decision before the New York primary.

Please don't try to convince me to change my views. I'm not exactly going to be holding my nose when I vote for Obama come November, and seriously, the two candidates are NOT so far apart in their views, with Clinton a tad more moderate (like me, as it happens.) However, I'm actually finding some Obama supporters' vehemence off-putting. That might well be the contrary part of my personality, though.

But, oh, my goodness, it's lonely here.

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[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

We're perfectly happy with the choices - either would do the job, we think. We just disagree about who would do it better.

And I haven't sat out a presidential election since I was eligible to vote. Even if I knew my candidate would lose.

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

The problem is that I don't think I can vote for any of them. None.

I've never felt this disenfranchised, although I walked out of the voting booth in tears in 2004.

I turned 18 a month after the 1992 elections and I was SO mad that I'd missed voting by 30 lousy days, but now? Now I'm mad that everyone expects me to vote because I'm in uniform, pretty much.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

That has to be very hard. I'm sorry to hear that.

(I turned 18 two days after election day in 1981, so I missed voting for governor in my state. It was immensely frustrating.)

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

It *is* hard. Thank you. Few people seem to understand that being stuck in this position is danged near untenable and it's frustrating to worry that you'd rather not vote at all than vote for the folx who are presented.

Can it just be over now, please? I'll still have a job, thank God, when this is all over as will my husband, but oh, I'm so tired of it.

[mamadeb.livejournal.com]

It just has to be impossible.

HUGS