From blogging, when I had to make an emergency trip to Phoenix to see if I could help take care of my mother.
She has a chronic illness and was in a bad way. I'm not sure I helped, but she certainly stabilized and was able to spend some quality time with her doctors while I was there.
Anyway, today's election day and I spent a few hours this morning in 22 F degree weather holding up signs in favor of Colorado's Amendment 37 which mandates at least 10% of CO's energy from renewable resources by 2015. Doesn't sound like you'd get much of a fight, but power companies don't like change.
I'll be doing last-minute canvassing this afternoon from about 2-7pm.
Not only does volunteering feel good, you get to talk with other active folks, get new opinions, and realize there's a lot of people out there who also want change.
I have to admit, I'm less frightened by the possibility of Bush remaining in office now. My experiences that past few months show me that even as he works to divide the nation, there's a lot of people like me coming together who want to work for positive changes in our nation.
So, that's good news.
Here's hoping for more, and predicting a Kerry landslide if enough voters actually get out there! The fewer the voters (i.e. less than 110,000,000) could very well give Bush the the Electoral vote win.... speaking of which Electoral Vote.com is a fantastic little site to understand the Electoral College more and how that's working.
Posted by BilFish at November 2, 2004 03:02 PM