I for one did not vote this year, and for two reasons.
1) I didn't feel that either candidate was worth casting my vote for. In my opinion one is a complete liar and the other has proven ineffective at getting things done. This is the third presidential election in which I have been old enough to vote and I decided that I wasn't going to be reduced to picking the lesser of two "evils."
2) Kansas will always cast its electoral votes for a republican. If I lived in a state where it was going to be close I may have voted.
It used to be in the army that officers wouldn't vote because no matter who the president was we followed his orders, no questions asked, because we raised our right hands and swore to do just that. Being in Afghanistan I was sheltered from all of the political BS this time around and the election somewhat snuck up on me, however I still made the choice not to vote. That said, I absolutely will still hold whoever the winner is to their duty to do what is best for this nation and all of her citizens. If they drop the ball on something important then they need to own up and admit that they screwed up and then fix the problem, as it is what they expect us to do in the military. Something that I noticed this time around that wasn't as much of an issue last time given how much social networking has grown in the last 4 years is the use of FB to voice one's political opinions. I saw so much ignorant, racist and hateful crap that it nearly made me physically sick at times and it honestly caused me to change the opinions of many of the people that I am FB friends with.
I can not wait until tomorrow when all of this crap is over and done with.
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