I think it is that people are just fed up with the whole political system...I know I am and for just about the exact reason zero stated. All the hopes, dreams, and aspirations we are force fed for 6 months out of an election year go unheeded...year after year, and election after election. The Republicans point at and make fun of the Democrats. The Democrats return the favor. In the end, we are always left with a bunch of border line criminals. Of course with this election there is a buzz because the Republicans have reclaimed themselves as king of the mountain...and it instills a sense of hope that things will be done differntly, and for the better. But we all know come around February all that will be worn off and the partisan methodology that is destroying this country will be back in full force. Nothing cringes me more than to watch our political officials sway their votes for the mere "good of the party". A house divided is no house at all.

I don't vote not because I am lazy, or that I just don't care, I don't vote out of spite. All you are voting for these days are what you consider to be the lesser of two evils. And some people are so gung-ho about their favored party, they will vote for whatever piece of meat they throw on the pedastal. People call me unpatriotic for not doing my duty as a citizen (God I am so sick of hearing that argument...I have a right to bear arms too but I have never owned a gun...does that make me unpatriotic too??). They say that if I don't like how things are run, that I MUST vote in order to change it. Yeah, and where has that gotten us? If you really want change...then let's really change the system!!! We have as much a constitutional right to coup against our government as we do to vote for it, and since I am no way prepared to do that on my own, I fight my battle by not participating in it. If everyone else were to do the same, we could really start to see things change. And who knows...maybe it wouldn't work that well...but I am at the point where I am willing to take my chances.