Feeling Disenfranchised?

This may be my shortest post ever. You are free to send it to anyone you know who you think may be feeling a bit disenfranchised lately.

I’ve always been against “strategic voting”. However, I believe everyone should vote – even if the establishment and the media tell us it’s all over. That’s why I’m deciding this year to take someone else’s advice: I got an email from another blogger today that cynically said, “since McCain has it all locked up, I guess I can go ahead and vote for Mike Huckabee as a protest vote.” Not a bad idea.

Here’s the message you’re free to send along to those Democrats whose delegates won’t be seated or to those Republicans who were told it was a “two man race” when there were still four active candidates (one of those two men recently dropped out and endorsed the other): Give your vote to Huckabee or Ron Paul on the GOP side and to Kucinich or Gravel on the Democrat side. Since it’s all over, you can send a message to your party that politicians who have ears for the media and talk radio need to start tuning in their constituents.