Now, if you own a cell phone, access social media whatsoever in your lifetime, or watch tv, you’re likely aware that some fairly significant elections are coming up. As is always the case with American elections in the twenty-first century, the pundits would have you think that the fate of the world is in danger, and getting out and voting for the person wearing the color tie you most closely identify with would be the only way to rescue us.
Otherwise, those dastardly snowflakes/Nazis/Antifa/alt-righters/SJWs/(insert your preferred political enemy ) are going to require more power for themselves and everything you hold dear will be destroyed.
I am sorry if I look ridiculously cynical. Nonetheless, you have to understand I am a registered Independent in Nevada, a swing/battleground state. You can’t fathom the volume of text messages, phone calls, and even visits to my door I’m getting on a daily basis. At a certain point, it is difficult not to despise each one of those candidates vying for your vote.
Regardless, it will end. On Tuesday, November 6th, the rest of the public that didn’t currently participate in early voting will probably head to the polls and decide the fate of hundreds of politicians, filling 435 seats in the House and the other 33 in the Senate.
After a humiliating 2016, the Democratic party is desperate to steal back enough seats to give them power over Congress. Counting on an intense backlash to the Trump Presidency, Dems hope to inspire left-leaning and undecided voters to flood the ballot boxes and claw back some electricity in the right in what they are optimistically calling the“blue wave.“
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