At this point, if you have a mobile phone, access social media whatsoever on your life, or watch television, you’re likely aware that some pretty important elections are coming up. As is always the case with American elections in the twenty-first century, the pundits would have you believe that the fate of the planet is in peril, and getting out and voting for the individual wearing the color tie you most closely identify with would be your only means to save us.
Otherwise, these dastardly snowflakes/Nazis/Antifa/alt-righters/SJWs/(insert your favorite political enemy here) are going to require more power for themselves and whatever you hold dear will be ruined.
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 quantity of text messages, telephone calls, and even visits to my door I am getting on a daily basis. At a certain stage, it’s difficult not to hate every single one of the candidates vying for your vote.
It all will end soon enough. On Tuesday, November 6th, the remaining public that didn’t already take part in early voting will probably head to the polls and choose the fate of countless politicians, filling 435 seats in the House and the other 33 in the Senate.
Following a humiliating 2016, the Democratic party is desperate to sneak back enough chairs 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 flooding the ballot boxes and claw back some electricity in the right at what they are optimistically calling the“blue wave.“
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