Voter Drive Pt 2

**Yes, I'm posting more than twice in a single year, but it is 2012, so just chalk it up as another sign of the pending apocalypse.**

Went to my voter registration shift today, and had a fair sampling of people coming up to me with Romney affirmations, but overall, a lot of thumbs ups and spontaneous thank yous for participating.  I was able to get 6 people to register in a three hour period.  I was very happy with the cumulative results of my efforts, but it may take a while for my feet to forgive me.

I struck up a conversation with one gentleman of the Romney persuasion.  I wasn't wearing any indicator of my party affiliation, or of which organization had provided the funding engine behind the clipboard I had been  given, but he seemed to pick up that I was a Democrat.  Trust me, I am very much aware of the premise that if everyone would vote, there would be a land slide behind the Democratic affiliation, resulting in the painful reality that no political polling is ever done of public opinion, but on samplings of statistically likely voters, and that voter registration is in all likely hood most probably a Democratic effort.   Sorry, that last sentence was a dangling run-off of something or another, but you get the idea.

As I was trying to say before I rudely derailed myself, we had a civil conversation about how much he liked Romney and how great Rush is.  I did tell him that I felt in the end, neither of the two of us would have our way of life significantly changed by the difference between a Romney election, or a continued Obama presidency.  In saying that, I meant that our respective tax rates probably wouldn't change by much between either administration, our kids would probably continue at their same schools, and general civil services would probably stay about the same.

What I didn't get a chance to continue on with in the conversation was what those differences might be.  For me those differences are about the future.  Moving past a complacency that a resource will be fine for another 40 years.  That educating all of our population is important.  And that nasty taxation issue.  I can't agree with ensuring that those that have it easy, should have it easier.  I can't agree that those with vast wealth, need to be able to pass the power of their accumulated power infinitely onto their offspring.  The game is stacked in favor of those born into wealth, we can't guarantee it to be permanently rigged as well.