I guess many of us felt that this night would never come. Indeed, after a campaign season that has pervaded and intruded on our very lives for the past twenty-two months, after a primary season that feels like it began practically a whole year ago, it is just mind-boggling to think that at long last, it is now the evening of November 3, 2008, and that we are now preparing to make the decision of how we can take our country back and make it ours again.

This election is without a doubt the most important election since 1932. It doesn’t take a partisan person to recognize that in these past years, our country has slid into the crapper–the vast majority of our country agrees. This is the most critical time for us to come together and decide which bridge we are going to cross, because if we don’t start seeing some real change in Washington, we might not make it to the next election in 2012.

I wish I could vote in this election, unfortunately, I don’t turn 18 for another eleven months. However, for all of you who are 18 and who have registered to vote, please don’t neglect to take some time tomorrow to cast your vote. It doesn’t matter whether or not you’re Democratic, Republican, or Independent, everyone has the responsibility to get out and have a say in the future of our country–that’s what a democracy is about. Many people, from soldiers to average everyday ordinary heroes, have given their lives to ensure that everyone, regardless of race, sex, creed, origin, color, or religion, has an equal right to vote for the leaders that represent them. We owe it to them to exercise the right that they gave to us.

I began my first blog four years ago prior to the election of 2004. My blog wouldn’t evolve into Webmacster87.info for a few months yet, but I opened my blog with a message about the importance of exercising the right to vote, and imploring the likely-nonexistent readers that I had to vote in the election. Now, four years later, the candidates are stronger, the lines will be longer, and the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Please take the time to go vote and encourage everyone you know to do so. Yes, the lines may be long or the machines may be quirky, but please make the commitment to exercise your democratic rights tomorrow. The future of our country depends on it. If you don’t vote, you don’t count.

I’m working at the polls again tomorrow, and I’ll be back on here on Wednesday with my responses to the election results. Hopefully we will have more solid results on Wednesday than we had in 2000 (knock on wood).

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