{"id":5256,"date":"2008-10-31T03:09:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-31T10:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2008-10-31T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T20:04:49","slug":"im-voting-for-senator-ocain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5256\/im-voting-for-senator-ocain\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Voting for Senator O’Cain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Greetings from the battleground state of Virginia.  I was 4 years old the last time Virginia was up for grabs.  Back then you could only vote once and you had to use your real name.  My how things have changed.  <\/p>\n

I have lived in Virginia my whole life and grew up in a very conservative\/Republican area that considered Ronald Reagan a liberal.  For the past 10 years I have lived in the very liberal\/Democratic town of Charlottesville. I guess you could say I’ve seen both sides of aisle.  Amazingly, neither of these distorted perspectives (or perhaps both) have rubbed off on me.  <\/p>\n

I’ve always said that no matter what, 30% of the people will vote Republican, 30% will vote Democratic, and the reaming 40% will generally vote for the lesser of the two evils.  I generally agree with Sean’s recent post<\/a> about voters often voting against a candidate or a party, but I see something different in this election.  Perhaps it is just the battleground state status that has brought energy to the local campaigns, but I sense something else – a genuine excitement about the candidates.<\/p>\n

Locally, all the excitement has been about Senator Obama, but that is to be expected.  Around the state, according to my family and friends, there is just as much excitement for Senator McCain and especially Governor Palin.  Sorry, Joe the Politician, but no one seems to care much about Senator Biden.<\/p>\n

Until this year, I’ve always fallen into the 40% that votes for the lessor of evils.  This year, I have things I like about both candidates that outweigh the things I dislike about both candidates.  In fact, if I had a magic wand that could combine the two, I’d have my guy.  He’d be an articulate speaker, a war hero, and have a long history of bucking both his party and Washington politics.  He’d be the guy with great international experience and fresh ideas that gives this nation hope once again.  He’d be capable of rallying the youth of America and of leading our troops to victory.<\/p>\n

If he existed, I’d Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greetings from the battleground state of Virginia.  I was 4 years old the last time Virginia was up for grabs.  Back then you could only vote once and you had to use your real name.  My how things have changed.  I have lived in Virginia my whole life and grew up in a very conservative\/Republican […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[251,13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-casual-friday","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5203,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/5203\/a-disturbing-new-dynamic\/","url_meta":{"origin":5256,"position":0},"title":"A Disturbing New Dynamic","author":"Sean Purcell","date":"October 26, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Although this post discusses the election in general, it is not meant to instigate a general discussion of the election.\u00a0 It is... a non-political post on politics. 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