Kerry takes the lead in Kanagawa
I got my absentee ballot today. Quick, somebody do an exit poll!
The presidential race was an easy choice, as was the vote for my representative in the House—I’ll take the Democrat in both of those races, thanks. In the end, though, I picked George Voinovich over Eric Fingerhut for the Senate race. All things considered, my political views are pretty close to Eric Meyer’s: I would probably be a Republican if the GOP actually stood for what it says it stands for. But it doesn’t, so I can’t.
I have a soft spot for Voinovich, however, because he actually stands up for his principles—even if that means saying no to a popular war-time president. I have a lot of respect for Republicans who can distance themselves from Bush. I’ve spoken highly of Voinovich before, so it should come as no surprise that I support him now.
It’s hard to say what will happen in Ohio this year, though. It’s looking like the GOP may sweep the state at the federal level. It’s pretty close, though, with Kerry only about 3 percent behind Bush in the polls—polls which, I should mention, never take into consideration the Kanagawa vote (or the vote of Ohioans abroad elsewhere in the world, for that matter). That segment of the vote was lost to Bush a long time ago. Is it more than 3 percent? I doubt it, but Ohio seems to have had a rather large increase in Democratic voter registrations this year, so we’ll see what happens.
