http://www.factcheck.org/askfactcheck/did_clinton_win_the_popular_vote.html

And remember, politicians’ voting records are public knowledge. See Project Vote Smart (http://www.votesmart.org)

I feel your pain though. In my 16 year of being voting age I’ve been registered as just about everything. R, D, I, NPA and back and forth again. Sometimes I think I’m a socialist, anarchist or communist. I almost fooled myself into believing I was a Libertarian.

I have some pretty conservative views on some things and exceedingly liberal views on other matters. I’m only registered as a Democrat right now so I could vote in the primaries, but I wouldn’t call myself a “Member of the Party.”

“I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.” –Thomas Jefferson

That being said, I’m a registered Libertarian, so I should want less government in my life, not more (typically a Republican trait). However, I want this country to be a tolerant, egalitarian example to all, led by a politically and spiritually progressive people. And I just don’t see that happening with McCain at the helm. Maybe it’s because he’s a POW. Maybe I fear that he’ll freak out one day and in a flashback and exact revenge on any person (our country) nearby. Or maybe it’s just because I’m so tired of old, white men running shit.

I’m also a 32-year old husband and father to a three-year old daughter, and currently cannot afford to provide health care for all of them. Child yes, family no. It’s simply cost-prohibitive. I’d like to give the Universal Health Care plan a try. Hopefully it would also cut down on the creation and classification of new “diseases” to bolster the sale of new medications.

Medicine, Fear and War are BIG BUSINESS right now. And the more digital screens we place around us, the more at risk we are of being exposed to “purchased” stimuli.

I disagree with Ben, I think watching Comedy Central is the worst thing you could do. I say retreat into a cave (or your bedroom), read a shit-ton of history and philosophy and decide what YOU believe in.

Then report back.