It is easy to say your passionate about an issue and even claim to be active in pursuing it, but then you get so busy with other things in life that you fall victim to a life of convenience. I avoided my own hypocracy and sent off for my absentee ballot today because being in DC I will miss the primaries. Looking at the voter turnout rates that hover around 50% on presidential election years I assume there are some other people just like me tempted to let one phone call to the local registration office keep them from voting. My excuse would be legitimate that I ran out of time to mail in for an absentee ballot, but my conscious was haunting by the thought of being in DC where the license plates say “taxation without representation.” We have to remember what a privilege it is to vote and remember what a responsibility it is to vote smartly. In South Carolina we still have a few more days until January 19th to get smart and get to the polls.
Semester on the Hill 