This year was my first chance to vote. I felt a little distant from the whole process in part due to numerous factors. I voted by absentee ballot so I didn’t go to the polls and for me it was a little anticlimactic. I almost was unable to vote because my absentee ballot came so late. Luckily I got it just in time. I feel that politics today is just about putting the other person down, digging up any dirt in their past and flaunting it to the public in a self righteous way. I don’t want to say that I vote purely on part lines, but it is hard to contradict that statement when both sides are so polarized and I might have selective hearing, but 95% of the time, when I hear a negative add towards a candidate, it is supported by the Republican national committee.
In my placement at West Goshen I was able to see the kids vote. It was really interesting seeing how excited or unexcited they were. They definitely emulated their parents. I think all of the children were pretty gung ho for Barack and one child that was ecstatic for McCain. For
some, the process was really confusing. I still remember voting for Clinton in a mock election at Hesston Elementary in Hesston, Kansas. Being apart of that simple mock election, way back in elementary school made a memorable impact on my life. Often as a kid you are left out of things and the mock election introduced me to the voting process and tickled my taste buds for the political process.
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