Tomorrow is the big day.

Many people are finding ways to vote early this year, but for most of us the polls open for the big day, Election Day, in just under 17 hours. I’ve never been into politics to the degree that I am this year and although I try to keep my public display of political opinions at a minimum I’ve found myself mentioning it enough to warrant its own category here on my website.

Tomorrow will only be my 2nd time voting in a general election, 3rd if you include the democratic caucus earlier this year. I’m proud to announce who I’m voting for and I’m more than happy to sit down and talk to people about why I’m choosing Barack Obama over John McCain, why I’m a democrat rather than a republican, and why I’m liberal instead of conservative.

To be honest, I think that the bottom line is when it comes to politics the word ‘conservative’ is arbitrary, I think Barack Obama has more conservative values then John McCain will ever have. It’s obvious that we need change in our government, we need to invest into our own infrastructure to rebuild our health care system, our schools and education, our bridges and roads, our housing and credit markets - we need to strengthen our own economy, our own country, rather then pour money into a war of ulterior motives on the other side of the planet that has gone nowhere in 4 years. So how is pulling our country out of a bottomless hole constitute as a liberal thing to do? How is Barack Obama so far “left” when everything he wants to do is right?

I just don’t understand why we can’t try to move in another direction when we all know that what’s going on right now is not working, and it will continue to not work because it never was in our best interests in the first place. I believe that it’s unfair to tell someone to vote for a particular candidate, I think people should evaluate what’s important to them and vote accordingly. But if you’re going in tomorrow to vote “conservative” just because “it’s the American way”, or if you believe the childish stabs about the democratic nominee just because he has an unconventional name or his skin isn’t quite red-neck white, rather than all of that maybe you could focus on the real issues at hand and what the candidates have to say because believe it or not, “The American Way” or the classic “American Dream” as we know it or as we would like it to be, is at stake with this election.