"Politics is a Good Thing"

Or so says the stickers that Larry Sabato gives me everytime I run into him with my dad. While killing time in between set-ups, I decided I really ought to investigate the political races in my area, since that time is coming up soon. The results are fairly dismal.

For US Senate, I think I may end up voting for my roommate's puppy. Not even including all the controversy around George Allen, I'm definitely not in favor of staying in Iraq, which pretty much puts out most Republicans for me in general. But for Jim Webb, I don't see much difference. His website is a really good example of "sound and fury, signifying nothing" - it's very long to read, but nothing is really actually said. His views on such topics as health care and education don't seem to be any different than Allen's, and he's also in no way clear about his views on Iraq, leaving the subject very open ended. Finally, there's an independent candidate, Gail Parker, who has absolutely no information on her (very ugly) website about any of the major issues, but instead has seemed to have built her platform soley around getting a high speed train into our area. What?

As far as the House race goes, there is in fact a Libertarian candidate (yay!) for our district - Bill Wood. He seems to be on par with Libertarian philosophy, so I'll be happy to vote for him. Unfortunately, I've seen no press on him at all, so it doesn't look like there will be much hope...

So that's my two cents on the upcoming elections. And no matter who you vote for...just make sure you vote.

(For music related news, I got some VERY good info this morning. I will be an extremely happy girl if everything I heard gets confirmed.)