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Nov. 7th, 2006 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chelidon[edit: looks like we swept Charlie Bass right out of the House... ::does the happy dance::]
[edit2: by the slimmest of margins, it looks now like NH knocked both incumbent House Republicans out -- change is in the wind...the last time New Hamshire sent two Democrats to Washington was 1912]
[edit3: and the State House and Senate both went from Republican-controlled to the Democrats as well. The House hasn't been Democratic since 1922, and the Senate has typically been Republican-led. With the Democratic governor re-elected by the largest margin in state history, New Hamsphire is now, aside from the two Senators (who won't be up for re-election until 2008) a completely blue state, an amazing turnaround]
The votes are cast, the phone calls made, the campaigns have run their course, and now, we wait. And know that while casting a vote for 15 minutes every 2 or 4 years is important, more important yet is what we choose to do with all the time between -- how we cast each dollar-vote, what we say, what we do, day in and day out. Each vote changes the world, a little, but we are so much more powerful than that one little vote we are privileged to cast. Don't give up your power, or your responsibility to use it, either today, or any other day. The world changes, each day, and all we need to do to make it change in the ways we choose is to choose to change it. Choose, then act. That's all there is to it.
[edit2: by the slimmest of margins, it looks now like NH knocked both incumbent House Republicans out -- change is in the wind...the last time New Hamshire sent two Democrats to Washington was 1912]
[edit3: and the State House and Senate both went from Republican-controlled to the Democrats as well. The House hasn't been Democratic since 1922, and the Senate has typically been Republican-led. With the Democratic governor re-elected by the largest margin in state history, New Hamsphire is now, aside from the two Senators (who won't be up for re-election until 2008) a completely blue state, an amazing turnaround]
The votes are cast, the phone calls made, the campaigns have run their course, and now, we wait. And know that while casting a vote for 15 minutes every 2 or 4 years is important, more important yet is what we choose to do with all the time between -- how we cast each dollar-vote, what we say, what we do, day in and day out. Each vote changes the world, a little, but we are so much more powerful than that one little vote we are privileged to cast. Don't give up your power, or your responsibility to use it, either today, or any other day. The world changes, each day, and all we need to do to make it change in the ways we choose is to choose to change it. Choose, then act. That's all there is to it.
