One more week

One more week and the election will be over (barring any Florida in 2000 type issues), and I'm so glad. I am so sick of reading about it on facebook and twitter and the news and watching the debates and having to defend my beliefs/choices/votes to people who don't even understand what their candidate stands for.

I could give you 101 reasons why I'm not voting for Barack Obama.
I could give you just as many reasons why I'm also not voting for Mitt Romney.

Instead I'll just encourage you to:
-  check out the candidate you're voting for, and make sure you know what they stand for. And be okay with it.
- don't vote for the "lesser of two evils"

- And because duh, this is my blog and I get to talk about things that matter to me, check out Gary Johnson.

If you're curious about what Gary Johnson is all about and have 45 minutes to spare, I highly recommend this video:

As for those who say it's a waste of my vote... As Gary Johnson said himself: 

“Wasting your vote is voting for somebody that you don’t believe in. 

That’s wasting your vote."

And a new party candidate has access to federal election funding if they receive five percent of the popular vote. Getting a third party candidate access to federal funds sure doesn't seem like a waste to me.