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This will be the first elec­tion, and pos­si­bly the only pres­i­den­tial elec­tion in which Kim and I, along with our par­ents, could prospec­tively sit down at the same table and say that we’d be vot­ing for the same per­son.. and not even because we felt we were vot­ing for the lesser of two evils.

His­tory may indeed be made today, but in a lot of house­holds it already has been made. That is some­thing to admire and con­sider. Regard­less of what you may think of the polit­i­cal sys­tem in this coun­try and regard­less of who wins this elec­tion, the fact that so many Amer­i­cans are turn­ing out to the polls is a sign that we still have that spark of com­raderie and indig­na­tion that, as often as it can divide us, binds us together as Americans.

For the moment at least, the cyn­i­cism and com­pla­cency is put aside and the demo­c­ra­tic process is some­thing we are putting our faith in to deter­mine the direc­tion of our coun­try. There are many, many things that I don’t like about our coun­try, but one of the things I do like is that I can say so, and I can par­tic­i­pate in the way my gov­ern­ment works. It may not always work for my inter­ests. It may sel­dom work for my inter­ests, but I don’t remem­ber a time when I was more proud to be an American.