This morning, I headed out of a shop and said, “I’ve got to go vote now.” Before I reached the door, I was filled with elation. I turned back and said, “No, I GET to go vote now.”
On this Super Tuesday, for the first time in history, we have Hillary Clinton, a woman, Barack Obama, a Black American, John McCain, a former prisoner of war, and Mitt Romney, a Mormon. And they are all viable candidates. We, as Americans, get to choose among them, and others. It is an exciting day.
We must vote with our minds and hearts, sincerely choosing what we believe to be the highest and best for our country. We must not be affected by exit polls or any other ruses that might skew our decisions.
Back in 1948, Harry Truman spoke about polls: “These polls,” he said, “are like sleeping pills designed to lull the voters into sleeping on election day. You might call them ’sleeping polls.’” His opponent “keeps handing out these sleeping polls, and some people have been taking them. This doctor keeps telling the people, ‘Don’t worry, take a poll and go to sleep.’ But most of the people are not being fooled.”
I encourage all of us, as faithful Americans, not to go to sleep today. Today, WE get to choose.
