California Conservative

Yes, that’s my advice to this blog’s readers, but it’s also the title of Salena Zito’s latest column. Salena points out some important things that we take for granted:

It is annoying, aggravating, intrusive. You cannot turn on a radio, television or computer or pick up your home phone without being informed that you have choices to make on Election Day.
Well, know what? You are lucky. Darned lucky.
And here’s why: No matter how you feel about the war in Iraq, the people of Iraq should inspire you.
While more than 70 percent of Iraqis last year showed up at voting booths despite the risks of suicide bombings, mortar attacks, snipers and other sectarian violence, we shrug off voting if the weather is bad.

Are my fellow conservatives going to pout and stay home because they didn’t get what they want? I doubt that that’ll happen as often as is being reported but it’ll happen too often nonetheless. The ‘Message-Sending’ section of the conservative movement would do well to think of what the Iraqi patriots went through before sending the wrong ‘message’.

We give way too much attention to the absurd and we have only ourselves to blame. Instead of being enthralled by Howard Dean’s next caustic anecdote or a rubber stamp with George Bush’s image on it, we should consume this historic process and vote.

Let me add this to Salena’s message: We shouldn’t pay attention to exit polling or to the pundits. Exit polling has historically shown a bias towards Democrats. It’ll be even worse this year because conservatives are voting early like never before. The result is that these early voters won’t be available for exit polling. The word thus far is that early voting heavily favors Republican candidates. Take a significant chunk of GOP voters out of the exit polling mix and it’s pretty obvious that they aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.

Technorati Tags: Election 2006, Exit Polling

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

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