I hate this freaking election

Hello, everyone.
This is Isaac: twelve years old and feeling fine!

Dad says I should post my views about the election here, even though he already sort of did.

Well, I think it can be best summed up in what I voted for in that poll Dad put up in the upper left hand corner of the site. I chose the last choice, specifically:

I hate this freaking election.

We did a paper in our Social Studies class that was supposed to help us choose a candidate. We wrote down our views on six topics: Education, War in Iraq, Health Care, National Security and Terrorism, the Environment, and Jobs and the Economy. Then, she told us the candidate's views, we wrote them down, and circled who we agreed with for each view. Me? I agreed on three of the issues with Obama, and on three of the issues with McCain!

This, obviously, did not help me decide who I was going to vote for.

Nor, by the way, did the girl in my grade who, on Halloween, dressed up as Palin and tried to get me to vote for her.

But I'm getting off track.

I talked to Dad, and he told me that when you're torn on the views, you look at other things. Things like:

1. Integrity (That would be neither candidate)
2. How well they ran their campaign (Obama)
3. Experience (McCain)

Great Googaly Moogaly: I still don't know who to vote for.

As Dad said, the kids in my class were getting angry that I wasn't taking sides.

The conversations went like this:

My Republican friends: So, who are you voting for?
Me: I don't know.
Aforementioned Republican friends: Ha ha ha. Seriously, Isaac. You're voting for McCain, right? I mean, who would vote for Obama?

(or:)

My Democrat friends: So, who are you voting for?
Me: I don't know.
Aforementioned Democrat friends: Ha ha ha. Seriously, Isaac. You're voting for Obama, right? I mean, who would vote for McCain?

The number one argument for Obama was "Obama is your mama!" This will tell you the sort of people in my class who tend to be Democrats.

The number one argument for McCain was "Come on. Who would seriously vote for Obama?" when I asked them why they said this, they would stutter out, "um,er,ah,well, seriously? Are you going to vote for Obama?" When I asked them to tell me what was so bad about Obama, 90% of them suddenly had pressing engagements elsewhere.

So my classmates where unhelpful. Pretty soon, all my Republican friends were convinced I was for Obama because I didn't unquestionably accept their views, and all my Democrat friends thought I was voting for McCain for the same reason.

For a short time, I thought about forgetting both candidates and voting for Ralph Nader, but Dad said he would disown me if I did, so I decided not to.

At last, Election Day. Our school actually got to "vote" on November 3rd, but of course it didn't count for anything. So you guys got an extra day to think over your choices.

Lucky ducks.

Anyway, so: the voting "booth": a laptop on a desk in the lobby. I had an important class I had to go to in 5 minutes, but I still couldn't quite make up my mind.
At last, I decided.

I'm not going to tell you who I ended up voting for. Except that it wasn't Ralph Nader.

I eventually decided because the candidate I voted for, while I only agreed with him on half of the views, this half was, in my opinion, the most important half.

Well, Obama's president and I'm just glad the election's over. I think in 2012, I'm going to crawl into a dark hole for the year.

And that's my views on the election.