How to Vote

I don’t have anything really insightful to say about this and I suppose I should be desensitized to it by now, but it still galls. Today’s an election day and we’re a polling site. I haven’t been back out to check on them, but this morning when I pulled into work there was a group stationed just beyond the allowable distance handing out guides for voting pro-life. It’s not that I’m anti-pro-life, it’s just their approach. I may not be the most educated voter ever, but I try to know a little something about the candidates and issues before I arrive at the polling site. And who I decide to vote for will be based on more than a single factor. If the only thing you know about your candidate is that he/she is against abortion, how can you trust the person to make informed decisions that represent your interests about anything else? Even if it is the issue you feel is more important than any other, you have to acknowledge there are other things to take into consideration, don’t you? Or is that how we’ve ended up with the current administration, which seems wholly incapable of administrating anything except an (failing) attempt to force its values on the world?