Endorsement

We're almost done with this election season, and in a lot of ways, we're all grateful.  It's been ongoing, and stressful, and divisive, and pretty much a daily reminder of all the things we don't like going on in this country.  Half the nation is thinking one guy is better, and the other half thinks the current guy is better.  It's one of those topics you don't really bring up, because people are so impassioned and divided.  We ourselves pretty much fall into that category as well.

Today, Madison was sitting in front of a computer with the two candidates on the screen in front of her.  Daddy told her a bit about the election, but not anything about what the two candidates stood for.  I asked her which one to vote for and she chose the challenger, Mitt Romney.  Why?  The answer is simple:  he was surrounded with a red color, whereas the President was surrounded with blue.  She liked one color over an other.

Many people will be voting Tuesday using a very similar logic.

I'm not entirely sure how each party got their respective colors.  Apparently, this is a recent thing based on our media's choices when presenting the story on election night.  Traditionally, it appears the colors should be the opposite - but somehow over the last decade, red stands for Republican and blue stands for Democrat.

So it doesn't necessarily mean anything at all.  Red, of course, is a more communist color, which makes it an ironic choice.  Perhaps there's the thinking in assigning the colors.  I don't know.

Anyway, Madison has made her choice - and so have we.  In a few days, we'll be done with it, and probably more divided than ever.