Voting One's Conscience

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78. In the year 2000

Gore won Iowa by only 4,144 votes.

Bush almost won Iowa.

I am proud to say that I did everything in my power to keep that dire happening from happening. I did not just vote, I also wrote a letter to the editor in the Mason City Globe Gazette, encouraging my fellow River Citiziens to also vote for Gore and do their part to keep Bush out of the White House. The Globe Gazette is the major paper for Northern Iowa. Check out this map of Iowa and look at the counties that Gore took in the north.

http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.html

The victory margins in Cerro Gordo, Floyd, Mitchell, and Hancock counties was 4,155 votes.

It is possible that I, myself, won Iowa for Gore. If there had been a person like me in New Hampshire, then our country and our world might have avoided 8 years of excrement.

Of course, it is unlikely that I really made that difference. Cerro Gordo and Floyd almost always go D. But at the end of the day, I tried. I did my best, and the thing I was trying for - it came to pass. It has been said that one person can make a difference, and every person should try.