I just waited in line for 2 hours to cast my ballot! Wow. This is my first time voting, so I don't know the elections for being anything else but this. What I gathered from all of the old people in their Sunday's best and the young Lawyers, impatient and late for work, was that this had not been the case 4 years ago. In the last election, there had not been this kind of excitement and participation in the election. It would take voters around 15 minutes to complete the voting process. It would seem that last election would have been much more hectic with the vivacious Obama support that was going on at that time. This election, he still has the same supporters here--but they aren't going as wild as before...so why are more of them turning up to vote this year? Maybe it is because this is a closer year. Either way, this is a good sign for the future of American Politics. Even early voting had lines. More people are getting out and voting, whether by absentee ballot or early voting. A larger participation from the public will lead to greater interest in government visibility.
On a separate note, Shit is going down in Mali...which borders Algeria...this has been going on for a bit so I don't know why i didn't know this..here is to me constantly feeling (and being) uninformed.
so here is an article that you will find interesting and hopefully my group will have some more interesting stuff to share with you next brief!
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/30/world/africa/us-tries-to-coordinate-anti-militant-push-in-mali.html
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