Red or Blue?

Tomorrow’s the last day you can register to vote. It would be totally hypocritical of me to tell you to all go out and register, because I’m not voting. Yes, you read that right. I. Am. Not. Voting. I have a lot of reasons, including not feeling like I know enough about the candidates to make an educated decision, knowing that because of where I live my vote doesn’t count in the grand scheme, and a few others. I don’t want to discourage anyone from voting if they want to, it’s just not something I feel the need to do.

I remember when I turned 18, I couldn’t wait to vote. Of course my birthday is in January, so I had a while to wait. November creeped up on me and I didn’t register. It was just a local election that year so it didn’t seem like a huge deal. I was going to school in Logan but spending weekends and summers in Syracuse. Neither place really felt like “my city.” Same thing happened last year. And this year, well, I just don’t care.

Whenever I tell people this, I get the typical lecture “if you don’t vote, you can’t complain.” It’s justifiable, but in Utah, where everyone knows that the electoral votes are going to Romney, does my vote really count? It’s not like the people in charge really listen anyways.

I guess a lot of this is because I’m not really aware of what’s going on. Basically if it isn’t on the MSN homepage or affecting something I really care about, I don’t know. I feel like being in college is like living in a bubble. Maybe I’ll register when I’m living in the “real world.” Until then, I’m not going to get too worked up about the whole thing.

What are your thoughts on voting? Are you going to?