PLEASE RE-BLOG
I don’t normally say that? but everyone is talking (shaming people) about how the Congressional elections are SO IMPORTANT - but nobody is educating folks on how to go about it.HERE IS HOW
Hey kids, don’t forget - it’s not just a presidential election! Keep hitting the polls!!!
AND DO NOT FORGET, MINDS CAN CHANGE OVER TIME. If every vote for the last 15 years was progressive, but in 1994 you find out that your candidate voted against a minimum-wage increase, consider all the evidence. Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater. Have they voted for increases since then? Spoken about income inequality? Politicians are also people (well–most of them, I still think Malevolent Tangerine is a scientific experiment gone horribly wronger), and they can learn and grow too.
Links, because it helps to not have to type in URLs sometimes.
This site lets you check your registration, see what is on your ballot, compare all the candidates on the ballot based on their on-the-record statements about key issues, decide who you want to vote for and select them for your ballot, and print out or text or email a sample ballot for yourself. It is extremely helpful. Not all polling places let you bring such a sample ballot with you into the booth, but, it’s extremely helpful if you have no idea what or who to vote for railroad commission or 3rd circuit 5th court or whatever.