Ever since I started paying attention to this past presidential race, I have done the math about when I’ll be able to vote about a billion times. I’ll tell you now!! So I’m fourteen, and the election just happened which means I’ll be eighteen for the next election. Which means I’ll be able to vote, and I’ll just barely be of age because my birthday is in July. I think that it is so exciting, in fact it’s exhilarating. In four years, I could make as big a difference in the polls as voters did in this election!!! I’ll be able to go into those big booths and vote just like my parents and other adults I know. I can hardly wait.
This election has really opened me up to how important voting and all that is really important. Before this election, I didn’t particularly pay attention to who was the president (even though I knew who he was of course) and what was going on in the world. Now I do and it is really all because of this election. What I have noticed is that a lot of people in my class have been talking about what has happened during the campaign, who is president and just politics in general like why the economy is in shambles. I remember one day, I was on the bus and all these guys were literally screaming at each other about why the economy was in such a wreck. And when I say screaming, I mean it. And it was the whole 30 minute bus ride too. Although listening through the howls, what they were saying was true and I could see why they were debating. This election has raised awareness about the world, politics in general and the importance of voting. There are about 900ish people in my school and when we all vote eventually, that will be 900ish more than there was.
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