PEAK TO PEAK – We’re out of time. If you haven’t mailed your ballot by now, you’d better use a drop box, because we just can’t count on USPS to get mail to its intended recipient in less than a week.
Unless you are living off the grid, you’ve been deluged by political ads – online, on TV, via text – most of them frantically urging you to support some candidate with $$$$, or nagging you about the dismal failures and horrible future promised by another candidate. The mainstream news cycle is dominated by reports of the “horse race” – the incredibly close poll numbers that tend to create a sense of urgency in the observer.
Well, that’s the “big” races. Colorado has its own set of urgent issues on the ballot. Do you care about them? Someone in the PNW cared so much about this election that he set firebombs in ballot drop boxes. That won’t happen here, but the ads for some of the State issues are pretty dramatic.
Here in our own little corner of paradise (yes, I repeat myself, because it’s true), the local races are also, most unusually for us, pretty hot as well. Is that a reflection of what’s going on nationally? Perhaps, although party politics has historically tended not to play a huge role in our local elections. But then, we’ve never seen national partisanship this fraught before.
The point is: your vote is important. Especially in our small areas. With our tiny population, a race can be won or lost by just a few votes (and I’m not talking about a national “few,” like the mere 11,000 in Georgia). So go fill out your ballot and drop it in one of the (nearly certainly safe) drop boxes. Your vote here matters.
