Thank you for being so infromative, I sincerly appericiate that. I am 24 and most of my family has lost the right to vote, so growing up it wasnt' a dicussion that was ever brought up. It didn't matter much to get involved because their votes wouldn't be accounted for. I had a really hard time deiciding who I would vote for last time w/ Bush and Kerry, sadly I did vote for Bush just for the fact that I couldn't see the other canidates strong enough to carry us through the war. This election I vowed to digg deep so I would be proud to say yes I voted for ......I don't want to make my self sound ignorant because I am not, I just haven't had the best schooling , now as an adult I am disappointed in how my education was. It wasn't an important issue to my parents  and it wasn't an important matter to my teacher's and well of course I didn't mind for not getting in trouble that I never did school work. Later when I was in high school I was so far behinde that I could not understand enough to keep up w/ the class. I gave up and just played the "bad girl", I don't do work role. Which was sad because I wanted to learn but no one had time to teach me. I would get frustrated when I really tried to do my school work to get my paper back only to see FAILED in big red letters. I just stopped trying and I just kept passing to the next grade. It is really important to my to take part in who I want for our President. I have 2 small children although I will be dedicated and very involved in their schools I still want them to have a better experience. I am scared to vote for another republician because I am not wealthy and neither is my family. I don't have much of a choice though. I just wish that our public programs would be alot better. I am not on well fair I never have been ,I don't recieve food stamps, or even medical and it is really hard on me to barely make it being on my own. Although it does feel good to know that I can and I am. I hope that he will take his presidency seriously and looks at all people, rich and poor and helps us build a better foundation for us and our children. A stronger nation teaching us to be smarter and ensuring a future for our great country. HOME OF THE BRAVE AND THE LAND OF THE FREE!!!!