Tomorrow is Election Day

It seems like it took years for November 2 to arrive. So many months of negative political ads and dire predictions of a Republican takeover of the House. I've marked my sample ballot and I'm ready to cast my vote.

There has been so much talk about how this election is a referendum on President Obama's job performance, how the electorate is tired of nothing getting done or how they hate everything that's been accomplished. I for one am really, really tired of it all.

Let's look at Obama's peformance. Unemployment over 9%. The economy growing at a slow pace. Housing foreclosures continuing to rise. None of this is good stuff, but this is a result of eight years of a Republican president and his administration's agenda. Expecting all to be right in two years after it took eight years to get here is unrealistic.

As far as nothing getting done and what's been accomplished, here's a short list:
1) Health Insurance Reform so more people can get basic health care. This is something that has been attempted for the last 60 years. Obama did it within 2 years of being elected.

2) Financial Reform so consumers can be protected from getting ripped off by the financial industry. Republicans want to repeal this as soon as possible.

3) Saving our economy from tanking and taking down the rest of world in the process. No one wanted to bail out the banks, but this situation was inherited from, you guessed it, the Bush Administration.

These are just the ones I can quickly remember, but all of these are significant.

So, we await to see what happens tomorrow. And maybe, just maybe, we'll be pleasantly surprised that the enough people will have realized that voting Republican is the wrong thing to do.