Extra Credit 10

This extra credit was for me to vote.  I voted via mail in Florida.  This was an incredibly fulfilling experience.  I planned to vote in Vermont, where I am from, but discovered that as a student I was able to vote in Florida.  I was really excited to vote in a swing state for the first time in a crucial election.  I was especially thrilled when Florida, a state that for much time was "too close to call", tipped in favor of Obama, making me feel like it was my vote that tipped the scale.  Voting is something that all eligible peoples should participate in.  It is a right and a unique opportunity given the citizens of our country to give some say in the way our country ought to be run.  If this election taught me anything, it is that Americans maybe aren't as greedy and hopeless as the past has made us seem.