I’m liberal on social issues, but fiscally conservative.  This usually pushes me towards the democrat side of things, given that they agree with me on one of those two things, whereas the modern republican party agrees with me on neither.

Still, I think there is a better reason to vote for Obama than that: to me, it is important to punish incompetence, and the GOP has been incompetent for the last eight years, between 9/11, the war, Katrina and the current financial meltdown.  If there is one thing that I’ve learned as a game designer, it is that if you reward incompetence, you only get more incompetence in return.

But don’t let me change your mind – but do vote.  I think that the 2000 election alone has proven that voting matters.

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