I'm voting on Tuesday for Obama.

I don't have to go through a bunch of reasons or rationales or tell you that McCain is a good friend but there's no way I can vote for his elderly ass.

None of these people are my friends. I don't know any of them. I shared a stage (albeit separated by about fifteen minutes) with the Democratic nominee for the House in my district, but I don't know the guy. He is taller than me, though.

And I didn't take off half a day of work to wait in line at the early voting sites, either. It's kinda funny, in a way, how many people are voting early this year. More than 50 percent of my county has voted so far. Already. And what most people said is they didn't want to be waiting in line on Tuesday. Well, I'm pretty sure I'm gonna be able to walk right in on Tuesday, since everyone else stood in line over the last couple of weeks.

I'm a genius. Or maybe I'm just a little more patient. Voting early doesn't change the fact that we won't know for sure until Tuesday night who wins. But maybe it makes people feel better knowing they're done with the extremely exhausting civic duty of marking a few Xes on a sheet of paper.

I'm also voting for the tax increase in my part of the state to support the transportation improvements (buses and commuter trains) we've had over the last few years (and a few years to come, including service to Santa Fe...even though it doesn't make me like Santa Fe any more than before).

I'd vote for universal health care, but it's not on the ballot. At least not in any direct way. It's kinda funny that a lot of people say universal health care is socialist and they don't want the government in their health care decisions. Right now our employers are, for the most part, the ones who have a say in our health care. I have yet to find a doctor on my health care list who is taking new patients. And so I guess this is better? I pay a little bit a month for health care I can't even use because the doctors are too busy.

It's a good thing I'm healthy (relatively speaking), I guess, since my employer provided health care is so useful and effective.

I'd vote to end this stupid war in Iraq. A war we still don't quite know who we're fighting or what we're fighting for. But that isn't a direct ballot issue either.

I'd vote for a time machine initiative, too, if I thought this was possible. But it's not. We can't go back in time and change the stupid things we've done. Somehow we've got to muddle through the extremely exhausting and painful process of fixing everything after we've screwed it up. Which, come to think of it, is a lot like our health care system.

Speaking of being healthy, it's gonna be a martini night on Tuesday. We'll see how far it goes as to how many martinis it's gonna be.

They can't really call it till eight my time (you figure they don't want to tell the west coast their votes don't count), but I figure we'll know before I hit the bed. Maybe I'm being too optimistic, but it doesn't seem as close as some people keep saying it is.

No matter what, we'll have a new president elect by next week, and everyone will take a break from talking about polls and votes and wardrobes and Tina Fey.

Speaking of that comedienne, I think if she and Alec Baldwin (as VP) were running, they'd take it in a landslide.

Matt Worley lives less than two blocks away from his voting place.