I’d like to state up front that I’m pretty sure that very few people really care who I’m voting for; I’m offering this information a little self-indulgently. You might gather from the content of this site that I’m a typical liberal who would automatically vote for the Democratic candidate. This is actually not at all the case; the market-research-based centrism and values-voter pitches of the two parties literally nauseate me. I queasily voted for Kerry in 2004, and a less-queasily voted for Gore in 2000, but easily could have voted for a Ronald Reagan at the time if one had been running. I’m not feeling at all queasy this time around, as I prepare to give my vote to Barack Obama. I feel pretty confident that he means a lot of what he says, and is level-headed, intelligent, and motivated enough to accomplish some of the things he claims he wants to do. Bring on the Hope & Change, those two things are enough for me to run with, how about you?