(#6467) 18 days until we know election results...We are slightly ahead of the 2024 early vote return rate

      With this mornings count of 2026 midterm ballots returned back in total as of this moment is 8,379,615. As of noon on October 17, 2024, the returned number was 8,336,501. And it isn't even noon yet today. My point here is that like a presidential election, this midterm is critical to the voters even though no president is being elected. Yet putting a check on this president is appearing to be just as crucial as electing one. We know the blue wave election this year is a real likelihood. I won't say absolutely but I am of no doubt that the enthusiasm to curb the current president is a powerful mood in our nation and that is undeniable. Granted the election in 2024 was on November 5th and this years election is on November 3rd, the equivalence is close enough to make the assumption of it being close to on par for now.
     That makes me feel very good for our nation. That this election isn't being treated as previous midterms with too many voters dismissing their duty to vote. I am not even bothering to compare this midterm with the four years ago midterm. This midterm feels much more important. Never in my lifetime except for possibly 2008 and 2018 have I felt the urgency of an election when so many others are of the same feeling. I always feel urgency about elections because when I am no longer part of this world, I want the world to be in a better place than when I arrived in it. Since my first recollections in the late 1950's I can say for sure the world is improving. Yet only in fits and starts. Not in a more smooth ascension like it could easily have improved with less disagreeable and/or ignoble candidates.
     This election is more about correcting a horrible mistake than it is about anything else. Which means if/when we do correct it we have much work to do to get back on track with improving our world. We have had an election like this in 2018 during the first trump fiasco and now again in his second even worse administration or more accurately lack thereof administration. Today I plan to go out and support the No Kings rally in my town. I have already been informed by the Secretary of State through a text that my ballot is with the elections office in my county. So today is a day to show solidarity with like minded souls who also believe that our democracy is worth fighting for on the protest march front!