All over Ohio college students are voting for president, federal offices, state issues and making local decisions. Democrats love this because they believe these students will tip the state to Obama. These same people will argue it is the student's right and that their vote is the same as it would be in the state in which they should legally vote in, thus no big deal.
Students voting outside the precinct they call home, where their home is, is wrong. Our will concerning local issues and elections of local officials will be thwarted.
This morning, standing in a line long enough to be normally seen after work, I had the pleasure of over hearing 3 students from the local university talking about the election.
They obviously came from prosperous families. Two of them didn't have a clue. They also came from eastern states and thought Ohio a state of the second class.
The third student was obviously was an activist and was instructing the other two how to vote. On one statewide issue, he wasn't sure of the number, he was telling the other two that the issue wasn't about private property (that's a "b*llsh*t argument), it was about the environment and they vote against "some *ssh*le" who thinks he "owns our water".
The conversation went on and on as we waited to vote. People in line, other than me started getting upset, not only about the language being used (we were in a church), but also at the coercion and ignorance being used to produce a desired result.
One student then went on to say that they weren't sure about his situation and would decide once she got in the voting booth. The more active of the three pointed out that "they" would know because, "think about it", students make up more than 30% of the people voting here and "they'll know".
Upon signing in, all three produced a letter on university letterhead stating who they were and their right to vote and one-by-one all three produced out of state identification.
Soon, they'll go home for Thanksgiving Holiday, leaving us with their votes. In a year or so they will leave our state, never to return, and will hope their children will, unlike them, get into a "good" school.
Back east.
