By De Elizabeth

I find that it’s important to start this article by saying I’m not the type of person who writes articles like this. I’ve never considered myself super political. Sure, I have always cared about voting, and I’ve known that it’s important, but I never did anything beyond just go to the polls in November to cast my vote. I followed the primaries in 2008 and I was excited to vote for Obama, and was equally enthusiastic to re-elect him in 2012. But that’s all that drove me – excitement and optimism. And those feelings didn’t motivate me to do anything else beyond “just vote.”

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