A high-level thank you

When we got home from Brimson with our load of wood there were a few phone messages. One was from Karla Ekdahl, the wife of Independence Party gubenatorial candidate Peter Hutchinson. She thanked me for my "wonderful op-ed piece" about voting who we believe in, not who others say we should. She said she "just cheered."

See "Vote your conscience, not the polls" below for a summary. See the Star Tribune letters for Nov. 2 (http://www.startribune.com/563/story/784760.html) for what was printed. The Star Tribune cut some out from what I actually submitted, but they kept the essence.

I talked to a few people recently about who they wanted to vote for for governor or for Congress. Although they liked the candidate who was not a Republican or a Democrat, they intended to vote for the Democrat so the Republican wouldn't win, even though they didn't like the Democrat very much either. This gave rise to another little voting saying:

Vote not against who you want to see lose.
Vote for who you want to see win.