Voted.

Cast my vote for a Democratic gov/ltg here in MA because the one time I met Deval Patrick he really impressed me as a different kinda politician. I’ve been supporting his candidacy ever since — that was back before the primaries, before he was ever given a realistic shot at winning.

I did my usual voting for Green/Rainbow candidates as well. I think my vote for Patrick was the first time in years I’ve voted for a major party candidate. I’ve never voted for a Democrat OR Republican for President, ever, not since I first voted in 1980. Cast my vote over the years for everything from Greens — not for Nader, though — to Communists to various independent candidates. I’m a firm believer in the quixotic, and a firm supporter of voting for what I believe rather than for the lesser of two evils, or for a candidate I don’t dig just to keep another one from getting elected.

Of course, being from MA I have the luxury of doing this because we’re such a solidly Democratic state that my vote will do little. Monopolies suck, no matter whose monopoly they are. But my vote will help keep the Green Party on the ballot for another election cycle — they have to garner 5% or better to do so. I think that’s important. Very important.

If I lived in a more contested state, I’m not sure how I’d feel — but I suspect I’d do much the same thing a lot of the time.