Women, VOTE tomorrow!

Since the 1980 presidential election, women in the United States have outnumbered men at the polls.  There's been a lot of talk (and written words) focused on the theory that women in this country are so hopeless about the state of the economy and so disgusted by the lack of action on the part of our elected officials that they will skip voting in the midterms tomorrow.  I really hope this doesn't turn out to be the case.  Women voted in overwhelming numbers in the 2008 presidential election, and Barack Obama became the president-elect.  Many of those women were first-time registrants.  Many people (pollsters, pundits, commentators and journalists) claim that Obama won the election in large part due to the public being fed up with George W. Bush's disastrous foreign policy and generally piss-poor leadership.  This sentiment often discounts the brilliant and superior campaign strategy Obama's team enacted in the face of incredible odds.  Was the man, in addition to being super-smart and good looking, lucky?  Maybe, but he was also pretty picky about his campaign staff, and pretty picky about his message, and pretty picky about being inclusive. 

I watched a clip of the Sex in the City 2 Movie (actually, I watched two clips, but the first one was where Miranda and Charlotte claim to not understand how mothers who don't have full-time paid help manage their lives, which I found annoying) in which the four women, visiting the Middle East, sing at a karaoke club.  They sing "I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar" to a bar full of men and women of all nationalities.  It's cheesy (the entire movie is cheesy, I've heard), but the song seems newly inspiring to me:

"I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back an' pretend, 'cause I've heard it all before, and I've been down there on the floor, No one's ever gonna keep me down again...
I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long long way to go
Until I make my brother understand"

So, please vote tomorrow, American women!  Be picky, be choosy, and VOTE.