Election day

Martha Gamez leads Get Out The Vote for Jerry McNerney in Tracy, California.

Barbara Crafton describes an engaged citizen.

Informed and devoted. He never gives up on our political process, no matter what it serves up. He never disengages. He's not a person who won't watch the news because it's "too upsetting." He'll risk sad and he'll risk mad, but he won't risk apathy, because an apathetic voter acquiesces in tyranny, which is more possible in this country than most Americans think it is.

Today belongs to the voters and the scurrying campaign volunteers. I must run off to hunt down voters.