2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumAna Navarro: I'm voting for Hillary Clinton -- and against Donald Trump
By Ana Navarro
Updated 1:05 PM ET, Mon November 7, 2016
(CNN) I didn't want to write this. I avoided making a decision as long as I could. I schlepped my absentee ballot all over the country for almost four weeks. I would periodically take it out of the envelope, look at it, shake my head in disgust, and put it back in my suitcase.
I had decided to write-in my mother as a symbolic protest vote against the Democratic and Republican nominees. I didn't want to vote for either of them.
I had hoped that a week before the election, Trump would be losing Florida by a large enough margin that my vote wouldn't matter. But darn it, my home state is too close to call. Florida could be the decisive state (again) as to who ultimately becomes the next president of the United States. I thought back to the 2000 election, which was decided by 537 votes in Florida. I thought about how I would feel if the same thing happened in 2016. I thought and I thought and I thought....
Then I cast my vote for Hillary Clinton. Let me rephrase that. I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.
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http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/07/opinions/navarro-republican-voting-for-clinton/index.html
Democrats Ascendant
(601 posts)It took her long enough, but she's ending up on the correct side of history!!!
hamsterjill
(15,224 posts)So, good for Ana. I've admired her outspokenness during this election season as to her calling Trump what he is.
But I'm sure that after Wednesday, she will be back pimping the Republican agenda. Either way, it's still one more vote in Florida for Hillary, and I'll take it!