During the mid-term election, questions were raised as to whether certain voters would actually show up? At the top of the list were the Millennials. Many pundits projected that these are the voters who do a lot of talking, but historically do not show up when its time to actually cast your ballot, particularly in mid-term/non-presidential election years. This time, Millennials called their bluff and showed up in numbers that more than doubled their rate of participation from past mid-term elections and for that they get a standing ovation. Women are the most engaged population of voters and in this past election 67% of them voted Blue, which resulted in sending more than 100 women to the next Congress in January 2019.
Many are touting this election season as a Pink Wave rather than a Blue one. Either way the outcome demonstrated some historic choices from the youngest Congresswoman ever elected, to the first Indigenous women elected to Congress, to the first Muslim women Representatives, to Veteran women from a former fighter pilot to a former CIA agent, to name but a few of the many historic firsts that were achieved. The Democratic takeover of the House of Representatives, providing a check and balance on the Executive Branch of government, can largely be attributed to the quality and diversity of the female candidates running for office and the Resistance Movement, which launched the day after the inauguration of Donald J. Trump as President in January 2017.
Our newly elected and re-elected women in the House and in the Senate ALL deserve a standing ovation. The citizenry of the United States of America engaged in an unprecedented way for a non-presidential election year and WE the People deserve a standing ovation. There are STILL elections being decided and voter recounts happening in at least two states. When people show up to cast his/her or their ballot, the ballot MUST be counted and no government official, political party or affiliate has any right to interfere or impede that process. We have ALL learned if we didn’t already know, Elections have Consequences! Because we live in a representative democracy, it is essential that “We the people” have our voices heard and our votes counted because our Senators and Representatives are the only way that we can participate in the Legislative 
branch of our democracy. Maintaining the democratic process and protecting the constitutional right to vote that each and every citizen has in what we declare as “free and fair elections” is paramount.
The citizens of the United States of America want the three branches of government to work as designed by the founders and illuminated in the U.S. Constitution. We showed up and voted to put a CHECK and BALANCE on unfettered government and the overreach of presidential powers without proper oversight and for that, We the People get a big Standing Ovation![mycred_link id=virtscav504 href=”http://urbanviewsrva.com/congratulations/”]
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