America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy -- and won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

For too long we've been told about "us" and "them." Each and every election we see a new slate of arguments and ads telling us that "they" are the problem, not "us." But there can be no "them" in America. There's only us.

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice of those by whom they are to be governed; and no one will ever believe that a liberal, wise, and energetic government can spring from the suffrages of a subservient people.

The poll that matters is the one that happens on Election Day.