The "other" elections

While working with the Colorado Democratic Party, I did not just campaign for the presidential elections. I also had the opportunity to campaign for the Senatorial and Congressional races as well. I was quite surprised to discover the lack of interest and knowledge in the Senate races by many of the voters. Considering the hype for the presidential candidates, it is possible that voters are so caught up in the events pertaining to the presidential elections that they are not paying much attention to the candidates in the other races. In many of our campaign events, I spent a lot of time reminding voters why the Senate elections are so important. Both candidates intend to make a large amount of changes, but they need the majority of support in the Senate to really bring about these changes. It is important that voters do not overlook the Senate races because if they want their candidate to be as effective as they may hope for him or her to be, they must help their candidate get the majority of support in the Senate.