Vote and pay attention to what the guys in the ballot box are doing.
Absolutely true, but I would also add to that.....
Stop voting for lawyers...!!!
Putting lawyers in a position to create laws is like handing the keys to your new car to a drunk, and giving him the option to drive home....
Lawyers only make laws that benefit lawyers, one of the reasons we need serious tort reform in this country. Frivolous law suites are strangling this country, and many of it's industries, when you create a climate where anybody can sue anybody for any reason, then everybody will abuse that right looking for the big pay off, that money has to come from somewhere's, and usually on our backs in the form of high insurance premiums, high consumer prices, higher drug and health costs...etc...etc...
Research your canidates closely, see what they really support, and don't support, what's their voting record, doesn't matter which political party they come from, is that man or woman true to their word, or do they say what they think you want to hear before the election, then vote party lines after the election.
For the first time in many years I voted for three democrats in the NJ state legislative elections. The reasons.... none of the three were ever lawyers, and all three are strong supporters of my second amendment rights. Their republican counter parts were all lawyers, and none of them would answer my requests for a firm stance either way on my gun rights....I "a registered republican" voted for the three democrats, and when Govnor Corzine pushed for a "one gun a month" bill, they were the only three democrats in the state to oppose it, going strongly against all others in their party.
Remember....Ronald Regan was once a democrat who said...."I didn't leave the democratic party, the democratic party left me".... He turned out to be one of the best presidents of my lifetime, and the only people he didn't endear himself to were the far left, and the entitlement dependent peoples of the inner cities....