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If I may rip off Meg Cabot and David Letterman:
Top Ten Reasons Why I Support Barack Obama

10. He is for a woman's right to choose.
9. He is for civil unions for homosexual marriage (which isn't as good as marriage, but it is better than nothing.)
8. He is for equal pay.
7. He is going to make healthcare available to all Americans.
6. He is for stem-cell research to help cure life-threatening diseases.
5. He wants to pull out of Iraq.
4. He supports alternative energy.
3. He supports tax cuts for working families.
2. He wants to teach comprehensive sex education in public schools.

And the number one reason I support Barack Obama:

1. John McCain is prejudiced, sexist, and wrong about almost every issue in the U.S. today. Barack Obama is not. You do the math.

About Me

I'm Katie. I'm fourteen and a high school freshman, so obviously I can't vote yet, but I try to be as involved in the political process as I can. I'm a liberal. I live in Virginia, which is traditionally a predominantly Republican state, though we are a battleground state for the first time in a billion years this year, which I think is pretty flipping awesome.

I blame my liberal-ness on three people. Person Number One and Person Number Two are my parents, for being part of the liberal minority of Virginia. Person Number Three is the girl on the playground in fifth grade who told me, on the day before Election Day 2004, that my parents were evil for supporting Kerry, as he was for abortion, and abortion is suffocating innocent babies. She caused me to do research and start watching news, and I came to the conclusion that abortion was not suffocating babies, among other things.

I also love YA. My favorite authors are , Meg Cabot, Maureen Johnson, John Green, Dorianne Cirrone, and E. Lockhart, though I love many others. My five favorite YA books, in no specific order, are All-American Girl, The Bermudez Triangle, Looking For Alaska, Dancing In Red Shoes Will Kill You, and The Boyfriend List, which are by said authors. My favorite classic novel is To Kill A Mockingbird (also one of my favorite movies, if anyone cares), with Of Mice and Men, Jane Eyre, Animal Farm, and The Catcher in The Rye as close runners-up. My favorite middle-grade books are the Anastasia series by Lois Lowry, Allie Finkle's Rules For Girls by Meg Cabot, and A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. I'm not really a fan of most adult books at the current time, though I do like The Boy Next Door by Meg Cabot.

On the off chance you can't tell, I like books a lot. After I graduate from college, I hope to be a librarian and write YA on the side, and perhaps be a small-time politician. By small-time, I mean being on a city council or school board. As awesome as it sounds, I could never really handle being president in 2032, as I'm fond of telling people.

If you'd like to know more about the non-political and non-bookish Katie, drop by my nerdfighter profile. I have to warn you, there is a lot of dancing going on there.