Battle of the Senators, round 3, vote 1

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Round 2, vote 5 Winners (top 5 advance)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT, 18%, 73% of the vote)
John Kerry (D-MA, 11%, 47% of the vote)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN, 11%, 47% of the vote)
Chuck Hagel (R-NE, 10%, 40% of the vote)
Ron Wyden (D-OR, 10%, 40% of the vote)

This poll combines the winners from brackets 1 and 2, with the top 2 advancing.  It will close on Saturday.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I must confess, he is my absolute favorite senator

Same here, except he's second to Ted Kennedy.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I have a pretty racist past, too.  But people can and do change.

I realize the Second Klan was strongest in Indiana, etc., etc., but still...that's interesting.

LOL -- Actually, it's weird.  I was born to very bigoted parents.  My sisters are each older and bigoted...and married to bigots.  So I came by it naturally.  They still are, more or less.  I am not.  The story of what changed me and how is pretty intense, a tad on the mystical side and probably not for a forum like this.

I won't get into the details except to say Jesus Christ changed me.  I was a Christian before the change, so it's not like becoming a Christian was the answer.  It was more like realizing that every time I hated someone because of their color, religion or sexual orientation...I was hating Jesus Christ, who I claimed to love.  The clouds parted, as it were.

I can't figure out why it never happened for the rest of my family, who also claim (sometimes rather loudly) to be evangelical Christians.

Fantasitc, JSojourner; it's a shame more evangelicals aren't like you.