Huffington Post: Connecting Yom-Kippor and the Elections

What's the connection between a wailing hungry Jew at the eve of Kol Nidre and an anxious American voter? According to Haim Watzman writing for Huffington Post, it's all the same.

"Penitents are like voters. They face critical choices, ones that will set the course of their lives, and must make them in a situation of uncertainty. Committed voters try to grope through the fog of rhetoric in order to understand the true wills and predilections of the candidates they must choose from; penitents seek to dispel the mystery and ambiguity that cloaks the divine in order to understand what God wants of their lives.

But when I look around me this year, three days before Yom Kippur and a month before the American elections, I have a feeling that a lot of Jewish penitents and American voters are not using an essential tool that they need to make their choices. I mean irony."