Election Day
I feel like I should be writing something profound today, but I just can't make myself do it. I'd call it equal parts lazy, and political fatigue. If I wrote something, it'd come out like a pastiche of every talking point I've read on the internet for the past two years.
When election results begin coming in tonight, I'll be doing an after-hours event at the Museum. Once home, I won't be able to follow Wolf Blitzer's magic wall, or watch Fox News call Vermont for McCain, because I cancelled my cable TV two months ago (and am living quite well without it).
I received my last one of these stickers several weeks ago, the first day early voting began...
The next time I vote, it'll be in another state, hopefully a place where someone with my beliefs and views can feel like they belong. Georgia is not it. As most of the country is waking up and getting a clue, other parts, like Georgia, are pushing back harder. Even so, Saxby Chambliss won't have the easy coasting to re-election like he'd hoped. But Georgia can have him. My Senators will be Salazar and Udall. And my President...
When election results begin coming in tonight, I'll be doing an after-hours event at the Museum. Once home, I won't be able to follow Wolf Blitzer's magic wall, or watch Fox News call Vermont for McCain, because I cancelled my cable TV two months ago (and am living quite well without it).
I received my last one of these stickers several weeks ago, the first day early voting began...
The next time I vote, it'll be in another state, hopefully a place where someone with my beliefs and views can feel like they belong. Georgia is not it. As most of the country is waking up and getting a clue, other parts, like Georgia, are pushing back harder. Even so, Saxby Chambliss won't have the easy coasting to re-election like he'd hoped. But Georgia can have him. My Senators will be Salazar and Udall. And my President...