Spanked

I wish our state had early voting, because I cannot wait to fill out my ballot. I want to do it RIGHT NOW.

I’m starting to get that Schindler’s List Feeling. That I’ll be standing outside my polling place at 2:00 a.m. on November 5th sobbing, “I could have gotten just one more vote. This person here, that’s one more vote…Or that person there, just one more vote…” until I dissolve into the arms of some balding, bespectacled Jew that consoles me for doing my best, then whispers, “Eh, maybe you could have blogged a little less? That would have killed you?”Bad, bad feeling.

I’d say I want to spank McCain, but that sounds even weirder. Oh, I just grossed myself out.

Take it from a lifelong Red Sox fan….it aint over till its over! (I know…Yogi Berra quote..but it fits) Never take anything for granted. I just cant wait till November 5th!

Dude, really gross. Sounds like the minutes of a Senate Republican Caucus meeting…

Campaign last so long he can talk about NH like it’s the olden days.

Ancedotal evidence is starting to come in that RThgz are trying to intimidate voters at the polls, pulling them out of line and such to give them material to help them “reconsider their vote.” I’m thinking about bringing mace. NO ONE pulls me out of line. There was an article in our local paper that PA’s voting machine might not be able to handle turnout since each machine gives the voter 3 minutes. Local poll workers say that they won’t close as long as people stay in line.

Totally right on, Bob. We can’t be complacent and assume we’ve got it all wrapped up. NC does have early voting, which I’ll be doing next week, and from what I’ve heard on my local news, they’ve had a pretty good turnout so far. We just gotta make sure that everyone gets out there too!And it’s interesting – for the first time in a while, I’m actually hoping not to get spanked.

McSame is going for $15 on http://www.intrade.com. Are you willing to make that bet? Not me.

It’s true what Bob says. Obama’s odds are excellent–much, much better than I’d bet any of us thought possible a short while ago–but we know that when you assume, you make an “ass” out of “u” and “me.” I don’t expect the worst of the right-wingers to go away without some fraud and Republicananigans. They are the most puerile bunch of bellyaching sods imaginable, and there’s no reason to think they’re going to accept gracefully a loss they’ve been earning 24/7 for the last eight years. As old “Nick Dixon” supposedly said when an acquaintance called him on the smear campaign he waged against Helen Gahagan Douglass in California, “You don’t understand. The important thing is to win.” The wingnut agenda is to turn the clock back in all possible ways, and they become more and more vicious as they realize the hands are starting to move forwards again. Now when Democrats lose, they tend to say something classy like Mo Udall did: “The American people have spoken–the bastards.”

I’m as nervous as I can be. Even when Obama reached 86.5 today on Intrade, I’m saying..uhhmmm…I’ll believe it when I see it.Even if you are convinced that he’s going to do it, he needs a Congress that will work with him, as well as state legislators and governors who won’t try to undo whatever federal action they don’t like.It’s not just about Obama…it’s also about making sure that he can succeed if he does actually get there…and that means, even if he’s really safe in your community, that we all work for other leaders, local and national, who will support him.

Something wicked this way comes.http://cousinavi.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/which-is-worse-gop-lies-or-the-idiots-that-buy-it/Elvis: I’m, bespectacled but not bald. And, in another example of how times have changed since Schindler’s days (not to mention The Bradley Effect), we’ve long since passed on being the sort of folks who will walk calmly onto the train and into the shower.ACORN = the thin of the wedge to purge the rolls, challenge every minority voter in swing states.Prediction: Recounts in every swing state to confirm every single ballot. The result will not be known until Christmas, and then litigated in the USSC.You don’t need “one more ballot”…we need to find some way ensure the ballots cast are properly counted and not discarded ex post facto as being “Unconfirmed”.It won’t be like Nigeria, with machete wielding gangs making folks stay home or vote “the right way”, but the principle is the same.It doesn’t matter who votes, or which way they vote. It matters who counts the ballots.

I voted early. But I am wishing I could vote again!!