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[gfish]

I'm currently busing down to Seattle so I can attend the Stranger election party tomorrow. When I told the border guard why I was headed south he said, 'Oh yeah, the election is tomorrow, isn't it?' I managed to simply nod and mumble something in the affirmative, instead of following my immediate instinct to jump across the desk and shake him by the lapels.

Was 2004 this stressful? That's not how I remember it. I guess this is one of the drawbacks to really liking a candidate and allowing yourself to hope.

I just saw this, source unknown: This is like Christmas Eve, with the added suspense of wondering if Santa will bring you a pony or burn your house down.

Comments

[neuro42.livejournal.com]

how long are you in town for?

[gfish.livejournal.com]

Just for tomorrow, then back down again for the weekend.

[eeyorerin]

The Santa quote is from penknife's journal.

federally speaking

[beaq.livejournal.com]

2000 was sure as hell more stressful for me. I was also more stressed in 2004, because I was still het up from the evil cheat slimeness of 2000 and the resultant shiny new wars. I think I couldn't hate any administration as much as I have hated this one, so even though I understand that McCain probably = more Bush, I'm oddly unmoved. Which is sad, because Obama's the first candidate I've felt honored to be able to vote for.

Which is not to say I'm as gaspingly in love with him as many of my liberal white male associates seem to be (perhaps they're the only ones talking about it loudly); but there's something pretty cool about being able to vote for someone because they're black and still be absolutely sure it's the right vote. If I may be so cynical and yet so naive.

Re: federally speaking

[stellar-dust.livejournal.com]

I was also more stressed in 2004, because I was still het up from the evil cheat slimeness of 2000 and the resultant shiny new wars. I think I couldn't hate any administration as much as I have hated this one, so even though I understand that McCain probably = more Bush, I'm oddly unmoved. Which is sad, because Obama's the first candidate I've felt honored to be able to vote for.

Same here. If McCain is Santa burning my house down .. knowing we'd have four more years of Bush was Santa crapping all over my house, pouring gasoline on it, setting it on fire, laughing as it burned, then extinguishing the embers with hydrochloric acid.

.. perhaps I exaggerate, but not by much.

[creeves78.livejournal.com]

I'm really really scared that he's going to burn all our houses down. God help us all if he does.

[solarbird]

2004 was easily this stressful because by then both torture and the whole lawless/unitary executive thing was out in the open, and the election was in serious part a referendum on that.

And, well, you know what happened.

[callmem.livejournal.com]

For me 2000 was stressful, and after that I mostly detached emotionally from politics. 2004 was just a nail in the coffin. Really, the past 8 years have been a lot of nails in the coffin.

[maida-mac.livejournal.com]

I was pissed in 2004 and had a heck of a lot reason. I didn't have nearly as much personally invested in that election as this one, though.

My stomach hurts. Wake me when it's over.