More Election FUN!
Part of my reaction to the election is similar to what
Howie Kurtz points :


But is the press pack now overinterpreting Tuesday's results? Who really knows whether the president's frenetic campaigning made the difference? Besides, a switch of roughly 29,000 votes in Minnesota, 11,500 in Missouri and 9,500 in New Hampshire would have produced a Democratic Senate and gobs of stories about how the White House blew it.

"The cycle for the next few days," says Polman, "will be to beat up on ourselves for having said for days and days that this is a 50-50 nation: Boy, aren't we foolish! But the underlying fundamentals haven't changed all that much."

However, it is unsual for this kind of nonsense to happen. The last time something like this did happen was in 1934 (if I'm not mistaken). Its not unusual for midterm elections are decided by a few voters. In Downsize This Michael Moore observed that the 1994 Republican "Revolution" was decided by 500,000 votes. This election was decided by even fewer, so it really shouldn't be taken as a national "thumbs-up" for Bush-Cheney and the GOP.

Anyway, I rambling and getting off track(as well as being to lazy to rewrite this and make it stay on track the whole way)....

The Election? Let's see. Suprising. Unfortunate. Difficult to understand. Maybe we will probably have wait for the exit polls to come out (Voter News Service is basically defunct at this point, so we must wait untill the census folks get around to putting this nonsense together), before we fully understand what all this means. In the mean time, put on some goggles, because the GOP own the Federal Government and things are going to be unpleasant if you concerned with concerned with corporate crime, the fate of the underprivelleged and the future of Roe V. Wade.

Perhaps 2 years of Republican rule will make the apathetic and indifferent (as well as those damn fools in the Green party, that can't see the difference between the Republicans and the Democrats) see the GOP as it really is, an alliance between the superrich and the social conservative cavemen and maybe the Democrats will get their shit together (ha ha ha, exuse me, but I must laugh or I'll cry) knock Bush's teeth out come 2004. Or so I hope, desperately...