What a Weak Week it might be!
So, this is it! All the rhetoric, the polls, the pontification and the mud-slinging will come to an end on Tuesday. Right? We will go to the polls (if not already), we will wait in line for hours losing our precious work time (money) and cast our votes. Then we will go home, make dinner, spend some time with the kids and watch our favorite Cable News chaNnel. We will watch as the states are called one by one and cheer for our guy while we dismiss any good news for the other. And then by 11 or so, we will know our next leader and we will all shake hands and exclaim:" Wow, well fought man. I thought we had it, but it was a good clean race." Then we will go to bed and wonder how we might best serve the country and the direction it's going now. Right?
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! By 11pm (whevere you are) , we will hear of the recapped news stories of voter fraud, intimidation and general discontent. We will see interviews with men and women of color , somewhere in Ohio, who say their vote will not be counted and they have lost faith. We will see the elderly in Florida throw up their arms, because they couldn't wait the 3 hours to vote and this would not have happened if they got their damned absentee ballots! And then to cap it all the off, the chairmen of both parties will face off in a shared interview laying out what the pending legal challenges are and where and when they will start.
Mark my words, America: This will not be pretty. There are International Election Observers here. Michael Moore will have 1,000 cameras throughout Ohio and Florida. There are at least 10,000 lawyers for each side spread throughout the swing states. And Colorado is voting on a law that is being challenged even before it is vote upon. The courts and the congress are gonna decide this one unless....
Unless it's a blowout. One way or the other. This Election will be contested. The only way a blowout will happen is if all these newly registered voters actually vote. If they do, we will see 125,ooo,ooo (<--- that's million) Voters! That will change polling forever. A blowout would be firmly winning the Electoral college by more than 15 and the popular vote by more than 5%. That is all it means this year
It will change this country forever. And here's how. If Bush wins, we will know that we are indeed a Christian Nation with Conservative values--or at least the majority is. We will know that the country approves of someone who is simply resolute. We will know that the country beleives women and minorities and people of various lifestyles are not welcomed, accepted and certainly not tolerated.
If Kerry wins a blowout, we will know that this country is far more liberal than we have been led to beleieve. We will know that the majority of Americans feel as if their government lied to them and it cannot be trusted. We will know that it takes aot of money to compete with these guys.
Either way, the real battle is for congress. Can we please have a balanced government that works for the people? Or does that simply spell stalemate. They hold their line, we hold ours and it never ends. I don't know what is going to happen. But I am really hoping for a blowout either way. This country needs clarity and identity. I may disagree with it, I may not, but at least I will know.
Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! By 11pm (whevere you are) , we will hear of the recapped news stories of voter fraud, intimidation and general discontent. We will see interviews with men and women of color , somewhere in Ohio, who say their vote will not be counted and they have lost faith. We will see the elderly in Florida throw up their arms, because they couldn't wait the 3 hours to vote and this would not have happened if they got their damned absentee ballots! And then to cap it all the off, the chairmen of both parties will face off in a shared interview laying out what the pending legal challenges are and where and when they will start.
Mark my words, America: This will not be pretty. There are International Election Observers here. Michael Moore will have 1,000 cameras throughout Ohio and Florida. There are at least 10,000 lawyers for each side spread throughout the swing states. And Colorado is voting on a law that is being challenged even before it is vote upon. The courts and the congress are gonna decide this one unless....
Unless it's a blowout. One way or the other. This Election will be contested. The only way a blowout will happen is if all these newly registered voters actually vote. If they do, we will see 125,ooo,ooo (<--- that's million) Voters! That will change polling forever. A blowout would be firmly winning the Electoral college by more than 15 and the popular vote by more than 5%. That is all it means this year
It will change this country forever. And here's how. If Bush wins, we will know that we are indeed a Christian Nation with Conservative values--or at least the majority is. We will know that the country approves of someone who is simply resolute. We will know that the country beleives women and minorities and people of various lifestyles are not welcomed, accepted and certainly not tolerated.
If Kerry wins a blowout, we will know that this country is far more liberal than we have been led to beleieve. We will know that the majority of Americans feel as if their government lied to them and it cannot be trusted. We will know that it takes aot of money to compete with these guys.
Either way, the real battle is for congress. Can we please have a balanced government that works for the people? Or does that simply spell stalemate. They hold their line, we hold ours and it never ends. I don't know what is going to happen. But I am really hoping for a blowout either way. This country needs clarity and identity. I may disagree with it, I may not, but at least I will know.
posted by Michael St. James at 10:16 AM
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