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Welcome to Backyard Blog, our group online journal for this election season. We've asked a broad array of people with deep ties to the region to share their views on politics during the 2004 campaign.
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November 01, 2004
| An election eve thought |
| Posted by Carl Gipson at November 1, 2004 05:09 PM |
For quite some time I’ve been sensing everywhere, and with everyone, a great sense of voter fatigue. What will happen tomorrow? Just how on edge is everyone? Do we really need or want all these damn lawyers to figure out which hanging chads actually count?
This country has always been divided ideologically. There have always been political parties and nasty campaigning and tricks and deceit. There have always been flip-floppers, stubborn ideologues, playboys and even drunkards serving as presidents. Every four years have been “THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF YOUR LIFE.”
My skills of prognostication are no better than your average political pundit so I won’t waste paper [or pixels - Ed.] making subjective electoral guesses.
Suffice it to say that tomorrow someone will win and someone will lose and since no one is going to flee the continent due to the results—save Alec Baldwin—we had all better learn to at least treat each other with some vestige of civility (at least until the mid-term elections).
However, if John Kerry were to win tomorrow’s election I am somewhat consoled by what the author Tom Wolfe has to say about the Massachusetts Senator: “[Senator Kerry] is a man no one should worry about at all. He is not going to introduce some manic radical plan, because he is poll-driven, and it is therefore impossible to know where or for what he stands.”
Not that a blowing-in-the-wind kind of administration is what this country needs right now, however.
Here’s to a relatively smooth transition into either another four years of Bush or a new Kerry administration. Please leave the lawyers outside the polling place. The American electorate doesn’t deserve another month of this bickering.
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