If 10 frames of bowling between Bush and Kerry surrogates is any indication of how things will go tonight, Kerry is in trouble.
BtC (Bush) beat trusty sidekick Lisa Heyamoto (Kerry) 108-71 at Leilani Bowl, a Hawaiian-themed place in Greenwood that's also a hotbed of pro-I-892 activity. That's the slot machine initiative that would allow places with pull-tabs, like, say, Leilani Bowl, to have slot machines.
Big Lebowski reference: "Walter, This has nothing to do with Vietnam!" That might have been a good motto for both candidates this year.
As for midday patrons, they're pretty evenly divided when it comes to the election.
Wes Dahl, 47, a Seattle resident, is eager for it all to be over. His fiance works for the state Republican party. He doesn't expect to see her until late tonight, and, "She might be grumpy," he said.
He voted for President Bush and Dino Rossi, and for the slot machine initiative.
As for the 1-cent increase in the sales tax for an education trust fund: "I don't got no kids. Someone else can pay for it."
Chris Pleasants, 19, said of the surrogate bowling match between Bush and Kerry: "Kerry got off to a slow start with a double gutter in the first frame, which seemed to parallel the presidential race."
Pleasants voted for the first time this year, and he voted for Kerry. He said he wants America to strengthen its alliances.
He registered to vote when the Declaration of Independence made a national tour recently and stopped in Seattle, he said.
How can you be cynical when you hear that?
Next stop: Tini Bigs, to watch results come in. |
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