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post-"venting and screaming" rambling
Nov. 4th, 2004 12:18 am[Believe me, I haven't been this sanguine about the situation all day, there's been a great deal of venting and stomping of feet and anger. This is me calmed down quite a bit.]
I didn't realize just how much I had emotionally invested in this election until I saw the news of Kerry's concession phone call. I feel drained; I've gone through the shock, denial, fear, despair and anger in the course of the afternoon. Frankly I'm still hanging out in "fear", because at this point Bush, who rode into office waving the "compassionate conservative" banner and then proceeded to toss that flag on the floor and stomp on it, now has absolutely zero incentive to even pretend to know the word "moderate" since he doesn't have to try to maximize chances for a successful re-election bid and he's got both a clearly Republican Congress and at least one upcoming Supreme Court appointment. Plus now the Senate Democrats get to duke it out for the minority leadership position, which might just nicely distract from other business (So I think in my more cynical moments. Like right now.)
Unless some miracle occurs -- but given the concession speech by someone who has much better data access than I do, I'm not expecting one -- this election is over. I'm giving myself a bit of time to mourn and rail against the apparent results, but then it's time to pick myself up off the floor and *do* something about it.
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I didn't realize just how much I had emotionally invested in this election until I saw the news of Kerry's concession phone call. I feel drained; I've gone through the shock, denial, fear, despair and anger in the course of the afternoon. Frankly I'm still hanging out in "fear", because at this point Bush, who rode into office waving the "compassionate conservative" banner and then proceeded to toss that flag on the floor and stomp on it, now has absolutely zero incentive to even pretend to know the word "moderate" since he doesn't have to try to maximize chances for a successful re-election bid and he's got both a clearly Republican Congress and at least one upcoming Supreme Court appointment. Plus now the Senate Democrats get to duke it out for the minority leadership position, which might just nicely distract from other business (So I think in my more cynical moments. Like right now.)
Unless some miracle occurs -- but given the concession speech by someone who has much better data access than I do, I'm not expecting one -- this election is over. I'm giving myself a bit of time to mourn and rail against the apparent results, but then it's time to pick myself up off the floor and *do* something about it.
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