OK, who else is just gonna be a nervous wreck until November 2?

I've felt like hell all this week and I'm not sleeping well. I also seem to be having some trouble concentrating on anything but the election. Yesterday I had to tell Liza to "put the poll down and step away from the monitor" because she was so worked up about the Gallup thing.

I dunno how Kerry is staying calm through all this. I'm gonna be really friggin' glad when it's all over, because I'm not going to be much good to anyone until then.

What I wonder about is what we're going to see Team Bush do in the next week--not because they have planned anything, but because we know that Bush doesn't handle pressure very well. Will there be a public meltdown? WHo knows?

Is it November yet?

Yeesh,

The Plaid Adder

I wish they had shots for this one... ;)

by the way,:hi:

:D

My finger joints are aching, which happens sometimes when I'm stressed (not sure why, exactly)

And I've got a paper due Friday, which I haven't started.

Trouble concentrating...nooo...why do you ask? :D

I'm not convinced this thing will be over on November 2nd, even if the Chimperor concedes!

and then be worried as hell for the last couple of months of Bush's lame duck presidency. No telling what kind of Armegeddon Bush has on his mind.

I hate to say it, but last night I even looked up the rules of succession as they apply to the president elect. The scary part is, if Kerry is (god save us) assassinated after the election but before the Electoral College meets in December to seal their votes, the rules of succession DO NOT APPLY. John Edwards would not become president. Instead the Electoral College would be given complete discretion as to who to appoint. If Kerry was killed in a terrorist attack, it's completely conceivable they would re-select Bush.

Yeah, it's a crazy scenario, but after the past few years, I don't take our democracy for granted anymore. Like you, I won't rest until he's safely seated in the Oval Office with the ex-president's helicopter receding in the background.

to imagine. Now I feel sick...

As happy as I'll be when Kerry wins, I'm not getting too excited until he takes office.

I still fear that * and his minions (or is he the minion?) will do anything to stay in power.

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C ya,

The Plaid Adder

I should note that support for Kerry in Texas is greater than it is in the Mid-West plains states such as Nebraska. Kerry is running 39%-40% here, while only 25% in Nebraska. So maybe that T-Shirt logo should be tweeked. :)

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but in a good way. I have a feeling we are going to win big.
The only thing that troubles me is the prospect of a very close election and the resulting chaos that could ensue. However, the reports of huge numbers of new Democratic voter registrations and big turnout for early voting here in GA bode well for Democrats.

I feel more anticipation than anxiety. However, it is making it very difficult to concentrate on work. The fact that I'm writing on my thesis on my computer doesn't help. There's been an open window with this DU forum in it all week.

edit: clarity

only because I know we are basically dealing with an organized crime family, and they are capable of anything.
The sentiment is in our favor, the wind at our back, but I am still fairly well anxiety ridden.

My nerves have been shot. The news about Renquist didn't help any,.

I've noticed that going door-to-door canvassin has an amazingly calming effect...

This is not going to be over until long after it's over. The Republicans will never accept a loss, if that's the result on the day. They'll keep fighting and fighting and fighting, they'll use every dirty scummy trick they can devise. I hope the Democrats are strong enough - and funded enough - to persevere. I'm sure Kerry has the stomach for the fight, but I hope he has the support.

if it's obviously that Kerry 'really' won, I'll feel better even if the REpublicans don't concede--which I seriously doubt they will. One thing I can say Kerry has going for him is that I am fully confident that he wants to fight these thieving ratbastards even more than I do.

Yahoo,

The Plaid Adder

I think we're in for a bumpy ride next week. I hope I'm wrong.

and will continue to feel this way until we remove the squatters from the WH.

chin strapped.

My good cigars are almost gone, and if my liver could take it I'd be drinking.

There is so much at stake that losing is unthinkable.

Visualize victory!

The past 4 years have been a waking nightmare. Only good thing is I lost all my pregnancy weight and now even my smallest 501s sag off my ever shrinking ass.

I get all jiggly inside.

Healdsburg to be exact...the heart of beautiful Sonoma County wine world. Hope you still get jiggly...I'm still laughing at the chin strap.

I sensed as much.
I'm familiar with your homeland.
I spend long stretches at a cabin on Clear Lake...muck about in the gold fields where I check the pulse of the planet...even spend time in the city, on occasion. You don't wanna know about my 2 years in Boulder Creek.
Glad I made you laugh....cheers!

I wonder how he has been holding up? Last I checked, he hadn't posted a column at espn for a month. Wat gives?

Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004

Dr. Hunter S. Thompson sounds off on the fun-hogs in the passing lane

By DR. HUNTER S. THOMPSON


Armageddon came early for George Bush this year, and he was not ready for it. His long-awaited showdowns with my man John Kerry turned into a series of horrible embarrassments that cracked his nerve and demoralized his closest campaign advisers. They knew he would never recover, no matter how many votes they could steal for him in Florida, where the presidential debates were closely watched and widely celebrated by millions of Kerry supporters who suddenly had reason to feel like winners.
Kerry came into October as a five-point underdog with almost no chance of winning three out of three rigged confrontations with a treacherous little freak like George Bush. But the debates are over now, and the victor was clearly John Kerry every time. He steamrollered Bush and left him for roadkill.

Did you see Bush on TV, trying to debate? Jesus, he talked like a donkey with no brains at all. The tide turned early, in Coral Gables, when Bush went belly up less than halfway through his first bout with Kerry, who hammered poor George into jelly. It was pitiful. . . . I almost felt sorry for him, until I heard someone call him "Mister President," and then I felt ashamed.

Karl Rove, the president's political wizard, felt even worse. There is angst in the heart of Texas today, and panic in the bowels of the White House. Rove has a nasty little problem, and its name is George Bush. The president failed miserably from the instant he got onstage with John Kerry. He looked weak and dumb. Kerry beat him like a gong in Coral Gables, then again in St. Louis and Tempe -- and that is Rove's problem: His candidate is a weak-minded frat boy who cracks under pressure in front of 60 million voters.



http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6562575?&rnd=1098394261180&has-player=true

Still seems a bit understated, but given the white-knuckle year it has been I think we can cut him some slack. Hope he is in the best of health.

but you gotta love the guy, he's still thrashing.

Reading DU all day in between moments of actually working, and just trying to stay calm about it. I believe Kerry will win, but I also believe that no matter what happens, it will be contested. I just want it to be done so we can all start working on whatever needs to happen legally/protest-wise.... :evilgrin:

A huge bundle of nerves...not only the election coming up, but I'm also a Red Sox fan.:crazy:...I'll have no nails left by next wednesday morning.

I realize that no mater what the "result" will be election night, we won't know the "verdict" for weeks.

With all this issues of rampant voter fraud at the polls, machine errors, votes that weren't counted, voters not allowed to vote, more "punchcard" issues in poor voting districts, uncounted "provisionary ballots" because people didn't vote in the correct precinct, etc, no matter what the result, we'll still have a way to go till the outcome is known :(

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Need to keep out eye on the prize! Watch this, share this, bump this, kick this:

http://www.clowntech.com/win04/vote.htm

I seriously NEED to get away from the computer and the TV.

All I have done for a week is rush through daily tasks in a fog with nothing else in mind but getting back to the blogs and political crap.

This just is NOT healthy!

stops the ulcer forming, so I can get out the vote.

I'm volunteering this weekend so that I feel like I'm doing something tangible. Otherwise, I'd go nuts.

Actually, I'm feeling pretty good, but it is hard to not get shaken by the stakes of this election.

My mind just can't seem to reconcile Bushco's utter failure at everything with their seeming popularity. It's like trying to accept two competing realities at once. Sometimes i feel like I'm going to explode. I hope I'll be able to put it behind me by Nov. 3, regardless of the outcome.

I just got off the phone with my older sister, with whom I've never talked politics but suspected she might be a Democrat (she lives in MA). I hesitantly brought up the subject of the election and she began trashing Kerry and praising Chimpy. I thought I was going to pass out. As calmly as I could, I mentioned a couple of the millions of reasons not to vote for the Chimp, but zombie-like she rattled off, "yes, but we shouldn't switch in the middle of a war. . . Kerry's too much of a flip-flopper . . .you're paying too much attention to the liberal media. . ." etc. etc. I love her and didn't want to get into a shouting match so I cut off the call.

This has been happening a lot lately -- if I find out someone is supporting Chimpy, I go ballistic. I have no perspective. Aaarrrrggghhh!!!

I'm constantly in these forums and others, probably at this point to my own detriment. I should be working!

I am realizing that my personal lack of energy, not quite depression, has really only been over the last 2 years and I'm hoping for it to start to lift next week. I did feel euphoria after watching the first debate.

The hard part now is knowing that we in Washington state are in the Kerry column and so many states keep swaying daily. It almost seems like complete random chance which way the wind will blow on election day, and I'd like to see Kerry get 53% or more to prove some what of a 'mandate' to the nation and get beyond partisan bickering. I fear laywers and the SCOTUS will be involved if it is close. I really don't want more days or weeks of this gut-wrenching feeling!

in "It Can't Happen Here" when he says he can't make plans for himself and his family. I seriously need to be looking for a job but can't get motivated. Feel like my legs are in a cramp - and when you have a hundred legs that can get pretty painful! I don't have any trouble studying for my paralegal and tax classes (nothing like a few Sched D's and depreciation worksheets to get my brain all in a twist). My husband has already voted but I'll wait for 11/2. Just wish I lived in a swing state this time.

..that they are giving time to them.

Will come home on election day to be with me, school board race seems to be neck and neck. He was supposed to fly until the 4th but has decided to take vacation days for the election. I'm glad he's leaving, wants to much attention and I'm only focused on election, Kerry's not mine. I already blew my non-partisan status, oh well.

I'm sure Minnesota is going to go Kerry--after all, we went for Mondale in 84, but it's been nerve wracking watching the daily polls go up and down. Not to mention the fact we have a repuke governor and Sec. of state who are highly motivated to see Boosh "win."

The way this has most affected me personally is I have lost my sense of humor about this election. I had to tell friends to stop sending me stupid jokes about Kerry or Clinton because I am concerned someone on their email distribution list would be tempted to vote Boosh because of some stupid joke. Irrational, but that just shows how bad this has affected me. I'm finding it almost impossible to stay centered because of my own anxiety plus that of those around me.

I'll be glad when this is over. I'm focusing on finishing up halloween costumes for my grandkids and am staying away from TV news and the polls. I'm doing my best to promote Kerry to other people but have a hair-trigger temper when it comes to Boosh supporters right now.

there's still plenty of phonebanking, door knocking, poll watching, neighbor converting etc etc to be done. The busier you are, the more confident you'll become. We're doing a great job, and we need to push even harder this week!

Not until Jan 21. Hell, I won't relax until President Kerry is safely ensconced in the Oval Office and chimpyboy is frog-marching his way to The Hague.

I am seriously eating my kishkas out. This election's turned me into a split personality -- lurching between moments of optimism ("Kerry in a landslide, these bastards are goin' doowwwwwwn!!!!!") and paranoid cynicism ("Bush'll never give up power, the pugs'll bomb the twin cities and declare martial law and shoot or arrest Kerry for sedition and nuke Iran!!!").

And I know I'm not the only one. It's damn tiring, ain't it?

Sigh. Where have you gone, Joe Dimaggio?

He will win in a landslide.

To relieve my tension I'll be participating in orgies all week! :P

Quick and easy stuff to do to help for your friends who don't have much time or don't want to get involved in the whole campaign thing. Plus good links and humor/videos

www.helpkerrywin.com

I started to fast from TV and print news periodically, just so I don't drive myself mad by monitoring the polls and the like.

But I think what really has helped is firming up my volunteer plans for the days leading up to the election. The more that we volunteer, the more likely it is that we'll win all those important races and the most important one of all!

Besides rooting along with my buddy who is a Kerry person AND a Red Sox fan, the first thing I've been doing every morning is looking at the electoral map and the tracking polls.

I need some Tums. I'm bouncing off the walls here, and CA is a safely Blue state!

:scared: :bounce:

I have a playwriting class tonight and I can't concentrate on what I'm suppose to be writing 'cause I keep coming here and checking to see what's new. God, I hate this! I'm gonna flunk this class! I have writer's block and it's driving me nuts. Get this damn election over--

Gonna be a rough week...