Posted on 10/15/2004 4:25:00 PM PDT by pctech
I was listening to Fox News during Brit Hume's show (he wasn't there for some reason). They were talking about how there could be a 25% chance the election won't be decided for almost a month or even longer if the election is a real tight one and the lawsuits start flying because of "alleged" voter fraud.
All I got to say is that I don't want to be up night again like I was during the last presidential election. I assume you folks don't want to be either. I now find myself wanting to avoid the news just so I won't continually hear this kind of talk but yet it's something that is a real threat.
Besides a stiff bourbon (I don't drink alc-e-holic beverages) what are we going to do this year to make it through what could possibly be the worst election night in national history?
Brit hardly ever hosts on Friday nights. I think it's his well-deserved evening off.
I think we are in for one heck of a sleepless Nov 2. I'm terrified in more ways than one -- somehow our second was conceived during the Nov 2000 fiasco and well, we think our family is complete . . . .
What awaits us on election night is many more nights of awaiting!
The rats will challenge this election until the constitution is in shreds.
My gut tells me this election is not even close. But, we won't know for about three weeks, will we?!
I thought I heard that the state was going to appeal that decision. Is that happening?
You're not alone. I just hope this Cheney comment really hurts lUrch-- it sure as heck should.
I hope for all our sakes your right. I want to go to bed with a grateful heart knowing that Buhs will be our president for 4 more years.
Almost seems like a ratings utopia doesn't it? Think of all the paid consultants being paraded on all the shows........
Get the picture yet?
I already voted :), only I'm afraid it will be negated by the dead that vote in Philly
Interesting perspective
"Up all night?" That's all? Man, I was up for more than two weeks.
Me too. But, I didn't have Freepers to keep from going bonkers then.
As a resident of Tallahassee, remembering:
Trucks from all the networks filling up all the downtown streets.
Not being able to get my daughter into the front door of the library because of MSNBC's camera set-up.
Having to stop on my way home one afternoon to let the U-Haul trucks full of ballots pass.
Having my neighborhood full of cop cars, because one of my neighbors, Katherine Harris, was getting death threats.
So many more rotten memories. I still cringe every time I drive by the Florida Supreme Court Building.
Please, no more!
Brit ususally takes Friday off.
John Fund said that the lawsuits that the Dems are filing now in all of the "important" states to get Nader off the ballot will cause the ballots not to go out until the court decides whether he will be on or not. The worst part is, it will take at least a MONTH for the soldiers overseas (70%of which would vote for Bush) to get their ballot, fill them out, and get them back here. That is why the dems waited until now to file lawsuits - the military votes won't have a chance to get back in time by the NOV. 3rd deadline. Disenfranchising all of the overseas military, the other workers and their families.
I stayed up all night on Election Night 2000, too. Didn't get a wink of sleep, and had to go to work the next day. What a nightmare! I told my boss I'd work until I started to crash, which was around 1:00pm.
But I took the day after Election 2002 off, not wanting a repeat of 2000. And I'm doing the same again this year. But somehow I think we'll know the winner by midnight at the latest. At the very latest.
I know what's it like to cringe at the sight of a object. I do that everytime an ambulance drives by. Bad memories from my son's bad accident from 10 years ago when he broke his right forearm in 4 places.
My "gut feeling" is that the 'Rats are planning a thousand Broward counties.
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