I just read an interesting post on DU. It was urging people to go to the polls and not be lulled into a sense of calm by early polling results.
Evidently in 2002, the Dem candidates looked good early in the day, and we all know what happened and how the Republicans came on strong later in the day.
Of course, on DU, they were preaching against complacency, but I hope on FR, we can avoid "panic" posts like were going on yesterday when a poll (Fox) came in with bad numbers.
We don't need hysteria taking up bandwith!
The Dems vote early in the day because they have no jobs to go to.
I voted absentee (Georgia) by Federal Express to be sure my vote arrived before the Ice Age (Canada Post is very unreliable) and I'm up here in Canada hoping that everyone will take care of business down south.
Had an interesting conversation in the elevator at work the other day. A woman who heard I had voted for Bush said that I was the only Ex Pat she had talked to who was voting Bush. A couple of questions established that her American friends were draft dodgers. "Well, that explains it," I told her, "they moved here because they hate America. I moved here because I like Canada." She conceded she had not thought of it that way before and looked impressed.
It's odd that Canadians tell me all the time that Americans don't know anything about Canada (when I point out the difficulties of socialism) yet feel qualified 100% to tell me what is wrong with the USA -- where plenty of them have never been!
Terry Mc Awful, just said that Kerry is ahead in early voting in the battle ground states, and C-Span is admonishing people to accept the results.
This admonishment could have been issued long ago to Demonrats, but only now is peace and order called for?
That alone makes me nervous.
Liberals are such lunitics, fighting a unruly phantom conservative in their immaginations, who is going to take to the streets and over throw everyone's freedom, when in reality they should look in the mirror.