What are you going to do if McCain wins?

i watch the polls via 538 and it currently indicates a pretty wide margin. I personally think 538 is being conservative as well.

Yes, god knows I've lost faith, but this is a pretty singular situation (insert A Chorus Line parodies here).

Shit is so fucked that even the most elaborately constructed edifices of people's potentially limitless capacity for self-delusion are falling apart.

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OK, the gap has widened from the last time I looked.

Perhaps this is due to Palin's hilarious interview with Katie Couric. Oh, if it could only be so easy.

I'll do the same thing I did when Bush won re-election in '04. Get drunk on election night, spew some hateful bile the next day, disengage from politics for a month or so, then resolve to get more involved with local politics/elections.

Around the time I resolve to take a more positive stance is when my relentless mockery of friends who claimed they would move to Canada will begin.

Dude, my friend who swore up and down he'd move to Canada if Bush won in 2004 didn't move to Canada, but did get depressed, gain a lot of weight, and drop out of school for a year. He was seriously that upset by it. No laughing matter.

I think if you're already voting on issues that clearly won't affect your economic situation, it's probably not because you're too uneducated and would just change your mind if you knew more about economics or sociology or whatever, it's probably because you have different priorities. Ones I strongly disagree with, but that still aren't the result of stupidity or ignorance.

I would replace " it's probably" with "it may" in this excerpt; at its heart, this is the part of diversity that everyone struggles with.

After 2004, I came home drunk and kicked over my Kerry/Edwards yard sign that was already falling apart due to the rain.

My birthday was the next day, and it was one of the most sullen birthdays I had had.

I'd drive through my neighborhood and see those Bush/Cheney signs, and wonder if somehow the only person who doesn't think he's crazy is usually the crazy one.

I bought a Playstation 2 soon thereafter and played Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas every night from ten until two for the next month when my fiancee arrived.

i was in fairbanks alaska working on tony knowles's failed campaign and i got tanked in the flophouse where i was staying, walked in on my roommate getting head, and passed out with my head resting on the toilet waiting to throw up

when i woke up at 4 am there was some dude shaving his head in the bathroom

I, personally, am voting for McCain because I am racist & hate azns

figures

Careful, crut... you know McCain lived in Asia for a while? Even longer than Obama.

We may be dealing with an Indochinchurian Candidate situation here..

I'm not gonna lie, in the 2004 election I was seriously bummed and fucking depressed as hell, I went on like a crazy pizza binge, gained 20 pounds, and I think I was in my slump for a good 6 months.

And while I will be pretty bummed AGAIN if McCain wins, I don't think I am 100% convinced that having one guy over the other is going to drastically change my life (aside from crazy war mongering or starting a Christian taliban state or something super extreme). Maybe I just am rationalizing it so I don't get so bummed out this go around.

There are freaks out there who think that if Obama wins the world is going to go to pot, and right now they, too, are planning their escape. I used to think the other side was just retarded, but recently found out an EXTREMELY talented, intelligent co-worker of mine is a far right wing conservative (he's also gay and a big Sarah Palin fan, which boggles my mind). I can't even begin to try and understand why he believes what he believes; why he supports a candidate who wants to pray his gayness away. I guess it's all just some ideology; that the hardcore righties think anyone who tries hard and works hard enough will rise to the top, and those at the bottom just are human loser bottom feeders.

Sarah Palin is kinda Judy Garland'esque?

I guess it's all just some ideology

daddy issues

Also in looking at electoral maps from the previous 100 years of elections, I really think one of the only things dividing our country is Roe v. Wade.

he's also gay and a big Sarah Palin fan

Maybe he can be her friend.

crazy war mongering or starting a Christian taliban state or something super extreme

i can see a or c happening...b maybe not so much.

recently found out an EXTREMELY talented, intelligent co-worker of mine is a far right wing conservative (he's also gay and a big Sarah Palin fan, which boggles my mind)

people are completely fucking insane. dunno what else to say.

i mean, isn't that something like being a beekeeper who goes into anaphylactic shock everyday?

The day after, back in 04, I organized a large and hilariously pointless anti-Bush demo on my campus. Then I threw everything I had into the poetry stuff I was doing, lost 15 pounds, and tanked my next two semesters.

Also started notes for a novel about "disillusioned activists fucking, drinking and dreaming of change in the wake of a second Bush victory" because lol college freshman

I think instead of moving to the Netherlands if McCain wins, I'll restart the old secession movement here. http://www.mvmagazine.com/2007/september-october/images/free_marthas_vineyard.gif

i know, i'm having fantasies involving transporting the conceit of that sci-fi novel about the pacific northwest seceding and trying to apply it to the seat of original guard freedom that was/is could be philly in present-day.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_60_million_people_youd

In the 2000 election I was 20 and barely paid any attention to the election and voted for Nader

:(

This mess we're in is YOUR fault!

In 2000 I was able to vote for Nader b/c I was living in one of those states where you could do that shit while being assured of the fact that in any event the dems had the territory locked. Since then, everything seems to have gone horribly wrong, both in the larger realm of the world as well as personally.

There is no moral to this story, except that, for whatever reasons, I am not freaked out about the November results. I'm very possibly horribly naive, but I think the game is up for the opposition?

SO NOT GOING TO WIN

It's a good thing I passed on that great opportunity to invest in the Iranian nuclear power program

There are freaks out there who think that if Obama wins the world is going to go to pot, and right now they, too, are planning their escape.

That's good, right?

not for you aussies :D

In 2000 I was able to vote for Nader b/c I was living in one of those states where you could do that shit while being assured of the fact that in any event the dems had the territory locked. Since then, everything

similar story except where I live there's never hope of the state going any way but GOP.

popular vote does matter in case it comes down 269-269 tho - not legally obv but it certainly would make things easier

This bailout crises + the very real possibility of 269-269 scares teh ever lovin' shit outta me.

I keep looking at 269-269 and thinking "oh please please please please please please please" and then I realize I have no idea if I am fervently wishing for some votes to transfer to Obama or if I really want to see the country in a full-on deadlock.

Well, yeah, oncoming locomotives never stopped me from placing pennies on the railroad tracks, but I'd like to think that I'm looking further ahead into the future these days than what will happen when those pieces of copper come flying back toward my face.

keep looking at 269-269 and thinking "oh please please please please please please please" and then I realize I have no idea if I am fervently wishing for some votes to transfer to Obama or if I really want to see the country in a full-on deadlock.

Let's ask this man for advice.

http://penkaushistory.com/493px-President_Rutherford_Hayes_1870_-_1880.jpg

I mean, the same House that just agreed to settle this bailout bill and then bailed out on the bailout bill they agreed to settle would be the ones getting to pick the next president.

Or Obama and McCain could put aside their differences and share the Oval Office before a live studio audience.

this fucking imbecile needs to retire

tell him. we already know it