Sorry for the hiatus…I’m just now recovering from 168 straight hours of election coverage. I kept meaning to turn Election ‘08 coverage off, but then Wolf would just draw me back in with exit polling data of the advanced degreed car salesmen in Vigo County and I’d be hooked all over again. I have a couple of observations from election night coverage:
I think I have a Barangover. It doesn’t involve alcohol at all…just an overindulgence of hope.
What exactly do you have to do to lose an election in Alaska? A convicted felon awaiting sentencing is going to the U.S. Senate from Alaska?!? I guess being a “reformer” in Alaska just means you stick to misdemeanors. [Remember back when John McCain explained that Sarah Palin had been “vetted by the people of Alaska”??! Just sayin’] I think we know what the impending expulsion of Ted Stevens means in the context of gubernatorial replacement appointments…Hellooooooo Senator Levi Johnston (Senator Baby Daddy?)
The first state called on election night was a tad anti-climatic…Vermont? That wasn’t even worth the drum roll. “The Vermont polls have been closed for 11 seconds and we are now ready to call that state for Obama.” (I guess it does not take very long to count the one hundred and eleven votes in the state of Vermont – should they really get TWO whole senators?).
In his segue to Senate election coverage, Anderson Cooper just said “let’s go to Kentucky” – probably the very last time you are ever going to hear a gay man utter those words.
The polls are going to close in Tennessee in a little less than 11 hours…so we can now call the state for John McCain. Seriously…Tennessee did not get the memo re: Barack the Vote?!?? Virginia (!) - the seat of the confederacy - voted for Barack Obama and Tennessee went overwhelmingly McCain??? Al Gore – why do you even bother with a home state? Gore’s coattails must extend all the way to city council.
Now that the election is over - I don't think I need my internet any more. I should have LOADS of time to blog from now on!
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You have to wonder just how bad the other guy was that he lost to a convicted felon! And personally I think we'll be seeing Senator Palin here soon!
Hey Maeve, do the rules for use of blogger.com allow for the outing of a national news figure? And no, crying in New Orleans doesn't count as AC outing himself - I cry all the time and ... oh my God...i just realized...
The weird thing is that his middle names are Curtis David, so he is really ACDC...
Only negative thing about being in Chicago during all of this - it's now being reported that the USA having Prez Obama may help Chicago's chances of getting the 2016 Olympics (also known as the Mayor Richard M. Daley orchestrating his capping achievement and monument to himself). I think I can speak for Chicago when I say "Please pick Tokyo. Please pick Tokyo. Please pick Tokyo."
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