the Greater Nomadic Council

Liveblogging the Election?

Hmm.. maybe. I dunno. I doubt anyone's obsessively reloading this site, so I may just use to jot down my thoughts as it goes or not. I dunno. All times Central.

8:13pm:

So far, though, with almost 50% reporting in Florida, Bush has the lead. Only 5% in Ohio and Bush has a smaller lead there. If both states go to Bush, I'm going to sleep. If Bush and Kerry split them, it's gonna be a loooong night. I just hope these early Florida numbers are going to change, but it's starting to look like that's not going to happen.

8:23pm:

Oh, this is too nerve-wracking. I'm gonna go eat dinner for now.

8:53pm:

Dinner was good, now I'm about to eat some Nega Maluca, a Brazilian chocolate cake. It's good stuff. Also, it's odd that all three entries have been at something-something three.

9:16pm:

Kerry's closing the gap in Florida... a little. But with 80% of the precincts reporting will it be enough in the end?

9:41pm:

This just in. There will be a civil war that starts next year. I'm not sure what that says about the outcome of this election though.

10:04pm:

Well, I don't see any reason to expect Florida or Ohio to change hands at this point, so it looks like another four miserable years of Bush. Why anyone would vote for that man is beyond me. Is it ignorance? Stupidity? Gullibility? Whatever it is, I have little respect for their reasoning. Sorry. I try to be open-minded and fair, but the fact that Bush has been an awful president is simply a fact. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded. Kerry shows (showed?) all the signs of the ability to be, at the very least, a competent president—a substantial improvement over Bush. Does the American populace really have so little respect for honesty, intelligence, and basic competency?

Ah well... here's hoping that whoever is in office for the next four years can actually start to clean up the problems created in the last four. Many of the effects of bad decisions will begin to appear and it's going to be difficult to fix them at that point. I hope I'm wrong, but I fear I'm not.

10:18pm:

And yes, I realize it's not over and that this post is a bit more inflammatory than typical for me, but sometimes you just have to vent. Sane mallarme will return soon, I'm sure.

10:42pm:

Another thought—if it the race does go to Kerry all you Bush supporters feel free to vent on me.

11:00pm:

It started raining a few minutes ago while I was playing a game of chess (which I won). My eyes are tired. They're not used to staring at a computer screen for long time periods any more. I'm going to have a glass of wine and get ready for bed, hoping to have a pleasant surprise in the morning. It seems unlikely. Tomorrow I'm back to reading Chaucer, John Ashbery, Adrienne Rich, and cultural studies criticism. Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde," by the way, is wonderful. That in itself is unsurprising considering how rich all his work is, but this is the first long piece that we're reading this semester. Each book (of which there are five) is about the same length as any of his shorter poems like "House of Fame" or "Book of the Duchess." Ah poetry...

9:45am:

What? It's still not decided? It seems unlikely that the absentee and provisional ballots will come through for Kerry in Ohio. I've found that in most cases in life, regardless of the manifestation, when you're clinging to a slim hope it's only an illusion. Naturally we should wait until all the votes are counted yada-yada, but I'm just as convinced now as I was last night that Bush has won... legitimately this time. Now I may return to largely ignoring politics in favor of studying.