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[janradder]

Does anyone else feel sick to their stomachs thinking about tomorrow? I do.

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[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I just can't shake that feeling of doom from the last two elections.

[st-writes.livejournal.com]

I'm alternating between crazy excitement and a calm dread. I'm rather perplexed by my own optimism -- maybe somebody has slipped me something.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I'm excited when I think about voting tomorrow but then as soon as I think about waiting for the results, I feel sick again.

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

Nope. Just stoked.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I wish I could share that optimism. What's your sense of Florida? Do you think Obama can win it?

[vee-ecks.livejournal.com]

Probably not, but it could go either way, and I can't even believe I'm saying *that.*

[deanarae.livejournal.com]

GOD YES!!!!

[janradder.livejournal.com]

We have unseasonably warm temps today (high of 75 someone said) and Arie has the day off from school so we spent the afternoon outside in the glorious fall sunshine which took my mind off the election for a while. Now, of course, I'm right back to thinking about it again. Ugh.

[rsheslin.livejournal.com]

Only about Prop 8 (the denial of same-sex marriage) here in CA. Otherwise, Obama's apparently got it in the bag.

If it helps you feel better, check out http://FiveThirtyEight.com, which has developed an excellent reputation for accuracy.

Rock on!

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I've seen that one and I regularly check pollster.com and everyone is pointing to an Obama victory but I still feel sick about the election. My mother has felt the same way and thinks that it may have to do with us being Red Sox fans (which is quite possible). I'll be relieved when the whole thing is done with tomorrow (and I hope that Prop 8 fails).

[rsheslin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mailed my ballot it last week but need to drop off my husband's at the polling place tomorrow. Other than that, I'm in "wake me on Wednesday" mode. Thank goodness I don't watch television.

[pierogi-queen.livejournal.com]

I voted this morning. When I got to the polling place (Church of the Epiphany - no more voting at Darcey School) at 7:30 AM, the parking lot was full, and the line stretched down the sidewalk and around behind the church. I've voted in Cheshire in just about every federal, state and local election since 1972 and I have NEVER seen a line like that. In Hartford, there were 350 people in line at one of the polling places at 6 AM. All over the state, calls were coming in to WTIC this morning telling about the crowds who had turned out to vote. Even though Connecticut is pretty much "in the tank" for Obama, it's incredible and wonderful to see so many people coming out to vote here. Even though my inner Red Sox Fan is fighting to get out, I am becoming more and more hopeful that well see a victorious Obama/Biden ticket this evening.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that Prop 8 in CA is defeated. Here in CT, we have a question on our ballot that asks if we should convene a Constitutional Convention to consider amendments to our Constitution. (This question has to come up every 20 years by law). The anti-gay crowd is pushing hard for a "yes" vote so they can try to get a citizen's initiative clause in our state constitution with the ultimate goal of overturning gay marriage and banning abortions here in CT.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Haddayr went right after the polls opened here (at 7) and didn't come back until over an hour later. I've been out grocery shopping with Éiden and everywhere I look I see people with stickers showing they voted. It does make me feel kind of hopeful.

I hope Prop 8 is defeated as well -- I can't imagine what it would be like to have gotten married and then have that marriage taken away by the government. That's truly horrifying.

[barthanderson.livejournal.com]

How fucked up is it that we know Obama has to beat McCain by X percent, because we fully expect the election to be tampered with?

Anyway...

The last time I voted for a presidential winner ('92), it only took 100 days before I realized it was a mistake. Don't Ask; Don't Tell. Caving on taxing the wealthy like Clinton promised. Then, 4 years later, torpedoing welfare. We thought we were getting a Trojan Horse housing a progressive, but out popped a goddamn Eisenhower Republican.

So. I'm voting for a Dem presidential candidate for the first time in 16 years, and I guess I feel ok. Not great. Not too anxious. Just confident that Americans will make McCain pay for Bush's sins.

As for Obama, I'll give him a shot because he sings the music I like to hear, better than anyone I've heard in my lifetime. But...

Let's talk in 4 years.

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I think at the very least, if Obama is elected he'll keep the Supreme Court from becoming a bastion of reactionary thought.

I am worried about McCain stealing the election but I'm also worried that racism and fear will make people vote against Obama (along with a healthy dose of stupidity) and I always worry that the polls are somehow wrong.