Well, I can’t sleep, I don’t know about you. I’ve been up staring at Nate Silver’s stuff on FiveThirtyEight, listening to Chris, Keith, Rachel (anyone notice how pessimistic Rachel has become? One might almost think that she’s a closet McCain fan). I mus say I’m not very encouraged by Rachel these days…I hope she’s just being pessimistic in an effort to get out the vote. I’ve gotten to know all of my sites (HuffPo, DailyKos, FiveThirtyEight, RCP, BO.com, Politico, The NYT, FirstRead, LateNightPizzas (what’s THAT?) pretty well over this campaign. I’m still struck by the same question, as I am every time I contemplate this election. Why the F$$$ would ANYONE vote for that Buffoon and his Barbie Doll? Lately, Rachel has described him as “eerily calm and happy”, as if he KNOWS the fix is in. I’m not spewing sour grapes when I say that with all of the predictions and forecasts, I can see NO reasonable way for McCain to win this thing short of threading the needle so perfectly that it would have to be engineered. As I type this, Johnny McPTSD is doing his last rally tonite (Midnight in Arizona), and Caribou Barbie is holding one as well. Barack is going home. Tomorrow, the Putz and Ditz team will be going all over the country again.
I’m worried about voter turnout, I’m worried about irregularities that will prevent voters who want to vote from voting, their votes from being counted, and all other voter suppression techniques. I’m worried about the rethug GOTV effort, which Rachel hinted tonight was RNC based (NOT McCain Campating based…Sorry Nate, but those “empty” McCain headquarters and field offices may be a PLOY to lull the dems into a false sense of security….and I’ll bet BO knows it. Rachel is talking about a GOTV effort by the rethugs in the RNC that will DWARF the Obama effort….I’m concerned about that. Voter turnout, so imortant in this election, also worries me. Will we perform as we should? I rather dread going to vote and standing in line, mostly because I want to get to the Obama Headquarters and go canvassing. I would rather not be late for that effort, but I fully realize that my most important effort today is to VOTE, VOTE, VOTE. And I will, no matter HOW long it takes to stand in line at my precinct.
Tonight, I’ll be glued to the television set watching Virginia, Indiana, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio and Pennsylvania. I’ll be checking the numbers, doing the math, watching Nate’s site and hanging out with my Widgets. When the race is called, I’ll post it here, more for posterity than anything else, as I’m sure all of you PizzaFolk will be busy dealing with the results in your own way. I do wonder what will happen if McPTSD wins. Will it be close enough to warrant an investigation? Will the dems even have the stomach for that? It will take an amazing set of cooincdences (or, perhaps, a “Series of Unfortunate Events”) for this joker and his bimbo to actually win, but Rachel is hammering us with “It’s not even close to in the bag for either of them”
I have to stop right here, and offer profound condolences to the Obama family on the passing of Toot, Barack’s beloved grandmother. She was the cornerstone of his family, and, in a profound manner, was responsible for all that Barack has become. We honor her memory at LNP, and we hope that Barack finds comfort in the fact that her mail-in vote, certified on October 27th, WILL count in the election.
There’s an ugly story out there about the California Republican Committee having filed suit in federal court today claiming impropriety in Barak’s use of the campaign plane to fly to Hawaii to see his grandm other. What nonsense. Do they really expect a presidential candidate at this stage of the race to fly on a commercial jet, with all of the security and privacy that requires? Don’t forget, he took a small press corps, Secret Service people, and all manner of paraphenalia with him. Gimmie a break.
Is it me or is Brad Blakeman one of the lowest forms of life on the planet. He just shouldn’t be allowed on TV after some of those remarks.
Note that here in Northern Michgan, the Rev. Wright ad has been running nonstop, about every 10 minutes, all night. How disgusting can they get? I had a long talk with someone from Germany today, whom I met while phone banking at the Obama Headquarters. She expressed admiration for BO, and admiration for the US for going so far with him. She made it known in NO uncertian terms that the world, overwhelmingly for Barack, is watching the US closely in this election, and in her estimation, that our national prestige, and the world view of the USA depends HEAVILY on our electing Barack. She found it very hard, as do MANY of her compatriots, to understand how we could even CONSIDER electing McPTSD and his bimbo. I told her that, if we don’t elect Barack, I would be ashamed to have anyone find out I am an American citizen. I certianly won’t be associated with the dullards and wackos that would have elected that crap.
Well, on to getting ready for the election. I sure hope I’m back later to announce some happy news.
