Well, that was kind of interesting. I gave up watching sometime past 11 PM my prediction during the day was that if Bush wins Florida, that’s the way the country was going to go. Ohio looked pretty much in the bag still does really but there may be some weird set of circumstances that I’m not aware of so I’ll sit back and wait for the pretender to admit defeat.
Bush got 51% of the vote, BTW. *Screech*; they’re trying to steal the election; we want our politicians elected, not selected; (so on a so forth).
Election night coverage sucked. I primarily switched between CBC, which didn’t seem to have good data feeds, and CNN, which was far to mean in handing out the information they did have. In particular, their withholding of results until the top of the hour was silly and superficial; their policy of not showing which way stands were trending (say, by using pink and baby blue) was retarded. Fox TV occasionally cut over to some guy on Fox News wearing _way_ too much makeup. Canadians have nothing to fear from Fox, let me tell you: I’m surprised they never cut away from the election coverage for Lacy Peterson updates.
Also: how many electoral votes does Iowa have? You’d never know from the CNN web site. But we do know that someone called ‘Van Auken’ has 159 votes. Way to go, Van my man. Big party this morning and the Auken Compound I’m sure.
Did anyone catch Ralph Nader’s speech? A pathetic petty patrician, the privileged prattling on about ‘the people’, power and politicians. Pah.
CBC Radio had very good coverage yesterday their commentators, as per usual, mostly swung left but they did have a number of right folk and neither side was of the raving lunatic kind and many had very interesting things to say. One thing that struck me as wrong was the lefties suggesting that high voter turn-out favors the Democrats. Buzz: wrong. The Democrats would do well to drop the notion that if they could get the couch-sitters off their asses, they would sweep to victory and glory. If they poll as Democrats, it’s probably because they’re just too lazy to say the 4 syllable option. Perhaps the Dems should concentrate on getting the people who do show up to the polls voting for their guy.
The blogs are quiet now no surprise, it’s quarter past five in the morning. My political reading is almost entirely libertarian-right but the tech blogs I follow are inevitably left, usually of the moonbat ‘that Moore fellow really speaks the truth’-type variety. It’ll be fun to see what everyone is say this morning.
Our Rating: Ranting and Roaring gives this election 3 1/2 stars out of a possible 5.
