Is it just me, or does the Night Before the Election feel like Christmas Eve?
Pookey-muffins. I am going to bed NOW because I can’t take the suspense any longer. Who’s with me?
Wow. Okay, I don’t have that much room in my bed, so you’ll just have to bunk at home! But we’ll be together in spirit!
My brain has morphed into a shifting patchwork quilt of red and blue states. Tomorrow? If you pump my arm? My eyes will do that little cartoon-slot-machine thing (CHA-CHING! CHA-CHING! ONE RED STATE! ONE BLUE STATE! DAMN! TRY AGAIN!), all day long.
Dearies. You know we will need to be strong tomorrow, to handle all that heart-pounding, NO-THEY-DIH-INT! whiplash color commentary. What? CNN’s reporting that Nader won in Ohio? WTF?!? Wait, Fox is reporting that Tina Fey and Jon Stewart are ahead in Montana? Okay, I can get behind that! Wha—no?? MY HEAD! MY HEAD! ARGGH!!!
So sleep well, sleep strong, and ROCK THAT VOTE!
And cattle-prod any undecided souls in your neighborhood or family in the direction of the nearest polling booth.
And as always, play nice.
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Christmas Eve, indeed. I drove to Springfield, MO this weekend, and stood in line for over 5 hours to get into a high school stadium with 30,000 other Obama groupies. It made me feel like a 22 year old campaigning for Clinton… only I am even MORE excited, hopeful, and in need of a victory this time. As an Oklahoma voter, I cannot say that our state is going blue… but that does not mean I am not excited to have my ballot counted tomorrow.
Here’s to (hopefully) a victory for progress and hope. YES WE CAN!
This is the first time in, like, the four whole presidential elections that I have been excited and actually given a, well, crap about the outcome.
I’m going to bed early tonight and taking a nap tomorrow so I can stay up late to watch my candidate’s acceptance speech. Because that will rock.
I’m going to spend the day BAKING. I mean, before and after I vote.
Oh, dear God, I can’t WAIT for tomorrow!!!!! The kids are excited over will get to push the Obama button on the computer screen and everything! I am having a hard time not turning on CNN right NOW in preparation.
It does. It feels *exactly* like Christmas Eve, only I’m so anxious I’ve had to take double my medication.
My husband has ordered popcorn and we are not expecting to get to bed early, being Easterners. Hard to type with fingers all crossed for luck.
And wishing. Hard.
As a native (sort of) Montanan, I’m just dying over here about the notion of Fey and Stewart pulling ahead in Montana! Now if you said Ron Paul, I’d believe it. *grin*
Yes, you said it well. I just hope I am not all disappointed when I find out the truth about whichever Santa we get. Right now I have really high hopes and fell good about the day,but I know from experience Santa isn’t going to bring any ponies down the chimney.
We tap danced to rap music tonight. And then we did the McCain Slide and the Obama Shuffle … not really but I told the teacher to rename the steps we were learning in honor of Election Eve.
I’m gonna keep shakin’ my booty tomorrow as I tap on over to my polling place.
Fo schizzle.
I’m so anxious and excited tomorrow, I’m hoping that I’ll actually get to sleep tonight. I cannot wait to get my vote in first thing in the morning and I’m seriously hoping that everything is played fair and square.
Already voted, beeyotch! I hustled buns over there early this a.m. and got there just after the polls opened. It was already busy and rapidly getting busier. Now I’m at work, trying to master my smirk for tomorrow because I work with a few unpleasant gentlemen who strongly disagree with me and my chosen candidate – the guy who appears to be whuppin’ ass in the polls.
Inside, though, I’m a quivering shaking mass of anxiety, just waiting for the shenanigans and broohaha to start.
I’m on pins and needles myself. I just hope we KNOW before bed tonight that it’s Obama.
I just voted…not for the lesser of two evils but for someone in which I actually believe. Change is coming…I feel it.
I know, right? I keep hitting refresh on an exit poll site. REFRESH! REFRESH! REFRRREEESSSHHH!
It is a bit ridiculous, I must admit.
Now…THIS day can bring anyone out of a funk! The last election I knew was a crapshoot. But this one, I feel confident that the votes can only go one way…
Of course, I’m still thinking it will be a long time before anyone truly admits the victor! Nonetheless I’ve got my margarita mix and red, white, and blue stripey socks to celebrate!!!
BTW, Today my security code says
I’m one KU FU…
fo’ sheezy mah neezy!
My fingers and my toes are crossed. We early voted two weeks ago, so I canvassed this morning with a teenage dynamo through sun, wind, rain and snow (all in the space of one hour). Yes We Can!
omg, the mater is just cracking my schizz right up.
i’ve had cnn on all day. i’m paralyzed with anticipation and there’s nothing to know just yet. it has been a long, long day so far.
xomox
totally had a Christmas morning moment today when I woke up at five AM because I was SO EXCITED. Santa! All I want for Christmas is President Barack Obama!
And for spellcheck to know how to spell Barack Obama!
And for Tina Fey to come to my birthday parties!
Yay!!!! It’s been a beautiful day.
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