Feeds:early Wednesday morning, Sixth week
"Melts in your mouth, not in your hand, as long as you're not a dumbass." -'Tricky', 10/27/2004
This is the outcome post.
I was listening to Great Big Sea to console myself, but the next song up is their cover of "The End of the World As We Know It". CNN lists incomplete results for New Mexico, Iowa, and Ohio, and Bush with a lead of only two electoral votes. A closer examination shows, however, that Bush has the majority in Ohio and one of the others, and the most votes, though not the majority, in the other. Those twenty Ohio votes mean Bush gets four more years. Maybe. He could be kicked out of office sometime in there, or, (heaven forbid) rig a way to remain in power. This problem is made worse by the fact that the Republicans very much have a majority in Congress. This is not inherently bad, but it's nice to have those two branches controlled by different parties. I personally would prefer a Democratic president with a Republican Congress. Half-right, unfortunately, still means all-wrong in this case.
Obama won, thankfully, but that wasn't in question. Daschle, however, whom I had also thought of as a good bet, lost by a slim margin to John Thune. Looking at the exit polls last night, the rural and small town votes went to.... guess who? That's right, Daschle, the Democrat. Why? Because he does -excuse me, did- a very fine job of supporting their interests in Congress. It was the insulated people in the cities who voted along "moral" lines to pick Thune. Bad. Go. Thune is a slimeball. He outright refused to speak against the out-of-state Republican groups who have been smearing Daschle for a year and a half now. His idea of moral on many issues is dubious, and I'm talking from a conservative standpoint here. But, you know, he's against abortion. And in South Dakota, that's what counts.
There are other freaking issues, people! GAAH!
Enough about that, if I can. There is also good news in the air (and your drinking water!). Remember that time I applied to be a Scav Hunt Judge? Well, later that night, after I had collapsed (OK, jumped/climbed, my bed is at chest-level) into bed, just before I fell asleep, Courtney and Christian came with cake-pudding and told me the good news. I was, however, forbidden to tell until the bad news had also been relayed to those who would receive it. The full list of new judges consists of Colin 'Bitch' McFaul, Sara from the FIST, Matt Fink (the name everyone recognises but no one can place), Nick Poulos, and myself. Two FIST, two Shoreland, one wildcard. Oh, and your mom, but she's a "special" judge. And by special, I mean, uh, 'your mom'.
A few days ago, I was told I could spread the news like a VD. Since I had gotten the news from a girl and subsequently told many other girls, it seems appropriate. And now, I'm infecting you all, you poor, doomed suckers.
The first person Poulos infected was apparantly Katie Callowright. Whoops.
We'll see who pulls off a better reign of terror: Bush or me.
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