Well, here it is. The culmination of a long long loooonnnnggg election season. Mom and I were talking about how 14 months ago Mom had started showing up at the Howard Dean Meetups, and I started exactly one year ago.
Did I mention it's been a LLLOOONNNGGG year?
Well, it's all been for this day. I couldn't sleep much last night. It felt like the night before Christmas, except this time I wouldn't be sure whether or not Santa would be revoking the Christmas Presents. I know that's a lame metaphor, but pre-Christmas jitters is exactly how it feels.
Fortunately I've got a massive amount of work to do today and tomorrow, so I'll have something to distract me. Otherwise I would be glued to the television all day, rotting out my eyeballs. Like everyone else in the country, I hope it becomes a straightforward, decisive outcome so we don't have to wait until December to find out who will be President. I'm hopeful.
We'll see.
I've been drafting in my head lots of journal entries (and letters to the Editor) about the importance of looking toward the future, healing the rifts that exist in this nation. (Of course, if the Republicans get big gains forget about all that because they like to create social rifts in order to divide and conquer.)
Okay, I'm going to go back to praying now.
Posted by Murray Todd Williams at November 2, 2004 05:08 AM