It goes without saying that it would have been very poor form for the Americans to bother us will two years of campaigning without actually holding an election. As such, in the spirit of representative government, the United States is presently voting for their next President.
This will also help clear out the dead wood so that everyone can take a few week off before firing up the Electoral Particle Collider again for the mid-term elections in 2010. I swear to Jeebus that Mitt Romney has already bought an RV and is living in New Hampshire.
For one, I cannot complain since I am the most desperate possible 
junkie for this kind of thing. I bought snacks for tonight – special event snacks. I took the day off from work tomorrow so that I can stay parked on the couch until the guy who used to do the weather on the Golf Channel gets his say at 4am.
I went out and bought special election pants (make your own joke about words that sound like ‘election’). I won’t go into many details, but let’s just say I won’t need to take a lot of breaks.
As I type this, in my office, I am watching streaming video of MSNBC where three people I’ve never heard of have are saying things that I already know.
…reminds me of the last time that I went to church…
But since they are nice enough to hold elections I should be nice enough to commemorate the event.
As such, my special pants and I will be posting periodically throughout the evening as the results come in. But I am not live blogging because that whole term makes me want to puke.
If I were even a little more intelligent or a little less lazy, I might have given this whole deal some more notice, but I’m sure that 3 hours is enough to align the entire instawebs to my needs.
Don’t grin, Jimmy – you ain’t exactly Warren Buffett either.
To excite my 2.3 readers, here is a preview.
“FOX News is reporting that Massachusetts has gone overwhelmingly for Obama. Remember Chappaquiddick!!!”
…you get the idea…
I would hope that you would have something better to do (but you don’t) so fire up your RSS antenna and get ready for an inexorable sense of disappointment.
Remember Chappaquiddick!!!
2 Comments
4 November , 2008 at 11:07 pm
As soon as Obama won Ohio at 9:30, I knew he had it officially in the bag.
5 November , 2008 at 12:49 am
That seems to be the consensus. I was actually pretty sold on the outcome when neither Indiana nor Virginia were called right away. When Pennsylvania hit, it was a done deal.