voting day in a small town (Photo credit: Muffet)
It has been a long time coming, 18 months to be exact. 18 months, about 77.5 weeks and approximately 542.5 days AND 13,020 hours!!!! That’s how long we’ve been listening to ads on the radio, reading columns in the newspaper, watching tv commercials, accosted by pamphlet-bearing party workers on the sidewalks, harassed by repeated robo calls, invited to rallies and fund-raisers, bombarded by daily emails from political organizations, and lastly not to mention the postcards, newsletters and solicitation fund-raising letters – ALL in the name of democracy, all in the pursuit of the most powerful office in the country. Oh yeah, I was only referring to the presidential campaign you can quadruple the intensity when you factor in the local representatives, state senators, sheriffs and on infinitum.
And tonight it will FINALLY be over – or will it? Ohhhh, I think the results of this year’s election will be immediately called into question! Accusations of voter fraud are just waiting behind the curtain, recounts ordered and then further analyzed. Absentee ballots scrutinized and possibly discarded; Remember the hanging chads in Florida! This year a secondary campaign was waged, to disenfranchise thousands of voters and prevent them from exercising their constitutional right. In New Jersey, a state crippled by Hurricane Sandy, throwing the means to conduct proper voting in to chaos and confusion has instituted (can you believe this?) voting by fax! Where states like Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Georgia passed highly restrictive voter ID laws, New Jersey went all out in trying to encourage voter participation where their residents lacking heat, electricity and water are understandably disheartened and dissuaded from making the effort to get out and vote. This puts another nuance on the state’s unofficial slogan “Jersey Strong”.
Personally, I will be beyond thrilled to have it over. I hope, I pray my man wins because I don’t like the person I’ve become when the other guy is on TV. The defaming, the libel, the lies, the slander, it has got to STOP. Fact-checkers be damned? Are you kidding me? I’m living in a world where the word Christian has taken on a new meaning and certainly not one that I care for or can espouse. Let it be over please!
The polls close in my state at 9:00 – I hope everyone gets to vote. I waited about an hour and a half this morning – they said the scanners weren’t working. I really liked the old voting machines and wish they would bring them back. If you haven’t voted yet – PLEASE DO SO NOW!
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And thus began the 2014 mid-terms and the 2016 Presidential election.
Hey, there’s an entire industry full of professional, political, douches whose way of life now depends on never ending election cycles.
Thank you for your comment and stopping by my blog today. Of course in America we would have an industry that does not produce a product. By the way, Bain Capital made nothing (but money).