Tomorrow I plan on getting up extra early and hauling my ass around the corner to my polling place. In 2004 there was a pretty long line (my former neighbor, the late actor Jerry Orbach, was waiting in line with the rest of us) - but I suspect it will be mayhem tomorrow. Manhattan has one of the highest percentage of Democrats in the nation, and we are not about to let this historic election pass us by.
After work I will rush home and put on the television (and log onto the computer). I will remain in front of the television until Barack Obama is declared to be the next President of the United States of America.
This election is so important to me that I quit my part-time job today. My boss (I've known him for 10 years/worked with him for 5 years) insisted that I come in tomorrow night while he is out of the country. I explained to him last week that I am not available on Tuesday, but any other day would be fine. He got pissed and hung up on me - so I called him back and left him a message basically telling him to go fuck himself. I guess I'll need to take that extra money out of my budget - but oh well. He was a delusional freak who is in so much financial trouble that his interior design business won't be around much longer anyway. Case in point - I can't order office supplies, send a messenger, or send a FedEx (because he hasn't paid the bills) - but he has plans to purchase a $400,000 coffee table for his house. Yeah ... fucking nuts.
What are YOUR plans for Election Day? Have you voted already? Will you watch the election results? If so, will you do it at home, or at some kind of event? Tell us in the comments...
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Sorry about the job and boss and conflux of events....
But hey, Happy Election Day!!! We are taking the kids to a big election results party at Pretty Nurse's.... Her folks are huge civil rights activists from the way back.... Its going to be a big ole' party... I want the kids to be a part of it - after all this is a huge victory for their futures....
And... I am honored to be hanging out with a often NOT represented part of the African American community that is all about "No on 8" - so we are going to be celebrating the right of all peoples to love, live and be free...
I am super excited.... I have to work a long day with a hell commute, but what a night we have planned...
Kisses to you
Washington is all vote by mail now so we sent in our ballots on the 20th.
I ran off a bunch of stuff about the election for my 7th grader tomorrow. We have our own color in the map :-)
Dear Daughter and I will get home from our elementary tutoring gig about 1pm PST. We rarely eat dinner in front of the TV around here but election night has always been an exception. All three of us will have our laptops up and running (gawd, we are such geeks).
Eldest will be ducking into the bar at the restaurant where he works to check the TV reports and Gorilla Boy will have his TV tuned in to check whilst doing homework.
(good grief, is a $400,000 coffee table made of solid gold?)
A few months ago I decided that I wanted to work at the polls to help make everything run smoothly. So from 6:00am to at LEAST 8:30pm- I'll be in a local elementary school gymnasium.
I voted absentee last week.
No early voting for me--procrastination strikes again--so I'm getting up early to VOTE for Barack and for our fantastic senator Dick Durbin. (Just saw some slimeball TV ads by his scuzzy "opponent" today, claiming that Durbin "compared our troops to Nazis!" and is "too liberal for Illinois." FUCK YOU, LYING LOSER.) I wish someone was running against the spineless Rahm Emmanuel so that I could vote against him. Guess we can worry about that in the next election.
After that I have an 11AM appointment to try to get my passport (which I can't find) renewed--more procrastination--before I allegedly go to Mexico for a week on Sunday.
Then, tomorrow evening is the Obama rally in Grant Park. Fortunately I responded right away to the e-mail invitation, so I'm just waiting on my personalized e-mail invitation to arrive today. I cannot wait--I hope it will be a huge celebratory, cathartic, historic event. The 2000 and 2004 "elections" are among the darkest, most depressing days of my life. Perhaps tomorrow will exorcise some of that . . . but I'm not putting anything past the huge numbers of racist (hi Dad!), homophobic, ignorant dumbshits in this country and the Republican rat fuckers who manipulate them.
My uncle died Sunday night & the wake is tomorrow, so I'll be hitting up the polling place at the butt crack of dawn with all the blue hairs in the neighborhood. From there, I'll be sneaking in & out of the viewing room to get updates. Whatever the outcome, I'll be toasting Sen. Obama's hope for change & Uncle Leo's memory.
:-D
i'm voting tomorrow for the green party candidate, who's a bit of a crazy woman, but we need another option in this country besides the dems and reps. i don't care what you say, the electoral college system in this country sucks and basically my vote doesn't count because obama is going to sweep my state (he's running 30 points ahead of mcnuts in the polls). and the EC system allowed bush to steal the election in 2000.
i'll be happy with an obama presidency, but we need a green party in this country.
Thanks anonymous! That worked out so well in 2000. We really appreciate your making that powerful statement.
Thanks.
I will be getting up early, and taking my parents, ages 80 and 73, to make sure they vote, as will I. [Early voting in Delaware means getting there at 7AM] Then I will be working, although I am sure I will be spending much of the day online checking out what is going on, and getting home to watch the results unfold.
I am certainly hoping it will be a good night for Obama and a great night for gays in California.
Hey buddy, I'm so sorry about your job. Maybe something can be worked out. Now is not the time to not be working. I appauld your stance.
I'm planning to be at the polls place at 7am in the morning. I'm making dinner for B tomorrow night and we are going to watch the election results as they come in. I have a bottle of champagne for the Obama victory. I can't wait to pop the cork.
OBAMA/BIDEN 2008
NO ON PROP 8
I see that picture of MikeInAlabama, read about him popping the cork, and can't leave my desk for several minutes. Dude, go easy on us, OK?
LOL
well, marker, if you people had bothered to riot back in 2000, maybe we wouldn't have had 8 yrs of the shrub. so instead of bitching at me, you should try to get rid of the electoral college system.
I'm voting Working Families party across the board - through electoral fusion, WFP endorses all of the democratic candidates in my district, and they are more leftist than the Democratic party.
http://www.albanycounty.com/uploadedFiles/2008-general-candidates.pdf
So sorry about the job but as part time jobs go there has to be something better out there. Good luck tomorrow. I don't know that I will watch but I will be flipping the channels just so I know. By the way who knew that the gay marriage was on the Florida ballot? Did not know that until last week. Interesting that they did not make a big deal of it down here? Hmmmm
Tivo Mom -
Gay marriage is already illegal in Florida - but the wingnuts wanted to make it SUPER DUPER illegal and amend the Florida constitution. Seriously. That's why it wasn't that big a deal - they weren't taking any rights away - gay people don't have the right to marry in the first place.
Contrast that with California, where gay marriage is LEGAL. Prop 8 is meant to take that right away.
Even though it is meaningless, it would be nice if the Florida amendment didn't pass - but it probably will.
Sorry about the troubles but way to stick it out. Busy day for me. Vote early then mom plans. See teachers and take kids to appointments them its watch election results at home and once DH is one its over to neighbors for a few drinks and to watch election results with them. I've made warnings that if things are not going my way I'm out. I will not be fit company and will drink alone.
I don't think making fun, or pushing your opinion of what others should do, is exactly what the Founding Fathers intended...but, hey, what do I know?
I'll be outside a polling place, all day, talking to voters and asking them to vote for my cool-ass Republican state rep (she likes the gays).
No money is worth that sort of grief. My plans are to weep and moan that I didn't save my ballot stubs from my absentee ballot, so that I could cash in on all the freebies for election day!
Thank you for the info. I was just so confused as to why it was even on the ballot. I actually voted the way we all should when faced with anything that pertains to more love in the world (should I sing We are the World now or later). But I appreciate the education.
Me and Hubs voted last week! Woohoo! we wanted to beat the rush tomorrow...
no big plans....just watching the tv all night and the computer, to see barack Obama declared the next president. What a day that will be! Who would have ever thunk it? A Bi-Racial President!!! Someone my kids can actually aspire to be like.
Mame- I did vote already by absentee back in September,as I drive to New Jersey everyday. After work I will probably rush home where I will be playing Hostess with the mostess as our abode may be used for campaign headquaters. It will be a long night and I will think of you. Make sure you make a toast with the victory.
i am SO EXCITED by your commitment to the cause "my friend"...
also, i am srsly hoping that the lines won't be AS LONG as predicted only b/c the lines now are at early voting locations of which there are, at the most, a handful in each county (but usu only one or two) and there will be many, many more polls open on 'the big day', but i am so happy to hear that you will stand strong for as long as necessary... O-BA-MA, O-BA-MA!!!
i will also be tethered to my computer tomorrow. will you be live-blogging? anyway, feel free to shoot me emails w/ updates and/or interesting links. i don't know what time local channels will start covering it, but i will be watching cnn.com's live feed.
:::PRAYING HARD FOR AN OBAMA WIN:::
@marker: UGH I AM SOOOO JEALOUS OF YOU!!! you must promise pics, ok? i will be looking for you on tv, tho i imagine there will be so many swarms of people that you'll be lost, but you never know... if you get in shouting distance, tell him kayce loves him, okay? thanks! =P
Unfortunately I'm at work before the polls open so as soon as I get home (well ok, to the train station) I'll go over to my polling place to vote. Not sure if I'll watch the results or not...it's worse than watching a scary movie. My stomach gets all in knots. But - DEEP BREATH - I hope our country doesn't once again turn stupid at the last minute. For my California compatriots:
Vote NO on 8!!!
I'm getting up early to vote, then off to work in the afternoon. I'll keep up with the election online.
It's so sad that Obama's Grandmother passed away on Sunday. If only she could have hung on to see the outcome of the election.
Awww Jerry Orbach was your neighbor? I love Jerry aka Lennie Briscoe. He was such a salty dog lol.
A $400,000 coffee table? Who does your boss think he is? A CEO at AIG? he he
Me, too, Tom. It will be a long day for sure. I'm a machine operator at my voting precinct, so I'll vote tomorrow. When I get home, I'll be glued to the TV and computer. There will be a couple of phone conversations, at least.
I am a total nervous wreck! I have blue state envy and wish I lived where a majority vote the way I do.
Damnit! I need to call Zombie Mom. I want to hang out with Pretty Nurse's family as well. Eh. I'm happy at home with a bottle of whatever.
I usually vote absentee but there are so many damn initiatives on the ballot statewide and locally. Then I started hearing horror stories of how last week was too late to mail in one's ballot. So I'll be dropping off my absentee ballot on my way to work tomorrow.
Originally I supposed to be spending my time tomorrow after work on the streets fighting for No on 8. Except that there was a training session yesterday that I had to attend. And after the events of Saturday -- my stepmother's death to be exact, I was a little too wiped out to bother.
Hell. It took a great deal to get me out of the fetal position on the couch on Saturday. Second death in my family in a little over three months. Most days I just want to pull the covers over my head. Except for where my ballot is concerned. I'd crawl down the street to turn it in.
Good riddance. You don't need to be hanging around with that nut job. Sorry about the loss of your extra income though. Maybe you'll have to return to workin' the streets again!
Since Spouse is volunteering at the polls for our next new governor, I think we will be going to his victory party Tues night. We'll see.
Mark :-)
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