In the aftermath(?) of Election Night.
I'm very tired right now. I was up until 2+ in the morning last night listening and tracking the elections. Very, very crazy night... I and a number of others were alternately clicking the refresh button on cnn.com and other places while talking in the Bush Won!!!! thread on AOKH OD. The vote now hinges on a couple of thousand people in Florida, and at one point it was down to 210 people. There are 210 people on my FLOOR practically.
Really amazing, huh? Really gives one a great sense of faith that your vote DOES count, that you DO matter. When 2,000 people in one state can elect the next president... yikes. I'm feeling very, very glad to have been able to vote in this one. What a first election, eh?
A few things about the night that I found entertaining:
Missouri elected a dead man to the Senate. No disrespect to the dead and all, and in fact I think it's pretty cool that people actually voted like that, but lol.
Hillary Clinton got elected to the Senate in New York. Again, lol.
Lieberman got elected to the Senate in Connetticut (and I know I spelled that wrong... ). Somebody's gonna be unhappy about that one, I'm sure.
It appears that Gore actually won the popular vote. Anybody else think the electoral college sucks?
I bet Jeb Bush is feeling really good right now.
In my listening to CNN's webcast of the night, I got to hear some of the reporters talking to themselves. There was an "Oh my God!" whisper when Carnahan (I think that's him) got elected in Missouri. One of the talking heads called himself a talking head. LOL. End result? Reminded me that reporters are people too. I forget that sometimes.
In an interesting episode, the heads talked to a Hollywood guy, who said something to the effect that "You couldn't sell this as a script in Hollywood, it's too wierd."
And that, as they say, is that. My first election night, my first presidential election. And I have no idea if my guy is gonna win. Exciting. Hillarious. Exhausting, even. I dunno if I'm gonna stay up long enough to make it to class at this rate.
Posted by Dwip at November 8, 2000 10:36 PM