Election Day thoughts
1. I really wish that election pundits and journalists would learn their country’s geography. I appear to be the only person who gets sick of hearing things like “And now let’s turn to election results from the Midwest. In Ohio…” Really, people. Ohio is not, I repeat NOT part of the Midwest. I can let slide when people call Chicago part of the Midwest because it’s near the edge, but Ohio? That’s insane. The Midwest does not start at the borders of Pennsylvania. Kansas? Sure. Missouri? Yes. Iowa? You bet. Ohio? Not by a long shot.
2. Samantha Bee of “The Daily Show with John Stewart”… Hot or smokin’ hot? I’m thinking the latter.
3. Rick Santorum, a man so vile and hateful that a popular sex columnist named a foul bodily discharge that results from anal sex after the Congressman, was defeated. That’s what I call awesome.
4. I think I need to buy myself a calendar. I actually forgot it was election day until just after 3:00 pm.
5. I’m starting to worry about my politics. I watched election coverage on both CNN and Fox News for several hours, and walked away thinking that CNN’s coverage really seemed to carry with it a liberal bias (a bias in my favor, of course), while Fox’s seemed more neutral and impartial. Either the world or I have gone mad for change, and I’m hoping that the sweeping ouster of the ruling party indicates the former.
6. Kansas retained our democratic governor by a wide margin. I understood how that happened when she was elected for the first time. The Kansas Republican Party made a tactical error so large that I wondered whether their party leadership had been hijacked by the extreme right-wing nutjobs who stood no chance of being elected. It turned out that I was right. I thought the Kansas GOP had learned from their glaring mistake and nominated a more middle-of-the-party conservative who wouldn’t lose the independents and moderates to the Democratic Party. Strangely enough, he still lost. Even more bizarre, Kansas Congressman Jim Ryun lost his seat to a democratic challenger. Does this portend a slight shift in Kansas politics away from the right? It sure gives one pause. Gives one something else, too. Hope.
7. I can’t help but wonder to what extent this is simply a temporary reaction against the bumbling leadership of the national GOP. A small part of me wants to embrace this change as the gradual shift of America to be more in line with the nearly universally accepted values of the international community, but I have a strong feeling that it is just a small blip on the radar that will be the political landscape of my life. Sure, this election may have a small victory for the left – and maybe we’ll take the next one, too – but until the Democratic party can regain its soul, it’ll just be the anti-Republican Party, and will continue to lose the hearts of American voters.
2. Samantha Bee of “The Daily Show with John Stewart”… Hot or smokin’ hot? I’m thinking the latter.
3. Rick Santorum, a man so vile and hateful that a popular sex columnist named a foul bodily discharge that results from anal sex after the Congressman, was defeated. That’s what I call awesome.
4. I think I need to buy myself a calendar. I actually forgot it was election day until just after 3:00 pm.
5. I’m starting to worry about my politics. I watched election coverage on both CNN and Fox News for several hours, and walked away thinking that CNN’s coverage really seemed to carry with it a liberal bias (a bias in my favor, of course), while Fox’s seemed more neutral and impartial. Either the world or I have gone mad for change, and I’m hoping that the sweeping ouster of the ruling party indicates the former.
6. Kansas retained our democratic governor by a wide margin. I understood how that happened when she was elected for the first time. The Kansas Republican Party made a tactical error so large that I wondered whether their party leadership had been hijacked by the extreme right-wing nutjobs who stood no chance of being elected. It turned out that I was right. I thought the Kansas GOP had learned from their glaring mistake and nominated a more middle-of-the-party conservative who wouldn’t lose the independents and moderates to the Democratic Party. Strangely enough, he still lost. Even more bizarre, Kansas Congressman Jim Ryun lost his seat to a democratic challenger. Does this portend a slight shift in Kansas politics away from the right? It sure gives one pause. Gives one something else, too. Hope.
7. I can’t help but wonder to what extent this is simply a temporary reaction against the bumbling leadership of the national GOP. A small part of me wants to embrace this change as the gradual shift of America to be more in line with the nearly universally accepted values of the international community, but I have a strong feeling that it is just a small blip on the radar that will be the political landscape of my life. Sure, this election may have a small victory for the left – and maybe we’ll take the next one, too – but until the Democratic party can regain its soul, it’ll just be the anti-Republican Party, and will continue to lose the hearts of American voters.
posted by The Academian | 8:36 PM
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