Stayed up til about 3 last night, flipping between the major networks. I’m dragging today, but at least I wasn’t up for no good reason (an all-to-common occurance). A few post-election day notes:
1. Exit polling is evidently totally useless. At 2 p.m. yesterday “everyone” was showing Kerry with huge 10+ percentage point leads, even in the reddest of red states. Heh. They probably asked the same people that flooded online polls after the debates declaring Kerry victorious by 75-25 margins.
2. Dan Rather really, really, REALLY needs to retire. It was entertaining to flip between the news channels and gauge the overall mood of the commentators… Compared to the rest of the stations, who maintained a fairly even keel, the CBS newsroom almost seemed in a state of panic/crisis. I think if Dan Rather were reporting the end of the world he would have used the same tone he did last night. That and his metaphors cracked me up. According to him, the race in Iowa was “hot enough to peel the paint off houses.” I’m not making that up.
3. If I hear the phrase “we live in a democracy” one more time… Folks, remembering our high school government classes, we live in a constitutional republic. Our voting for elected officials who represent segments of the population is a form of the democratic process, but a true democracy we are not. Most every nation that has a “democratic” form of government is for all intents and purposes a corrupt state of chaos.
4. Why can’t there be a consistent voting procedure throughout the country, or at least the state? Some counties have the touch screens, others have punch cards… I voted by completing arrows next to my candidates of choice (kind of SAT-ish). If standardized scholastic testing can occur seamlessly on a continuous basis, can’t we homogenize the voting procedure every four (or two) years?
yes, i had to find this entry
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=a5e7nWC3YlcE&refer=top_world_news
Whoa. Who called it? Hmm?
*does victory dance*
Thanks for the link :)