I had a top five list all ready for tonight, but it’s going to have to wait till next week. The truth is, it’s election night and I am glued to the television, watching the results.
Normally I don’t like to talk politics, but I am quietly passionate about them. I’m not going to lie, every time I vote I get a little choked up. I love participating in the democratic process, and I wear my little “Georgia Voter” sticker with pride.
Do you remember the first time you voted? Do you have anything political you have been wanting to yell from the rooftops? Do you have anything else to talk about? It’s an open thread, do what you will.
36 replies on “Election Open Thread”
The first time I voted, it was for George McGovern against Richard Nixon. I don’t think I voted for the winner for the following 2 decades!
My vagina and I are happy that Obama won. Somewhere along the way, my sister the prosecuting attorney who used to be on the board for the ACLU in Nevada, has morphed into a Tea Bagger. I want to smack her and ask her where she thinks the loans to pay for law school came from
And I like to offer this for all the stupid replies on Facebook, republicans thinking they need to flee to Australia/Canada/Europe or how the end of the world is near.
Lol. Those have been my entertainment for the last 10+ hours.
I am, however, getting ragefacey from all the crapdates floating around (welfare queens, obama taking LEGOS, etc. etc.). It’s making me wish I would have broken my no politics on FB rule and slapped this video on my wall when I found it last week:
Oh that’s wonderful.
I don’t get why they think fleeing to said places will lead them somewhere that has policies more like what they want to see.
While there are a million other variables, the fact that Romney didn’t bother to write a concession speech really says volumes about him, and why we (as a country) dodged a bullet on that one. I am not by any means a Democrat nor a Republican, but… that man is clueless…
Yesterday I got to hear about how only welfare users living off Obama’s evil system would vote for him and Romney would triumph. It was the worst lunch of my life, keeping my mouth shut. Now all I can hear is Cee Lo Green in my head. Singing “Fuck You.” Because I got my ass out of bed at 5 am to go wait in line and vote before I went to a job that I get no benefits at, that I bust my ass at just to pay the bills. Take that.
Lunch is going to be fun today. I plan to insert snippets of reelection speech into my dialogue.
I know how you feel. I had to patiently explain to someone yesterday that the UAW giving workers the day off so they could vote was not, in point of fact, rigging the election.
Ye gods, I’m so relieved.
Edit: So..how do we make gifs work? I hit “insert into editor” and it won’t?
I got ’em in there, but I’m not sure why inserting them didn’t work for you…
Could it be the browser I’m using? I’m in chrome…
Thank you, though! I’m happy so needed to post happy gifs. :D
I’m not sure, it’s being really testy lately. I had to take away the WYSIWYG when it stopped working, but the uploader is being a jerk right now. I’ll dig in this upcoming weekend and see if I can find out why it’s thwarting us.
Okay. Thank you!
I has so much happy right now.
Someone please explain to me how the women and more importantly poor gay man on my fb feed are talking about how horrible it is the Obama won. I. . .I just can’t.
Poor as in not rich. Not in a pejorative sense.
I’m glad the US has seen sense. Also, marriage equality!!! http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/06/gay-marriage-results_n_2074188.html
I really, *really* want Romney to ad-lib his speech — there would *totally* be a (sober) Parizeau moment or five. (After losing the Quebec sovereignty referendum in 1995, a drunk Jacques Parizeau blamed the loss on “money and the ethnic vote.”)
!! I just did a happy dance. In the bathroom. By myself (because I’m surrounded by conservatives) but !!!!!!!!!!
So happy right now!
Can someone please explain to me how President Obama hates the following things: members of the military; the middle class; America
Because I am having a hard time not saying f-you to a few of my facebook friends who believe the world is ending.
Facebook needs .gifs.
I’m laughing at most of my feed. In my head, I’m not engaging, but it’s still a party.
I’m somewhat stunned at people’s reactions to his re-election. Everyone is a troll!
OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA!
G’bye, Mourdock, Akin, Brown, etc. You’ve been told.
OBAMA HAS BEEN REELECTED
THERE IS A GOD
BOOM! I can sleep now.
Elizabeth Warren! Woo-hoo! …so glad I got to vote in MA!
Also, yay on Akin losing!
In completely unrelated news, I heard two male college students intelligently discussing feminism on the bus today. Warmed my cold, feminist heart.
I miss going to the poll. Washington state has gone to all absentee ballots, and it just isn’t the same. But I voted. Not that my vote makes much different when you look at the demographics of my state. But hopefully at least one of my choices will will.
Elizabeth Warren won, that d-bag Mourdock lost, and I’m drunk.
COME ON OBAMA PULL THIS OUT
WOOOOOOOOHHOOOOOOOOO!
I am completely beside myself.
I am this close to gnawing on my hands until the election results are in.
On the upside, Claire McCaskill was ahead in the exit polls. TAKE THAT TODD AKIN.
The electorate has a way of shutting that right down.
I’ve seen so many variations on that joke tonight…still love it!
Ahhh… I know. I’msitting here watching the tv and reading the live blog on 538, and twitching.