Election stuff
Nov. 6th, 2012 06:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
citrinesunsetI'm a little anxious about the election. But mostly I'll just be glad when today is over.
I voted at 10:30 which seemed like a good time. Not too many people. I'm hoping it picked up more in the evening when people got off work (or earlier in the morning, before work), though.
This election has been a bigger deal, in terms of campaigning, than I ever remember. There are campaign signs everywhere. I've gotten so many things in the mail. And I've gotten calls from campaign people very day.
Even today, when I got home from voting and running errands, there were four voicemails from people reminding me to vote! And I saw a guy with a clipboard walking down my street.
I thought it would end at six when voting ended, but now I'm getting calls asking if I voted or not. Oy. I guess they want to get an idea of how many people voted, though, which is understandable.
I don't truly mind all of this because I do believe the election is important. And I'm glad to see people caring about it.
Oh, and I got a thing in the mail today from a political organization that seems to be under the impression that I'm Asian-American. I'm not, so that's a little unusual.
Ugh, I'm nervous about this election, though. It's too close for comfort. And I'm nervous since Romney is currently in the lead (most votes aren't in yet, though...).
I voted at 10:30 which seemed like a good time. Not too many people. I'm hoping it picked up more in the evening when people got off work (or earlier in the morning, before work), though.
This election has been a bigger deal, in terms of campaigning, than I ever remember. There are campaign signs everywhere. I've gotten so many things in the mail. And I've gotten calls from campaign people very day.
Even today, when I got home from voting and running errands, there were four voicemails from people reminding me to vote! And I saw a guy with a clipboard walking down my street.
I thought it would end at six when voting ended, but now I'm getting calls asking if I voted or not. Oy. I guess they want to get an idea of how many people voted, though, which is understandable.
I don't truly mind all of this because I do believe the election is important. And I'm glad to see people caring about it.
Oh, and I got a thing in the mail today from a political organization that seems to be under the impression that I'm Asian-American. I'm not, so that's a little unusual.
Ugh, I'm nervous about this election, though. It's too close for comfort. And I'm nervous since Romney is currently in the lead (most votes aren't in yet, though...).
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Date: 2012-11-07 01:54 am (UTC)I voted last week during early voting. Better parking, better machines. But the national race doesn't matter as much here, Illinois. I think they declared us Obama the minute our polls closed. Romney didn't even bother with TV ads here. I was in California 4 years ago, I finally had to stop watching tv the ads got so bad.
This is the part I hate though, the waiting.
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Date: 2012-11-07 03:11 am (UTC)Four years ago, the commercials annoyed me so much that I'd change the channel whenever one came on. This time around, I actually haven't noticed the commercials as much because I think I don't watch as much TV (at least not on the actual television, instead of the computer). When I did watch, I did see a lot of Romney ads, though. Probably a few more than Obama.
The bad thing here was the phone calls. Good grief. I was getting multiple calls a day, almost every day. Though, I actually expected to get more calls on my cell phone because I made the questionable decision of giving that number out to some political organizations. No one called me on my cell, though. Just my home phone, which I'm careful not to give out. So I'm pretty sure they were all going by voter records.
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Date: 2012-11-07 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-07 05:51 am (UTC)I am pretty excited/optimistic. But yeah, I know all too well how things can get bogged down in appeals and recounts. 2000 was the first election where I was really old enough to pay attention, and it left an impression on me. Same with the marriage equality bills that have passed--I'm super excited, but I've seen so many victories get caught up in nasty legal battles a la Proposition 8.
So I'm optimistic, but cautiously so. I guess Romney's supposed to concede, though, so hopefully that means this won't drag on much longer.