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November 7, 2005
Election Eve
I've felt this feeling before. It's a nervous anticipation - a restlessness. Last year I worked on election day with about 2 and a half hours sleep - only for everything in the technical world function properly and allow me the luxury of a mid-afternoon 25 minute nap on the floor of my office. I'll be in another campaign office starting around 5 this morning - here we go again.
Last time, there was a sense of optimism. The feeling that history was going to change. And then there was the scrutiny. The feeling of being watched. In the I-4, all eyes were on us until we dropped Florida and the stoic glance of the pundits and politicos shifted to Ohio. This time, there's nowhere else to look. Sure there's also elections in Jersey and New York, but those are not considered bellweathers. Victory brings a Democratic mandate - a rebuff to a corrupt Presidency and a Crooked House. Defeat continues the downward decline of everything that I believe in. Is it possible to feel as though you're responsible for your destiny, and yet simultatenously feel completely out of control? Surely those thousands of voters I talked to this summer will take something away from our conversation.
I can smell the desperation. The last minute GOTV rallies with an unpopular President. The spliced robo-calls. The fake literature drops. They know what's riding on this one. These people will stop at nothing - they desperately cling to their power.
It's go time. Let's kick their crooked ass.
Posted by MikeSager at November 7, 2005 11:17 PM
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Ramen to that brother! Let's do exactly that!
Posted by: Chris Casey at November 8, 2005 5:26 PM
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