the day that was

[sistawendy]

No cut. No crap.

1-Nov 5:30 p.m. Rent car.

2-Nov 1:00 a.m. Sleep poorly.
5:00 Wake up in anticipation of alarm.
6:00 Uppy time.
7:00 Vote. Quite the turnout.
7:30 Go to 48th district HQ in Bellevue. Get coffee, instructions, & canvassing buddy Ken.
8:30 Wave signs on 8th St. in Bellevue. Get soaked.
9:30 Replace stolen Kerry sign at my house. Check a polling place in N. Kirkland. A majority on my list have already voted.
10:00 Canvas N. Kirkland.
10:30 Check polls on a precinct in Downtown Redmond.
11:00 Canvas Redmond. My list says "walkable", but that's hooey. Halfway through I get the car. Not many people are home, so I make with the stickies & literature.
12:30 p.m. Back to Bellevue to devour lunch in packed HQ. Much happy talk about early returns.
2:00 Back to N. Kirkland for poll check and more canvassing.
3:00 Back to downtown Redmond. A couple of Move On people tell Ken & me that some Republican has been hassling people about bumper stickers on the backs of their clipboards. Yes, that's against the rules. All of us Dems got such clipboards at HQ, but I didn't even know the stickers were there until lunchtime. Good thing I never used mine. Station Ken there to keep an eye on things.
3:30 Canvas another Redmond precinct in condoland. Some buildings leave me no choice but to sticky locked exterior doors.
4:30 Ken says Republican Dude has been whining at length to Redmond Polling Place Lady in Charge, but not necessarily about anything voting-related. I call it in to HQ, which appears to be the end of it.
5:30 On the way to Bellevue HQ calls & says N. Kirkland is running out of provisional ballot envelopes. Could I run off some more?
6:00 You betcha. It takes a few seconds to convince N. Kirkland officials that I want to copy blank ballots. Kinko's can't copy from envelope to envelope fast enough, by the way, so I...
6:30 ...get crazy with the Scotch tape as bemused precinct workers look on. Warmest fuzzy of the day.
7:30 Make one last GOtV effort in N. Kirkland. Middle aged lady appears to be lying to me about having voted. Okey doke.
8:00 Polls close. Return materials to Bellevue.
9:00 Watch tube obsessively. Eat way too many pistachios. Get upset with Her Nibs for making depressed noises.
10:00 Cuddle Nibs.
11:00 Sleep the sleep of the just.

Rides to polls offered: 3. Accepted: 0.

I think JK is dead right to wait on more results from Ohio. I'd skin him alive if he didn't. It does seem likely, though, that we're going to spend the next few years waiting for the Republicans to screw up badly enough to get unelected. The good news is that they've definitely got it in them; the bad news is that lots of innocent people will suffer.

Somewhere out there are several hundred of me in Florida and Ohio who feel a lot worse than I do.

Comments

[ziggy-prime.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your work, from a lone Democrat in a Republican state.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

My pleasure. Keep the faith.

[cow.livejournal.com]

> It does seem likely, though, that we're going to spend the next few years waiting for the Republicans to screw up badly enough to get unelected.

But he won with 58 million votes, and both the House and Senate are even more Republican. How much more screwing up is it going to take to get them unelected?

Thanks for all your work, though. :D

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Wayell, reinstating the draft or banning abortion are a couple of (now) likely scenarios. The economic havoc wrought by massive deficits alone might do it.