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Nov. 5th, 2008 02:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kleenexwomanI did intend to stay up for the election coverage tonight, but I came home and crashed. Sammi woke me up at eleven to tell me that Obama won.
"Awesome," I said. "I'm gonna make pancakes." (I had just woken up.)
God, that was the shortest election night I've ever experienced. I couldn't vote in the 2000 election, but the counting seemed to go on for weeks. I remember staying up all night in the 2004 election and falling asleep in front of the TV. Even in the 2006 House election, I stayed up and channel-flipped. And I slept through the really nerve-wracking part of this one. Wow. I really wasn't expecting it to be a close race anyway, but there's kind of been a precedent for all-night wankery and overt shadiness, you know? My personal ballot woes aside, there was very little of that. McCain just up and conceded and left me time to do my homework. (Not that I can concentrate on that tonight.)
*big sigh of relief*
Michigan went blue. The unofficial results from the Vote Michigan website say (or did last time I checked) that most of the representatives elected were Dem. Except for Dave Camp. >:( Dammit, I wanted to see him gone. Well, he did have signs up all over the place. I think I shall donate another $5 or $10 to Planned Parenthood in his name as a congratulations gift.
Proposal 1, the legalization of medical marijuana, passed. Sammi was really happy about that. I thought that Proposal 2, permitting stem cell research in Michigan, had not passed. But it did!
I'm too tired to be excited, but I am fucking happy.
And you know what I have? Delicious pancakes for all.
"Awesome," I said. "I'm gonna make pancakes." (I had just woken up.)
God, that was the shortest election night I've ever experienced. I couldn't vote in the 2000 election, but the counting seemed to go on for weeks. I remember staying up all night in the 2004 election and falling asleep in front of the TV. Even in the 2006 House election, I stayed up and channel-flipped. And I slept through the really nerve-wracking part of this one. Wow. I really wasn't expecting it to be a close race anyway, but there's kind of been a precedent for all-night wankery and overt shadiness, you know? My personal ballot woes aside, there was very little of that. McCain just up and conceded and left me time to do my homework. (Not that I can concentrate on that tonight.)
*big sigh of relief*
Michigan went blue. The unofficial results from the Vote Michigan website say (or did last time I checked) that most of the representatives elected were Dem. Except for Dave Camp. >:( Dammit, I wanted to see him gone. Well, he did have signs up all over the place. I think I shall donate another $5 or $10 to Planned Parenthood in his name as a congratulations gift.
Proposal 1, the legalization of medical marijuana, passed. Sammi was really happy about that. I thought that Proposal 2, permitting stem cell research in Michigan, had not passed. But it did!
I'm too tired to be excited, but I am fucking happy.
And you know what I have? Delicious pancakes for all.
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Date: 2008-11-05 08:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-05 10:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-05 11:01 am (UTC)I don't know whether my ballot will count (it probably still hasn't arrived, so probably not). I didn't vote for prop 2 because I thought it put too many limits on stem cell research. I think fertility-treatments only is too limited for stem cell research if Michigan wants to attract more biotech business.
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Date: 2008-11-05 10:19 pm (UTC)I think Prop 2 isn't perfect, but it did seem like a step forward, and certainly better than the alternative.
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Date: 2008-11-05 05:35 pm (UTC)Joe Knollenberg went down in flames, and good riddance to the bastard. Southfield got redistricted to be under his legislative control in the 1990s, but we went back to Sandy Levin (which is where we belong) after 2000. Still -- glad to see that fuckwad gone.
Save me a small stack (five or six) of yer flapjax. I have a sore throat and can't eat anything right now but Jell-O and water but I'll take 'em when you're down here for Thanksgiving.
Ooh, this is gonna be so good. People are happy all over. And I went to five or six drugstores and my local Borders and they had all sold out of newspapers by about 8:30AM. And that says something. Because no one buys newspapers anymore. Except when something like this happens.
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Date: 2008-11-05 10:21 pm (UTC)*gives you pancakes* I have a sore throat too. :( And I'm still not sure at all about what's happening on Thanksgiving--I might just be down there for a couple days with the family and then go right back up to school. I will be back after graduation, though, so we can see what happens then.
Agh, I forgot to get a paper! No matter, I get all my news online now anyway.
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Date: 2008-11-06 02:52 pm (UTC)I know what you're saying about local politics. It isn't quite as exciting as a Presidential election, but it is worth training oneself to take an interest in. And like I've probably said to you a bunch of times, it's more important than the big offices in many ways. If you have a problem and need to get shit done, you go to your Congressman -- or your state legislator -- or your city councilman. You don't call the White House. Mister POTUS has bigger things to think about on a daily basis, like whether he should wave to the crowds with his left hand or his right.
Well, do plan on seeing me when you're in town, even if we just hang out for a few hours. I miss you. (Yeah, yeah. Shaddup.)
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Date: 2008-11-06 02:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-06 02:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-06 03:27 pm (UTC)We need to get together. When are you free? This weekend is bad for me.
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Date: 2008-11-06 03:38 pm (UTC)