Impulse

Well, it’s the night before the biggest and most con­tested elec­tion I’ve ever expe­ri­enced. I thought it’d be inter­est­ing to record a few pre-election thoughts to com­pare with tomorrow’s after­math.
It actu­ally feels like Kerry may have a chance at win­ning. Back dur­ing the pri­maries, I had declared that the Republicans would win sim­ply because there were 17 peo­ple in the Democrat pri­maries. I couldn’t see how a party so divided and unco­or­di­nated could stand a chance against the well-regimented Republican party, espe­cially con­sid­er­ing it’s media infra­struc­ture (Fox, Rush, etc).
But, I may have been wrong. This administration’s numer­ous mis­takes moti­vated a lot of oppo­si­tion. Moveon.org has been amaz­ing in their abil­ity to mobi­lize grass-roots efforts. The push to get new vot­ers has been incred­i­ble. Everyone I know who’s been lack­adaisi­cal about vot­ing is proudly declar­ing their inten­tion to vote, and, in fact, to encour­age oth­ers to do so.
So, I’m pleas­antly hope­ful about this elec­tion. I think we may be able to get our own nec­es­sary regime change.
And, even if Bush does win, I’m still hope­ful. If Kerry wins, he’ll be fac­ing hadr bat­tles in deal­ing with Iraq and try­ing to get all these changes through what will prob­a­bly still be a repub­li­can dom­i­nated Congress. These bat­tles will make this elec­tion seem easy. If he looses the elec­tion, he wouldn’t have been effec­tive at those later bat­tles; he wouldn’t be the right man for the job. The stage will be set for 2008.
And while I’m play­ing Fantasy Elections: how about Hillary Clinton vs John McCain in ’08?

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