I am so ready for these elections to be OVER. drove to complete lit drop for 2 precincts near my house. The guy I was driving was so irritated to be hitting houses he had already canvassed before. He was all "why didn't they early vote?!?!" And the phone-bankers for the same campaign were having people straight up lie about voting early, when the campaign has all the early voting data downloaded already. GEEZ!
I text-banked 2500 people today. Lots of argumentative people in Alabama. Lots of people thinking any text in Texas is from Beto.
There are three election night watch parties that I am aware of, but I do not think I can stomach being around a lot pf people if it is bad.
I might go play trombone at Elizabeth Warren's party.
As options go, that is a pretty good one, Jesse.
msbelle, I wish I could teleport you here to election night watch. I have only invited my kids and a couple close friends who understand that I may alternate between sobbing and dancing. Despite the important races closer to home I think all of us are pulling for Beto at the top of our list.
If I could play trombone and go to Sen. Warren's party I would choose that option.
I mean, I'll have to miss yoga, but...yeah.
I plan to be away from a TV, possibly with a nice long fanfic, and some Ambien. I do not want a repeat of two years ago, crying on the couch. I will deal with whatever happened on Wednesday morning.
My favorite "negative" text-banking response so far has been "Sorry, I died."
Hah, Dana.
I'm so stressed that I'm taking tomorrow off and going hiking somewhere remote and off-line with a friend who works at EPA. We'll take the dogs and some snacks and climb a ridge and hopefully be out of cell-phone range for most of the day. Then, I think, tacos and beer.
BTW, I just started listening to Rachel Maddow's new podcast, BagMan, about Spiro Agnew. It's interesting but I wish she would stop hammering the Trump parallels so hard. WE KNOW.
Yeah, I love Rachel, but after her 20-30 minute opening monologues on her show I inevitably think that she could have made that point in 3 minutes.
I'll be driving my elder son to the polls tomorrow because he never changed his polling location after moving 6 years ago! He still shows as active. Honestly, the reason he didn't change is because he wanted to stay in Broward to vote against Debbie Wasserman Schultz. He is voting for the Independent Bernie Bot running against her. Whatever, as long as he votes. He will do the right thing for the Senate and Governor races here so it all works out. He is excited about Gillum and asked me for a sign for his yard, which I provided.
I enjoy her openings. I inevitably learn about something new. I haven't started bagman yet. Maybe when I'm done with my current audiobook.
