The presidential election is now officially over and President George W. Bush now has another four years in office. Kerry is set to concede in about an hour and Bush will likely make his victory speech in the hours following.
Now that the election is over, you can expect fresh, non-2004 election related content on this site. Coming soon: coverage of the 2006 congressional elections and the 2008 elections.
Kidding.
Wooooooooo!
At this point of the night, none of the major news networks have called the election in favor of either candidate. Kerry certainly has not conceded although it seems likely Bush will become the victor as results continue to appear from remaining undecided states. Considering that that political pundits from the major networks at this point are practically falling asleep on television, I have decided to go to sleep. We’ll know more in the morning. Despite my previous predictions of a lawyer-determined outcome to the election, I now have hope it will not unravel that way.
Then again, the owner of the Boston Red Sox is lending his plane to John Kerry to fly a herd of lawyers to Ohio.
5 Reasons to Vote for Kerry:
- will presumably bring more multilatteral alliances
- an affinity for the French
- the environment will thank you (but he owns several SUVs for some reason)
- higher taxes for everyone (his rhetoric says he won’t, but his voting history says he will)
- a vote for Kerry is a vote for Heinz Ketchup Supremacy!
5 Reasons to Vote for Bush:
- lower taxes (promised and delivered)
- an already existant multinational coalition in Iraq
- Saddam Hussein is not a threat
- the economy is recovering well from the late-Clinton-era decline
- Pro-Life
That’s all I’ve got. I’d come up with a more spelled-out list of reasons you might want to vote for each candidate, but there’s no time at this point and by now you’ve already seen and heard most of the same issues debated repetetively for months. One thing that frustrated me immensely is how political partisans stuck to the main points and never spelled out the real benefits, moral, or ethical reasons their positions are the right ones. Alas, I will have to live without. I’ve already come to my own conclusions about most of the issues.
Tomorrow, it’s your turn to decide.
Tuesday night and following, the lawyers will decide. This is modern American politics, and, unfortunately, I don’t expect it to change anytime soon.
If you signed up to vote in a registration drive, you may want to check and make sure you’re really registered before election day. Some Republicans who signed up in voting drives have reported that their registrations, at least in some cases here in Colorado, were never turned in. Most voting drives are sponsored and paid for by Democrats in an attempt to get people who may not have voted otherwise to the polls. As such, there’s some suspicion and some evidence that people who register as Republicans in these voting drives may have their voter registration “misplaced.”
So contact your county clerk or some other election official ASAP if you want to make sure your right to vote wasn’t lost.
According to members of each presidential candidate’s campaigns, their own candidate won the debate. Personally, I think they just about split and neither seemed to have a clear advantage in terms of speaking or performing better. However, I know which candidate I agree with. You already know who I agree with. On the crucial matter of who won the debate though, I believe America must come to a decision. We cannot move forward in this world without certainty and clarity and we must know: WHO WON THE DEBATE? Don’t let the professional politicians tell you who won, YOU DECIDE! Vote!