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2006 Election
So, the election. One personal boo is I didn't get called to be an interpretor as I had originally signed up for. But no big loss -- I got a few extra hours of sleep instead of dragging myself to the poll station on my day off from opening ^_^
Almost all of the U.S. news sites are watching the results closely, so no need to regurgitate here. I did make one interesting observation regarding the elections today:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
elanor is visiting from the U.K. and we were hanging out with a bunch of other LJers from the New York metro area. At some point during the night, we realized how difficult it was to be a non-American visiting the U.S. on election day -- there was no way for a visitor to join in all the politicky election talks.
Which made me wonder: how important is the election? Are we Americans making it out to be so much more important than it really is, when parts of the world still suffer from hunger and/or lack clean water and none of it stops just because of the U.S. election? But America is, for better or worse, an influential country, and our election matters. Especially during this particular midterm election, when (speaking as a left-of-center voter) there's a real chance to change the current one-party rule over pretty much all three branches of the government.
So, I will be watching the results closely. I do want to know who got the senator seat in the close NJ race. I was cheering in Lisa's car when the radio news channel announced Santorum's defeat.
As for the long-term effects of today's election, I guess we'll see in the weeks and months to come.
Almost all of the U.S. news sites are watching the results closely, so no need to regurgitate here. I did make one interesting observation regarding the elections today:
elanor is visiting from the U.K. and we were hanging out with a bunch of other LJers from the New York metro area. At some point during the night, we realized how difficult it was to be a non-American visiting the U.S. on election day -- there was no way for a visitor to join in all the politicky election talks.Which made me wonder: how important is the election? Are we Americans making it out to be so much more important than it really is, when parts of the world still suffer from hunger and/or lack clean water and none of it stops just because of the U.S. election? But America is, for better or worse, an influential country, and our election matters. Especially during this particular midterm election, when (speaking as a left-of-center voter) there's a real chance to change the current one-party rule over pretty much all three branches of the government.
So, I will be watching the results closely. I do want to know who got the senator seat in the close NJ race. I was cheering in Lisa's car when the radio news channel announced Santorum's defeat.
As for the long-term effects of today's election, I guess we'll see in the weeks and months to come.
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The Democrats are weak and ineffectual: But they're not Bush. which is of the good. They'll have to sink or swim with their new responsibilities, but at least the US electorate will have sent out a message.
So...help me out as i'm tired and confused: We're waiting on Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and...um,somewhere else? Rather enjoyed Hillary's rather rousing speech but am flagging now and keep throwing cushions at the anchorman on CNBC news!
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At the time last night, we were still waiting on a lot of West Coast states, which are three hours behind compared to the time zone on the East Coast. Polls usually close around 8 or 9 depending on the state, and after they close people had to shut down and count votes and all that... so it's quite literally something Americans could stay up the whole night for to find out.
Browsing through news Web sites, I notice that state-by-state results are floating in (it's just before 5 a.m. here now) and the Democrats are pretty much announced as having won the House (!). Yay, but now I have to go to work -_-