Comments on: Well, I voted

By: J

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 13:03:43 +0000

I feel just like Neo and like PA+Cat: incredibly stressed now by every election. I live in Pennsylvania, and my congressional district has been gerrymandered by the Democrat-dominated PA Supreme Court, which took over redistricting without any justification at all, simply because Democrats didn’t like the map produced by the Republican legislature. My congressional district now reaches from Pittsburgh into my county–25 miles away!–and the Democrat won easily.

By: neo

neo — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 03:09:26 +0000

I put up a new thread for election results.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 02:12:37 +0000

Back from a fourteen-hour day at the polls, too tired to watch TV, and they bother me anyhow. Around here, early vote results are from early voting totals, and election day votes come in later in the evening.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 02:11:48 +0000

At least the @#$&$# phone calls and texts have stopped.

By: Chases Eagles

Chases Eagles — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 02:08:10 +0000

Mrs Whatsit, tesseract.

By: steve walsh

steve walsh — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 02:05:39 +0000

Always been a Red guy in a Blue state; Massachusetts for my first 63 years, Maine for the last two. I’m accustomed to backing the losers. As a consequence I don’t invest too much of myself into election outcomes, and generally speaking whoever wins doesn’t have a major impact on my life and circumstances. C’est la Vie!

By: Frederick

Frederick — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 02:03:00 +0000

“But it seemed that no matter what, the big picture would go on more or less as before.”

Coming of age during six decades of one-party control of Congress may have had something to do with that.

By: Cornflour

Cornflour — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:54:22 +0000

Neo wrote this: “When I was a young adult, elections weren’t at all stressful to me. I cared about the outcomes, of course. But it seemed that no matter what, the big picture would go on more or less as before. … Now I get very stressed out and can barely stand to watch the returns.”

I’m a few years younger than Neo, but this is just the way my own attitude has changed over the years. Beyond aging itself, what’s the explanation? Looks like a theme for a new novel by Thomas Hardy. A new novel to help us understand the American experience? We already know the answer: white male heterosexual cisgender oppression.

Now there’s no need for any further thought or fiction; and, no coincidence, you know how to vote and think about everything, so all that stress disappears.

You’re welcome.

By: Mrs Whatsit

Mrs Whatsit — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:46:48 +0000

I can’t vote! I was unexpectedly called out of state by a family emergency (now under control) on Sunday, won’t be back until I don’t know when, didn’t vote early and it’s too late to get an absentee ballot. Frustrating. Where I live in NY, my vote wasn’t going to matter anyway, but I wanted badly to do it.

I’ve been stubbornly refusing to vote early because the safest route seems to be to vote on Election Day, in person, in front of poll watchers who know me by name, just as I always have. But now I wish I’d voted last week while I still could.

By: physicsguy

physicsguy — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 00:29:31 +0000

I watched a bit of the early returns just now…depressing. To me looks like the red tsunami may be more like a little 3ft breaker. Kemp and Walker both not looking good in Georgia. If Abrams win, no sympathy at all for what those Georgians are going to get.

One bit of good news, the heavily Cuban Hispanic Miami Dade going red.