A New Day
As I slug coffee and rub my eyes after a late night of flipping between Judy Woodruff, Brit Hume, and (my personal favorite) Chris Matthews, today feels like a new day. I rarely discuss or even mention politics on this site, mainly because it isn't a pleasurable or comfortable topic for people to discuss (unless of course you're in like-minded company), but the radical change in not only the power of the federal government but my home state of Georgia deserves mention.
Regardless of political affiliation, you have to admit that last night was an impressive display of our Democracy in action, warts and all, and how incredibly wrong many of the talking heads and media "experts" were about races all across the country.
There is something quite pleasurable in watching news anchors today on all the networks shrug their shoulders, smirk, and wax poetic verse about how wrong their predictions and poll watchers were. This has nothing to do with political affiliation, but rather the power of the American people to make up their own minds, vote, and effectively prove who controls the voice and power of this country.
Now if we could only do something about Microsoft.
Comments
Amen. The media is the one of the most annoying parts of the whole political engine.
Posted by: OnFire4jc at November 6, 2002 12:40 PM
The more republican the government, the less likely that anything will be done to rein in Microsoft. Even before Bush became president there was talk that his administartion would try to settle the MS anti-trust suit. Lo and behold!
Posted by: tswan at November 6, 2002 5:25 PM
I did get a little rush of patriotism as I stood in line to vote. That all went away when I saw the returns. As Kent Brockman said, "Democracy simply doesn’t work."
Posted by: dave at November 6, 2002 9:25 PM
Georgia’s voting machines (don’t call them computers, you’ll scare the old people) were a big improvement to the whole process. That almost made up for the scary Republican turnout. Almost.
Posted by: Lee at November 6, 2002 10:56 PM
Todd wrote: "This has nothing to do with political affiliation, but rather the power of the American people to make up their own minds, vote, and effectively prove who controls the voice and power of this country."
Turnout in the US midterm elections was 39%. 39% controls the voice & power of this country?
--Ray, an expat who sent in his ballot six weeks ago.
Posted by: Ray at November 7, 2002 2:54 PM
I saw some of that coverage (the BBC relayed it for nightowls in the UK), and all the reporters seemed to be reading prepared statements, avoiding saying anything controversial, interesting or amusing. How can you stand it?
Posted by: John at November 10, 2002 4:15 AM
One would only make this comment if they thought the outcome of the elections was a fair and true account of our "Democracy" at work. The outright lies and voter manipulation doled out to the :Sheep" via the media today has reduced our great country to a mediocre imperialistic state unworthy of any world leadership or respect for that matter. Michael Moore spells it all out in "Stupid White Men". Check it out. It's truely infuriating and enlightening.
Posted by: Chas. Allan at November 14, 2002 7:49 AM
