I can't believe that more than half the country wants Bush in office again. He's just...inept, and silly, and doesn't seem to have his own opinions. His advisors do, perhaps they should have been the ones running. "Didn't make any mistakes in the last four years" my foot.

I still hope and pray that Kerry can pull ahead, but I have to be realistic and say that it doesn't look like he will. And then I think of how awful it will be under four years of full Republican control. Here's where I fall into the trap of not being very good at articulating my political feelings. I can't enumerate exactly what it is I don't like about the GOP, other than everything seems to get just a little more expensive, a little more unfriendly. The thing is, if they control everything, if there are any problems, they can't blame 'partisan politics,' it will be their own fault.

This was such a nasty election year. It makes me sad that in a way, even though I cast my vote like I should have, in a state that was swinging at one point, but in both the presidential elections I've voted in, it seems like it didn't count. I guess I helped the Carnahan family, who sends a congressman and a secretary of state into office for Missouri. But if you look at the map, you see the cities, with their typically better educated constituents, voting Kerry, and the rural areas voting Bush. We didn't really have a chance. Bah.

It's just depressing to think that whoever is elected is going to have half of the country hate him right off the bat.

Oy. Civic duty is good and all that, but it would be nice if I could vote for the Democratic candidate that I like and have him (or her, as in the race for governor) win, without trouble.

I have to say yay for Illinois, with Barack Obama winning the senate seat...I wish I could have voted for him. He sounds like a great guy and I think he'll go far.

Katie Couric asked her guest this morning, a former Clinton aide, if Hillary was going to run in 2008. The lady said, "We haven't even picked this term's president and you're talking about 2008?" She's the front runner though. And I'm pretty sure that no one will like the Republicans in four years.

*last minute shout-out to Dems*