For the second election in a row we've woken up Wednesday morning without knowing who the president is. At least this time it seems to be because people actually voted and the race was so close. Yahoo has Bush at 254 and Kerry at 252 with NM, IA, and OH still counting the votes. At least this year Florida managed to make a decision.
After almost two months of debates and ballot recounts, Hamid Karzai has been declared the president of Afghanistan. They've been waiting since Oct. 9th for a decision on their country but it was their first election ever so this was a great event for Afghanistan.
For now, the US President can wait. It's time to go to work.
3:30 pm. Thank-you Mondo for the poll report. Your work is very much appreciated. I see that we now have a president again and that Iowa is still undeclared. Is that because Kerry conceded that Iowa isn't going to show up as a red state? Lucky Iowa gets to stay an unaffiliated color and the race was within 300,000 votes.
Now that we are in the phase of blame for mis-information about the race Blogs are getting bad publicity for being, well, Blogs. Who knew that I might be part of the problem by blogging the state report last night? My bad. You can read a couple of the articles here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/washpost/20041103/tc_washpost/a21932_2004nov3 and here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137527,00.html
After almost two months of debates and ballot recounts, Hamid Karzai has been declared the president of Afghanistan. They've been waiting since Oct. 9th for a decision on their country but it was their first election ever so this was a great event for Afghanistan.
For now, the US President can wait. It's time to go to work.
3:30 pm. Thank-you Mondo for the poll report. Your work is very much appreciated. I see that we now have a president again and that Iowa is still undeclared. Is that because Kerry conceded that Iowa isn't going to show up as a red state? Lucky Iowa gets to stay an unaffiliated color and the race was within 300,000 votes.
Now that we are in the phase of blame for mis-information about the race Blogs are getting bad publicity for being, well, Blogs. Who knew that I might be part of the problem by blogging the state report last night? My bad. You can read a couple of the articles here: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&e=5&u=/washpost/20041103/tc_washpost/a21932_2004nov3 and here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137527,00.html
It was a long, exhausting and exciting day at the polls. Last March, we spent many hours napping while waiting in vain for the voters to show up.
ReplyDeleteBut yesterday the voters were lined up around the block all day with no break in the action. At times they were waiting for more than a hour and it took us until 9:15 to close the polls. I didn't get home until after 11:00.
Part of the wait was because the ballot was soooooo loooooong and also because, of course, a lot of people don't know what they are supposed to do or where they are supposed to be: equals more paperwork and longer processing time.
But we had fun and the people thanked us for our contribution. We also get this really cool pin from the County (collect them all!)
Since I worked in OB, most people seemed interested in Fighting the Power (and yes, a lot of young people turned out) and I am sure they are disappointed today. Such is democracy. At least in America there is always next time.
Mondo
I don't think anyone was reading our blogs last night looking for election results. So don't worry, you were not part of the problem.
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