Aaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
Can someone explain what happened? Am I simply spending too much time on 'the internets', where the voices of sanity - Gibson, Soros, Jon Stewart, Michael Moore, Hunter Thompson and thousands of bloggers and posters - made anything other than a Kerry victory seem unlikely?
Are we all so much up our own asses here in cyberpolls that we just assumed that everyone with a mobile phone, everyone under 40, and everyone who logged on to the net at least once a day would get out there and make a big difference? It doesn't even look close. Bush seems to have won a huge part of the popular vote. Looking at the stats for some of the mid-west States there are now vast areas that you're not going to want to visit if you have any sort of liberal bone in your body.
Depressing? Wrist-slittingly so. Old Osama will be mighty glad, however. Another thousand recruits every day for the next four years.
Are we all so much up our own asses here in cyberpolls that we just assumed that everyone with a mobile phone, everyone under 40, and everyone who logged on to the net at least once a day would get out there and make a big difference? It doesn't even look close. Bush seems to have won a huge part of the popular vote. Looking at the stats for some of the mid-west States there are now vast areas that you're not going to want to visit if you have any sort of liberal bone in your body.
Depressing? Wrist-slittingly so. Old Osama will be mighty glad, however. Another thousand recruits every day for the next four years.
