Late Night Electionwatching
If this election ends up going on for weeks, I’m going to feel really stupid for having stayed up all night tonight to see the result. But I’m superstitious about going to bed with a critical situation on the line, ever since I slept through the Phillies’ collapse in Game 4 of the 1993 World Series.
But I need sleep.
So let me keep myself awake by quoting some stuff Michael Totten wrote on Instapundit today:
I’d add, in what may be the final hours of the 2004 campaign, that if you’ve promised to leave the country if this election doesn’t go your way, please keep your promise. Let me enjoy Bush’s hypercapitalist theocracy, Kerry’s surrender to al Qaeda and the European Union, or whatever your favorite Chicken Little fantasy is, in peace.If George W. Bush wins the election, the world will still spin on its axis. Canada will not grant you asylum. If John Kerry wins the election, America will still be America. Australia will not grant you asylum.
People who vote for the other guy aren’t stupid, brainwashed, or evil. They are your friends and family. Someone you love will almost certainly cancel your vote.
If, by some chance, everyone you know votes for the loser it won’t mean the election was stolen. It will only show that you live in a bubble.