Yuck
I spent the entire yesterday tied to my toilet. I know that’s not the kind of thing I usually post here, but it’s my explanation for not having written a damn thing about the election. I don’t know for sure if it was food poisoning or just a terrible stomach virus, but it completely KO’d me. I was semi-conscious for most of the day. I managed to drag myself into a somewhat awake stance around 4:00pm pacific when the election coverage started. I had planned to spend the morning making phone calls at a MoveOn.org phone party. That got cancelled. I was finally able to eat a little soup today, but I haven’t been mentally “with it” enough to feel like I can add much to what everyone else is saying. I have some vague, rumbling thoughts in my brain, but it may take some time to get them into herded into a usuable form.
I am thrilled that Santorum lost. I’m thrilled that it looks like we’ve got the House and the Senate. When I went to bed last night, it didn’t look like it was going to pan out. McCaskill was down by 70,000 votes and the stem cell ballot initiative in Missouri was losing. Allen still had a lead in Virginia, though the pundits were saying that it was his strongholds that hadn’t yet come in with the votes. Montana was a toss up. It was damn nice to wake up and see things had gone our way and then get that confirmed when the AP called it for Webb in Virginia.
Then getting to watch Rumsfeld cut ‘n run just made my day.
