Spectator sports

For some reason, the closer we get to November 7th the more concerned I get about the outcome of this election. If you'd asked me a month ago, I would have told you the Democrats were going to retake both houses in a rout. They had the momentum and the drive, from what I was seeing and the Republicans just kept giving them gift after gift after gift all the way up to the Mark Foley scandal. For the last two weeks, the GOP can't help but stumble on their tougne whenever they open their collective mouths. And the president seems to be living in some weird alternate universe where clouds are made of cotton candy and any problems just float away on the wind.

But it seems like the tide is starting to shift a little closer to the middle to the point that, I'm not entirely sure the Dems are going to manage to pull it off. I'll give them that they're more than likely to retake the House. In the last week, the number of vulnerable seats went from somewhere around 18 to 40 depending on who you talk to. Out of all those seats, you'd think that somewhere there's 16 seats for the Dems to pick up. But the Senate... That's whole other thing to peer into and divine the future.

While I do love football (yes, Megan, I do) my first love as far as spectator sports go is politics. And, after following it for the last two decades or so, I think I got a prett good feel for it. I have my list of races to watch and I'm taking the night off because I figure, one way or another, I'm going to end up drunk. My love of politics actually came from the speech Ann Richards gave at the 1988 convention. I remember watching it on television and just being glued to the set, watching her and thinking that I was missing something and I desperately wanted to know all about it. After that moment, I followed every presidential election and I honestly couldn't wait for my first chance to actually cast a vote. I think, in some small part, watching the political trends over the years had a hand in how I deal with people. Jason and a few others claim it's just the evil side of me. I wouldn't qualify it as evil, just devious. And that's how I can tell people with some air of certainty that the democrats had no hand in busting open the Mark Foley case. If they had, trust me, they wouldn't have let it run wild over the land until around now. At this point, just two weeks away from election day, there would have been no way in hell the GOP would have been able to circle the wagons or hold any kind of comittee meetings about it prior to the election, which would have just made them look even more like scam artists trying to ignore or cover up the whole mess. And if definately would have halted a few people from out and out campaigning and that would have been an even better hit to the gut for the majority.

So, here I am, hoping that the Democrats manage to keep going strong and not fall into the more obvious traps the Republicans have set up for them and, for the love of the gods KEEP HOWARD DEAN QUIET!!!