Posted 11/01/2004 05:17:00 PM by Douglas

Voting in your local elections is infinitely more important than a national presidential election if you're concerned with things that are actually going to affect your daily life. Of course, they don't get the same amount of attention, but your local school board can't compete with the drama and dollars provided by the current presidential race. That being said, thank God it's over. Tomorrow, America flips a coin and chooses between Coke and Pepsi. Does it matter? No. Is there a dime's worth of difference between the two candidates? No. Not as their policies actually affect how you live your life.

But since bloggers are known for incensed rants without substitutive commentary, I'd be remiss if I didn't offer up my predictions for tomorrow's election. And, of course, for the court battles that are likely to ensue.

Kerry's got it.

The polls give most of the "undecided" vote to the challenger. Why? Because the incumbent had four years to make them "decided," that's why. It's like hitting a fork in a snow covered road with your mom in an '85 Oldsmobile. One way may be muddy as hell, but you know it's passable. The other might be better, but you just don't know 'till you get stuck up to your axles and are walking down the mud to the nearest farmhouse trying to get someone to come pull you out. Makes ya wish you'd have danced with what brung ya.

So the question is, do we go down the same road, or do take a chance? Then the question becomes, could it get any worse?

Of course, it could always get worse. We just don't know how yet.

I still say it's going to get worse with Kerry, and the Florida of 2004 is going to be Ohio. Of course, if I'm wrong, I'll delete this post from an already embarrassing blog, and put up a picture of a cat or something instead. But for tonight, why don't we all go watch PBS and see just how pathetic both candidates reallyare on Frontline. Who knows, I just might have something to say tomorrow.