I'm going to watch Kerry concede, and then I'm going to turn the TV off of the news and decompress for a few days... I might even go see a movie...
This blog has been very politically intensive over the past month especially, but really since its inception I've been a political writer first and an observational writer second. I'm still a political person, but I'm sure, for a while, politics will drop off a bit. Just not sure what the character will be, but the blog will go on!
Thanks to the many people who complimented me on my election night blogging. I really felt like I was just copying and pasting, but it IS interesting to go back and read it and see the way the tenor changed through out the night. This wasn't 2000, and you could see the direction it was going.
It smarts a little. I was telling a friend today that, when Clinton was in office, I was politically aware but not necessarily politically active. 2000 was really the first election that I'd given myself a personal stake in. Because of the dubiousness of the election, it was very easy to feel some vindication in the idea that Bush wasn't reasonable and legitimate. You can't do that now, and to have a personal stake in a loss like this kinda stings.
I'll probably write a post-mortem as to what happened to the democratic party and where the campaign went wrong. I've had some criticisms already, so I'll probably revisit some of them, and bring in some new info. The long and short of it is this: Karl Rove had his finger on the pulse of the American psyche much more strongly than I gave him credit for. To have understood that Moral/Social issues would take a front seat to the Economy and the War is unbelievable to me, but it seems to be the case. Seems there are two Americas, and they are thinking about totally different things.
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