Tomorrow is a voting day and a blogging day. As you probably know, I've accepted getting ensconced in a coffeehouse with a couple dozen political bloggers.
It's funny. I described it to a colleague today, and he just couldn't understand what we could possibly write if all we were doing was watching TV like everybody else. Everyone is watching the same thing, so what are you writing? I had to say, you know, I don't even think about that. I always figure there will be something for me to see and describe that will be different.
But it's a good question. Fortunately, I'm not letting that good question spook me. At the very least, I'll be able to observe the other bloggers.
You know it's very strange to be stuck in a room on election night with people who have different preferences. I'm thinking CNN has a secret plan for us. Of course, they are saying that they want to use our text, our insights. And it's easy to see that we add a hip, cool edge for them. And, of course, we'll all link, essentially to ourselves, and send traffic to their site.
But there's this other thing. We're rats in a cage. We are being subjected to an experiment.
We're very passionate folk, we might kind of hate each other, and the inflow of election results will stress us out. The night will wear on. Who knows how we will act? And CNN's cameras will be trained on us the whole time. I know I'm going to be scrutinizing the scene and describing and commenting. But I'm also one of the scrutinized. What's that going to be like? I've been trying to picture it. And, basically, I'm prepared.
But I'm also relying on you, dear readers. Comment. Email. Give me tips on things to blog about and let me know how my little cage looks from out there.
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Bring a taser. There's no telling what the moonbats might do when they see the results going against them....
Remember, keep up that sublime Althouse moisterization regime, for the camera will be on you, especially if you sock Kos in the nose! (jus' hoping on the if-come!)
If you really want to know what's going on, you should be checking out Tradesports.com
There is real money behind that, so it will be 20 times more accurate than any exit polls.
Right now it is predicting a Democratic House and a Republican Senate. Boring, but probably right.
Watch CNN? That's a brutal requirement.
Remember, to advance your commentary, to stand in the front middle with a 3/4 pose for the group picture.
The new thing is to care passionately and be right-wing. Blog about that.
When (if) the news of Santorum's defeat comes in, think of me!
Personally, I think the Republicans are going to do even worse than the polls predict. I expect Republican voter turnout to be low; there just isn't any reason to be enthusiastic about those guys. I think both houses will flip. And then flip back in 2008.
My only thought is that you should be objective but that doesn't mean you should be neutral. I see those as similar but not identical qualities. To me, objective means you can realistically observe what's happening and fairly evaluate it. However, once you form an opinion based on your observations, I think you should share that opinion rather than try to remain a neutral observer. At that point, be spontaneous. Talk about what impresses you whether it's based on substance, appearances, an interesting turn of phrase, whatever.
Of course, you aren't shy about offering your opinions so this falls under the category of useless advice.
I'd like to know what you overhear in the hallways and while visiting the toilet. Not that you'd say anything on camera about that. But, as blog tidbits...? Are the CNN house people drinking the Kossack Kool-Aid? Are they really sitting in the home team's bleachers quietly rooting for the away team? Are they vain or supercilious? Are they just talking heads who don't know much about nothing? Heh! I guess my Halloween mask is in the trash.
Seriously... This election is all about the Iraq war and whether we cut and run or stay the course. Everything else people mention is just a cover. I hope every exit interview on video puts the war question directly to the voter. And, I'm going to watch their eyes when they answer.
Sheep being herded into a room. Being ensnared in CNN's trap.
Cogs caught in the machinery of CNN bureaucracy.
And, you're on their property. They can do whatever they want with you.
They even have the right to confiscate your laptop....and then you're nothing.
What would you do then?
Peace, Maxine
I just put my instigator hat on. What if you, as a black-sheep Democrat, were to interview, via blog or on-camera, the two major black-sheep Democratic candidates -- Joe Lieberman and Jim Webb?
Hey, the Fonz was scared too before he got on those waterski's-but he jumped that shark. And so will you.
I think Gahrie's probably right. The Democrat cintingent is going to blow a gasket if they don't win - and not only if they don't win, but if they don't win big. They've convinced themselves that tommorow is going to be a bloodbath, and while I think that the GOP is going to lose the House, I think the Dems are going to get some nasty surprises in Washington and Maryland.
The more I think about it, the more I think that on some practical level, a bloodbath in the House combined with comfortable GOP victory in the Senate would be the best case scenario; if that happens, it will be much harder for the Dems to claim that the election was rigged, a claim that will be floated the instant any Republican candidate in a right Senate race looks to be ahead. Of course, I might be biased, because I can live with losing the House...
Advance the ethnic interests of your people. Bring beer. Lots of beer.
Don't forget: I'll pay money for an on-air mention of "Sippican Cottage."
Baba-booey.
Hip and cool edge...mmmmph!
I was #88 at the polling place this morning, at 7:30. Quite a line. Not as long as the Presidential election, but it did remind me of the year Feingold beat Neumann -- because of heavy turnout in Dane County
I was #11 at 6:10am. Three precincts vote at the school I was at and all had lines.
There were a couple of Democrats doing some last minute campaigning just outside the 100 foot line and there were getting shot down on a regular basis.
As for tonight - if someone brings up the 'support the troops, not the war' - how about a plug for Project Valour-IT and Soldiers Angels and ask them to put their money where their mouth is?
Derve,
I've already explained that I'm content - although not exactly happy - to lose the House, because the House has no role to play in the issue that dominates my concern in this election, which is what kind of judges (and Justices) are nominated and concerned. The fact is that your side is going to go absolutely batshit if you don't win the House, because you've built it up in your minds, so you know, whatever. And frankly, Pelosi just doesn't have the guts to halt this war in the only way that she can with control only of the House, so if you want the House, if that's what it's going to take to lance the boil of anger that the kossacks represent, go for it.
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