ELECTION DAY

OK, read this carefully please before you even think of posting on this. We're doing this because, despite all appearances to the contrary, your management team is actually made up of good, fair people who like most of you.

Like the polls, we will open this thread at 7 a.m. tomorrow. It will stay open until 7 a.m. Wednesday, then it is getting locked. Keep ALL discussion of elections and politics here.

This does NOT mean anything goes. Quite the contrary. This is something of a test. If you don't feel you can discuss the results in a civilized manner like an adult, please go away. We get one personal attack, one "outburst" from either side, just one of the type of posts that caused us to make a no politics rule in the first place, the locks go on and we'll not try our luck with it again.

There are people on both sides I worry about. Again, libs and conversatives: Be an adult. If you can't, stay the hell away.

We're also on the lookout for people who don't like this idea and will throw something up just to get it locked. Trust me on this, we're smart enough to know the difference. All that will do is get the post deleted. And the poster.

We realize this is a big deal. We want to be open and fair. We're taking bets on how long this will last. Please handle it and prove us wrong. Please.

 

Have at it - and behave. Let's see if we can pull this off.

Election Day is pretty low key around here. I'm going to go vote because I always do but I'll admit: I have no idea what or who is on the ballot this year. We have one of those congressmen who always wins against token opposition and I'm not certain anyone is running against him this time. It's a funny district. The previous congressman was a very popular Democrat who always won pretty easily. When he died, he was succeeded by a Republican who became very popular and always seems to win by the same margins.

 

Appreciate the appreciation, seriously, but thank the whole team. This was not a solo call by me.

 

I've paid very little attention because, as I've noted, nothing big going on here. And I have a deep belief, probably wrong, that it doesn't really matter. The party not in power always looks better but the reality is nothing changes (at least for me) based on which party is in power. Things sucked. The Democrats got control. Things still suck so the Republicans will get control. Things will continue to suck *** and on and on and on. Dems gloated two years ago. Repubs will gloat tonight. And nothing really changes.

But here's what threw me. I was under the impression that the Repubs were definitely taking back the Senate and maybe the House. Then I watch Today and the experts there seemed to be saying the House is msot likely to go Repub but the Senate may stay Dem.

So I'm more clueless than I thought.

I'll wake up tomorrow and carry on like I always do.