I’ve decided to spare everyone the trouble of reading daily installments of my internal debate over the election. Instead, I’m storing all my thoughts in a nice file that I’ll drop like a bomb on this blog on Monday. Every day presents new reasons why I shouldn’t vote for one presidential candidate or the other, which makes the decision all the more, um … entertaining. Yeah, that’s a word, all right.<\/p>\n
For what it’s worth, I think I know who I’m voting for. My internal polling is running about 51-48 (with 1 percent suggesting I just blow off the whole thing). That’s enough for me to think I’m likely to vote the way I’m feeling now — but there’s always the chance of some last-moment revelation\/gaffe that could change that, or some reasoned argument I stumble across altering my decision. I don’t think so, but …<\/p>\n
Speaking of which, is it my imagination, or have the “Bush is a dolt \/ fiend \/ criminal \/ lunatic \/ idjit \/ puppet \/ danger” folks been in a full court press over the last week or two? Maybe it’s been because I’ve been avoiding explicitly political sites, for the most part, but a lot of the non-explicitly-political sites have been doing a lot <\/em>more Bush-bashing. That’s certainly their prerogative, but it still feels a bit odd (especially given the polls) — and, in marked contrast, assuming that is their political bent, I’ve seen very little Kerry-supporting<\/em> on those same sites. Which I can also understand, but it does lend itself to the idea that Daffy Duck or Boris Badinov could run for president and folks would support him over Bush …<\/p>\n Anyway, more Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve decided to spare everyone the trouble of reading daily installments of my internal debate over the election. 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