February 09, 2004
My prediction for the 2004 presidential race
by JeremyThis will be the year that hundreds of thousands of swing voters will not realize who they're going to vote for until they are standing in the booth. Something about the musty smell of that heavy red-white-and-blue curtain, the bead of sweat rolling down the forehead into the eye, the squeak of sneaker soles on the gymnasium floor, the infinite solitude of those fifty four cubic feet of American democracy will wake one up, will make one see things differently. There will be a vast scourge of voting in earnest and not wanting to talk about it to pollsters afterwards. This will help Kerry a little and Bush a lot. The result will be that the polls will show a tight race but Bush will prevail comfortably in the end. Chads will hang in darkened rooms -- limp, powerless, forgotten. Uh...but then again, who knows -- I may one day deny having meant any of this.
Footnote: Voting booth volume is my own estimate and, of course, does not take into account the wide variety of voting apparatus across the country. If shopping for a voting booth, check here for an economical model with the aforementioned red-white-and-blue curtain.
-Jeremy
I was thinking just the opposite. All the Dem voters from the last election will be voting for Kerry, all of the "disenfranchised" voters will take out their angst on Bush by voting for Kerry, and all the "My chad was hanging for Gore and they plucked it for Bush" half-wits in West Palm Beach will be sure to vote for "the right man" (No chad left behind!) which will give Flordia to Kerry. Bush was over 500,000 votes behind in the popular election and the swing states (Especially Florida) from 2000 are going to be critical in the election this time around. I predict that Bush loses Florida and ultimately the election... unless of course this whole "Kerry slept with an intern" rumor comes to fruition... (SIGH)
Posted by: Mike at February 13, 2004 01:16 PM
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