I Can't Go Anywhere.
This political year is going to do me in. Because for some reason I am physically incapable of ignoring it. It being all the pre-game hoopla.I managed to do this quite well in years past...when the HcQ was glued to (and yelling at) the telly, while I was snuggled up in my corner, jaded. So over politics. And now we've completely flip flopped. And I won't be able to get anything done if there's a TV in a ten-mile radius with people flapping about poll numbers, quarters of percentage points and campaign managers' hairstyles. I'm doomed.
Plus. Then. Once I get away from the magnetic power of my kitchen TV, everyone in my office wants to talk about it. And everyone has a different favorite candidate. The long-time always Democrat is for Paul. The independent is for Obama. The Republican is for Edwards. It's all so very confusing.
So what the heck? Why is this one so exciting? I read earlier that this is the first presidential election in 50 years that doesn't have an incumbent running, or a VP running. So, in other words, it's the first time in five decades that it's pretty wide open.
Anything could happen.
Anything. Like for instance, Anderson Cooper could follow anyone on Twitter.
Anderson. Oh Anderson. I go to my email box this morning, and there's a request from him to follow me. And I say, heck yes, he can follow me anywhere. And of course I'm now following him. Because he's fab. And funny.
So there's that.
But I'm not sure that's enough to make up for the amount of time I'm losing staple-gunned to the tube and the youtube and the twitter and the like.
Anyone else addicted? Do we need to start a support group? Because I think it's going to be a long year.
Edited to add: Karen just twittered this link quiz to select a candidate that best aligns with your views and opinions. You people are killing me.
Labels: Addiction, Anderson Cooper, Election
posted by Girl con Queso at 9:11 AM
6 Comments:
I'm a tech-addicted political junkie too - I can't get away from checking http://www.realclearpolitics.com ten times a day and this might help a little too: http://politweets.com/
Presidential elections do me in every year. I'm completely addicted to the energy of it, though not necessarily in a good way.
I don't want to raise a firestorm on your blog, GcQ, but I think the reason people are so ramped up about this election is that most people in America are really, really unhappy with the way the country is being run right now - across the board, Democrats, Republicans and ESPECIALLY Independents are really looking for something different, and now you have a dozen people out there all promising that and giving people hope. It's hard NOT to get addicted to that.
It's a really exciting time to be an American and to watch all this unfold.
Oh, and as for Anderson - isn't he just the bees knees? I want to go out drinking with him.
I am not addicted. I am stressed out! Calgon, take me away!
I, like you, got dennis kucinich, which is unfortunate because he is definately my favorite candidate, and seems to have little chance of actually getting nominated because people think he is a looney, which probably means that I'm a bit looney too. But anyway, the quiz told me that he's my guy.
I think it's so exciting because, according to Dave Barry, there are approximately 17,000 leading presidential contenders.
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