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Originally Posted by dissention
I'd make like Brit Hume's son and stick a gun in my mouth.
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Believe me, there are times I've been tempted!
Seriously, though, this has been a very ironic year for me...
First, Bush gets reelected, and I'm ready to pack up and move to Canada. Instead, we end up moving down here (the middle of Bush country) because my husband, who was laid off from his job 3 years ago, has been working a consulting contract down here for over a year, which he expects to last several more months. (He had been unable to find anything up North.) Since I was able to get a transfer with my job, we made the move. Then within 2 weeks after moving here, the project my husband is supposed to work on gets cancelled, and there's no other work for him, so the company ends his contract! We also discover, thanks to an article forwarded to us by a friend, that the town we chose to live in is one of the top 5 most conservative cities in the U.S.!
So it's really no surprise to me that we were visited by the old biddy yesterday, and I fully expect plenty more of that before the election.
On the upside, I did find a Democrats group, and attended a meeting Saturday. I had to introduce myself during the meeting, and when I joked that I was at the meeting to meet the other 3 Democrats in the area, I was chastised and informed that there were actually 68,000 Dems in the county that had voted in the last election. Considering that I'm from Chicago, that doesn't sound like a lot. But, it was about 67,990 more than I thought there were in my county!
I also got to meet the Democratic Congressional candidate for my district, that will be running in 2006. I was pretty impressed, and think he may actually have a shot at winning.