First time voter, and first diary!
This campaign season has been a wild ride. I've been hanging on to it more and more since it began, watching every situation change and shift, whittling down to these last few weeks. By hanging in, of course, I mean checking TPM, HuffingtonPost, and Digg every hour, and even spending days at a time on dKos. And this is the final stretch, the home stretch. The bases are loaded, and I am sick and tired of horse race metaphors. I have a feeling that this campaign will be one for the textbooks, and, and the thing is, we're not even in the general election yet! Wow!
So, why am I so afraid about tomorrow?
I volunteered for the Obama campaign in New Hampshire, in Keene and Manchester, helping out mostly with computer stuff and such. (I have become a master of Excel, or as it's called on Linux, Spreadsheet.) However, in the end...I can recall standing there, at the 'Victory' rally in Nashua, watching as Clinton climbed up from behind to first place.
There's more...(If you're not bored yet. =P)
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