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4 years ago a week from today, what was your day like?
I went home from work thinking Kerry had won -- reports of record voter turnout, exit polls positive. The rest of the evening was a slow death that ended with me on the living room floor with the lights off curled in the fetal position and crying at the specter of 4 more years of Bush. H, then bf, came home at midnight and was like WTF is wrong with you? God I hope this year is different.
Re: 4 years ago a week from today, what was your day like?
I honestly cannot remember for the life of me what I was doing. I must have blocked it out. I do remember I was devastated.
More than likely I was hanging out at a friends house drinking to take away the pain
I was in the process of moving to Boston. My actual "drive to Boston" date had been delayed until Election Day because I'd gotten the flu. As I drove through Western Mass, all of the radio shows were saying Kerry had won. It sounded soooooooo positive.
Once I arrived in Cambridge, my hubz (bf at the tiem) and I watched, stunned, as the tv pundits started talking about how wrong the exit polls had been. We considered going to the "victory rally" at Copley Square, as they waited out the results. But it was about 4 degrees.
Sad.
Just an ordinary day expecting Bush to win. I just couldn't see any way Kerry was going to take that election.
Unfortunately this year I will probably be crying the entire night as the results come in favor of Obama.
I remember 2000 very vividly though. I went to a bar with some friends to watch the results (I live in DC, so this is normal behavior). At some point I got tired and went home with boyfriend. I tried to stay up and watch the TV, but he told me to go to bed, and I'd find out the results when I woke up the next morning. He was up before me, so the first thing I did was ask him "Who won?" Hahahaha... if only we'd known.
I went to the gym and watched the exit polls from the treadmill. Ted Kennedy was practically gushing about what a good president Kerry would be.
The next day my professor had a hard time getting everyone to focus. I even had a Kerry Edwards screensaver on my laptop that I didn't remove until Kerry finally conceded. Everyone was depressed. I ate half a dozen cookies at a meeting that day to cheer myself up.
It wasn't quite as bad as the slow torture of 2000 though.
I remember voting in the morning before work and waiting in a long line. When we left the polling station, I said to my husband, "I feel like, if Kerry wins, tomorrow when we wake up, the sun will be shining and the whole world will just feel better." I stayed up until 1:00 in the morning watching the election, then went to bed. PA and Ohio hadn't been called yet.
I woke up at 4:00 to the sound of thunderstorms and I knew then the election didn't go as hoped.
I don't remember what station I was watching, but I never heard any of this election poll business until a day or two later. I don't know what planet I was on...but I just didn't hear any of it. I think I was too depressed to read the news for a couple of days.
OK, so I totally misunderstood the post title. I missed the "week from today" part.
I drove a couple of friends to the polls sometime close to the end of voting. It was my first time ever voting in person, so that was exciting. We waited until 6 p.m. to go load up on booze (you can't buy it while the polls are open in Indiana). A friend of mine from out of town arrived, and we went to watch the results at another friend's place because I didn't have a TV. He had two TVs set up, and a bunch of law students were in his apartment with our laptops. My friend visiting felt like he's just arrived at the nerd convention (which, let's face it, he had). I remember getting drunk and sad. It was looking about 95% likely that Kerry had lost, so I went to bed.
I will never forget the next day, though. My friend who was visiting is gay, and a number of states had just passed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. We were eating lunch, and he looked at me and said, "All those states just told me I'm a second class citizen. That fuucking hurts." I haven't talked to him in a couple of years, but I will never forget the look on his face when he said that. Heartbreaking.
I liked Bush but thought Kerry would've done an alright job as well. I don't know if I stayed up to watch the results, but upon Bush's win I had mixed feelings. Sure, I had voted for him, but on the other hand I was so freakin sick of the Bush hate on NYU's campus.
For that reason (sick of the republican-hate), I'm kind of looking forward to Obama winning. I just hope he doesn't get a fillabuster-proof congress like moveon.org is pushing for. I think any one party having that much power is playing with fire.
I woke up, excited, voted early, etc. DH (then fiance) and I went to IHOP for breakfast after voting. I wore my College Dems shirt and a slew of Kerry Edwards stickers.
Through the day, it got worse. By night time, DH and I got into bed. I screamed a cried, and my roommate (we were in apts) knocked on my door to ask what was wrong. I told her I couldn't speak to her (Bush voter) for awhile.
The next day, I went to class with a heavier heart than September 12, 2001.
I need a different outcome this time.
I like ESF's the best - it's like a movie where thunderstorms foretell the bad guy entering stage right.
I woke up optimistic. On my way to work I saw at least double the Kerry signs and bumper stickers and even though I knew my state would go blue, I took it as a positive sign. I remember the exit polls looking good all day, and then I came home and turned on the TV and opened up my laptop to msnbc.com.
Mr.P (we had just moved in together) threw on Kings of Comedy - he refused to watch the returns. I could not concentrate on the movie at all, I still can't recall a single joke. While we were "watching", msnbc.com showed it starting to fall apart.
I fell asleep on the couch with Ohio and maybe a few others left to be called. I woke up at like 2 am, saw the outcome, and went to bed.
I walked in to work the next morning to find a giant "W" written on my white board by my boss ("four more years"). Luckily the rest of the office was in as serious a depression as I was.
Less than a month later I had to travel to Ohio. That was a state line that was difficult to cross. I held them responsible and felt a viceral reaction to being there physically.
I only have two memories from '00 - actually casting my vote for Nader in the University Union, and gathering in someone's dorm room for the returns. Eventually we were distracted when it wasn't being called and found something else to do. I don't remember the long battle at. all. I don't even remember the gay marriage prop being on the ballot. I was a very self-absorbed college freshman!
I was on my honeymoon in Costa Rica and had voted via absentee ballot. I didn't like Kerry at all, but was disgusted with Bush's handling of all things post-9/11, so I grudgingly supported Kerry, thinking that at least things couldn't get worse.
I woke up early, raced to the closest internet cafe (DH was still sleeping), logged onto CNN.com, and spent the next two days in a funk. Bush winning in '04 seriously ruined part of my honeymoon.
I remember feeling dread as I went to bed at around 1am (west coast). I was really hoping to wake up to good news and didn't sleep very well.
Turned on the tv the moment I woke up (I never watch it in the am) and was just heartbroken. I didn't cry, but I was pretty down all day.
One thing I do remember is talking to my girlfriend who'd just gotten married a few months earlier. She said that the election results seriously made her reconsider having kids. She said she couldn't imagine raising them in a world that elected W twice. To be fair, this was not her only reason.
4 years later, she's still on the fence!
H and i were just talking about this trying like hell to remember where we were and what we were doing.
i was in florida covering the election, thinking it was going to be 2000 redux and i would be in on the big story. florida of course, was solid red territory and unfortunately for me, the drama was in ohio. i ended up hanging out with a friend in miami the day after the election because i didn't have any real work to do. go figure.
I remember vividly. ?I was just cleaning out the last of my apartment since my lease was up the next day, and I hadn't finished moving everything to my new house. ?I rushed home from work which was over an hour away that day and voted. ?I used it as an excuse to let people out early
Then I packed up the last of the junk and drove to my new home. ?Then my roommates and I watched, depressed . It was a good bonding moment for us.?
I went to vote when the polls opened, because I had an early morning meeting scheduled. I waited in line for almost an hour to vote.
After voting I was walking down the stairs out of the elementary school when the elderly woman behind me lost her balance and fell down the remaining 7 stairs taking me with her. Fortunately I broke her fall, and she was essentially unscathed. I managed to take all of the skin off of my palms and knees (was wearing a skirt). I couldn't bend my legs without pain for days, and still have scars on my knees. Bush winning made the experience all the more painful!
My husband was at that point my boyfriend, and had been sent by his employer to spend the last 2 weeks of the campaign working for one of their clients in Utah who was in a tough Congressional race. I had to pick him up from Dulles on election night, so I drove out there, bloody knees and all, while listening to the results.