Funny, as I’m monitoring all networks including CNN, Fox and PBS as well as NPR, I see that everyone is handing the election to Bush. But, as I write this, here in Michigan only 71% of precincts are reporting 51% for Kerry and 48% for Bush.
Have we learned nothing from the 2000 election? The exit polls looked good and historically have been accurate, except for the 2000 election. We all went to bed thinking Gore won and woke up with a big suprise on our hands. Already I hear rumblings of contests, challanges and recounts in Ohio. The media on all networks, including NPR and PBS is calling Ohio the new Florida as I write this. So, the stage is being set.
The media has done nothing different this time. They started projecting hours and hours before polls closed. They started calling a winner months ago when they fed the fear machine. If Bush takes this election, it will be based upon nothing more than fear. Fear of terror, fear of loosing ground in Iraq, and fear of God, perhaps, as well.
My fears run far deeper and more personal than all of that. Let’s hope that we all read this in the morning with another kind of suprise.
Finally, thank you to all of you who have worked so hard for change. Thank you for your couragous effort to make a wrong right again. Thank you for being willing to face ignorance and fear with intelligence and fearlessness. You are my heroes and you know who you all are.