Leading the Horse to Water.

Well, it's fifteen days until the first big election of the millennium. The American voter is behaving as if they were wildebeest, crossing the Nile--one wants to be on one bank or the other, but the watery route to the day after the election is fraught with crocs...
I don't think, really, there are many undecided voters left. Oh, people may say they are, but they are lying. I just think people are tired of being harangued by candidates and their supporters.

This has been the worst election I have ever seen--and I have seen a few. The polarisations in this election are extreme, and do not bode well for the country post-election time when, normally, the American people would close ranks behind a new President, giving him the benefit of the doubt. I just do not see that happening this time--the flesh has been lacerated a little too deeply to just kiss and make up.

Voters have peculiarly long memories about certain things. One is mucking about with the voting priviledge itself, as was done in Florida; another is the taxation question.
Americans hate being made to look stupid, too. Unfortunately, when you get someone in the Oval Office with a less-than-normal intelligence level, this outcome is to be expected. Bush doesn't need Kerry to make him look bad---he is doing a fine job of it all on his own.
So, in just a little while, the wise will be confounded, and the American voter will have his say. I hope that this time, it is a voice that will not be stilled by the Supreme Court.
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