This is the thread where you are tired of the 2004 US election campaign

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No matter how important it is for you. No matter how crucial it is for you. No matter what you are doing to get the word out or recruit for one side or another. No matter if you think the local initiatives or the like you're voting are extremely important. No matter if you're voting on a tight senatorial race in a swing state. No matter about any of that.

Just talk about how tired you are of everything and anything and the whole goddamn thing and how no matter WHAT happens on election day you'll be glad that the whole near-yearlong buildup is finally at long last over.

I've not seen one TV ad or heard one radio ad and I'm tired beyond words.

SO TIRED.

Thank you.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

word

― tremendoid, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not so much tired of the campaign (like you, haven't seen any ads, haven't been polled, only watched part of one of the debates), but I am very tired of constant repetitive media dissection of every aspect of the campaign and all things vaguely tied to it. Sometimes I think there's just too much media.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

The irony of this thread is, we all want to be talking about something else.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Swift Vote Betterings For A Less Retarded Society

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Blue in the face.

Ned FOTM

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't watch TV news or really read the newspaper or listen to the radio, so I'm not sure why I feel so oversaturated by media attention to the campaign.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

That's why I wonder how people who *do* regularly watch TV etc keep their sanity. Tivo can only block so much.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't been able to listen to NPR for more than 15 minutes at a time since spring.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://doors.stanford.edu/~sr/legolas/legolas.jpg

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

As the man said, DAMMMNNN. (This coulda been decided in February!)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

man, somebody has got to start a "this is the thread where you will predict what posts will make it to the excelsior threads"

what a snorefest

sorry wrong thread

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?q=kephm

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I would just take a long nap from now until election day but it would be a shame to miss Halloween.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude I would miss Halloween if it meant I could not have to deal with the rest of October. Like October + Tuesdays is the worst thing ever, my biorhythms do NOT gel with that shit. Ugh. Ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Has anyone browsed through a bookstore lately? Goddamned everything on display is political punditry. I stopped off at an airport bookstore before a long flight last week - I decided I would rather watch 50 First Dates* than try to find a book that wouldn't piss me off. I just looked at the store and was too tired to even look.

(*and it was kinda cute!)

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i dont follow nickalicious. three of those four are ilx links, whoa

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just had too much coffee my mang. Pay no heed.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

For posterity's sake, here's suhmore:

http://images.google.com/images?q=%5C%22ned+raggett%5C%22
http://images.google.com/images?q=TOMBOT
I also did one on 'teeny' but I am NOT linking THOSE search results.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now there is so much self-reinforcing feedback loopage concerning red fish vs. blue fish in the media that election day will bring the end to nothing whatsoever. Regardless of whether Kerry or Bush wins, or whether the winner's election is disputable or indisputable, what we've seen in the last few months will probably become the next four year's comfort level.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

WILD in the streets
Wild
Wild
WILD in the streets...

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

But some men are chosen from the rest
But their disappointment runs with their guests
Never would be invited to the funeral rosegarden

― kephm (kephm), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not so much tired of the campaign as I am anxious about the results. And I can't decide if, now that I have my ballot, if actually voting will relieve the anxiety a bit or just make it worse. (Even though in Oregon we got our ballots on Friday, I tend to wait until Election Day proper to drop them off.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i FINALLY finished my ballot, thanks to the obfuscated language of several ballot measures & proposals.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

har har nza. we did a thread on google image search/ilx names once.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now there is so much self-reinforcing feedback loopage concerning red fish vs. blue fish in the media that election day will bring the end to nothing whatsoever.

the media doesn't know what to do because the polls give them no answers. if the polls are wrong and one candidate wins decisively (3-4 points), things may be very different after election day.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Which ones confused you? (Not to be presumptuous, but may I strongly recommend voting No on measures 35, 36, 37, and 38, and the Multnomah County tax repeal. The marijuana and forestry measures are a bit more in the air, and neither will probably pass. The procedural ones, such as what to do if a candidate dies, seem OK for voting Yes on.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Let's face it, Bush is going to win and we are all going to be so damn envious of the canadians. As per usual. My neighboorhood is full of Bush signs on lawns. ALso on the lawns are dead cars and stupid lawn ornaments and beer cans.

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 19:53 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a sign, perhaps.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been sick on and off from the past two weeks and I am really tired of it. Plus, I am in the process of moving. I am SO ready for the holidays.

― k3rry (dymaxia), Wednesday, 20 October 2004 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Um...Go Sox!

― aimurchie, Wednesday, 20 October 2004 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Why be envious of Canadians, it's duller than fuck up here. Made even worse by constant saturation coverage of an election we can't even fucking vote in.

― dave q, Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Which ones confused you?

'scool, already finished my ballot earlier. thanks, tho.

― Sir Kingfish Beavis D'Azzmonch (Kingfish), Thursday, 21 October 2004 02:07 (twenty-one years ago)

From the Chicago Sun-Times Red Eye (shitty tabloid) today:
57 - Percentage of votes that John Kerry got on Nickelodeon's Web site in a race against George Bush. The poll by Nickelodeon has correctly chosen the past four presidents.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 21 October 2004 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Get that shit off here! I don't care if it's quixotic good news.

I am in the middle of planning a huge shop launch and new art prize launch which happens next Thursday and it's pure mentalism.

― suzy (suzy), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

i am not tired of it, in fact i am already worrying about post-election depression. not because i think that bush will win, but because all of the excitment will be over for FOUR WHOLE YEARS! it is so sad. the only thing i am tired of is this baseball hoopla stealing news coverage from the campaign!!!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Thursday, 21 October 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I prefer dullness to danger

― Mike Hanle y 3000 (hanle y 3000), Friday, 22 October 2004 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

you live in maine now, mike? that's a BLUE state, right?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 22 October 2004 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Whoops. i seem to have started a slightly more violence-friendly version of this thread here....

BRING ON NOVEMBER 3!!!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 22 October 2004 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Um...Go Sox!

What I have loved about the last week's baseball -- apart from the fucking Red Sox beating the fucking Yankees, arroooooo! -- is that it has totally distracted me from the campaign. I'm so over all of it that I don't even wanna watch The Daily Show, because I don't wanna know how stupid they're all being. So I'm counting on the World Series distracting me through Halloween. I'm done worrying about the election until it actually happens.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Friday, 22 October 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Election fatigue is for the WEAK!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Friday, 22 October 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

DAMMMNNN

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

you live in maine now, mike? that's a BLUE state, right?

Maine, like Nebraska, splits their electoral votes. Southern Maine is pretty solidly blue, but northern Maine swings. In total, we only get 4 votes, so it's not a huge deal either way.

― C0L1N B3CK3TT (Colin Beckett), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

constant saturation coverage of an election we can't even fucking vote in.
constant saturation coverage of an election we can't even fucking vote in.
constant saturation coverage of an election we can't even fucking vote in.
constant saturation coverage of an election we can't even fucking vote in.
constant saturation coverage of an election we can't even fucking vote in.

Thought that bore repeating a few times.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Although I know it is none of your fault.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 22 October 2004 12:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm looking forward to not having to hear my boss go on about how bad Democrats are, especially after his statement this afternoon re: how the Democrats are making up the story re: Republican voter registration shenanigans.

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

thirteen years pass...

Dick Cheney
On Iraq, Senator Kerry has disagreed with many of his fellow Democrats. But Senator Kerry's liveliest disagreement is with himself. (Applause, whooping, chanting.)

Dick Cheney
(Chuckles.)

AUDIENCE MEMBER
Flip flop.

Dick Cheney
His back-and-forth reflects a habit of indecision and sends a message of confusion. And it's all part of a pattern. He has, in the last several years, been for the No Child Left Behind Act and against it.

AUDIENCE MEMBER
Flip flop.

Dick Cheney
He has spoken in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement and against it. He is for the Patriot Act and against it.

AUDIENCE MEMBERS
Flip flop! Flip flop!

― had (crüt), Monday, 2 April 2018 04:03 (seven years ago)

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