Lol - article describes most of our feelings - Pre-election anxiety high

[unfrigginreal]

By JOE ACHENBACH, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - Americans are in the grip of a monster case of Pre-Election Anxiety Disorder. No one is talking about voter apathy anymore, because the opposite is more likely the case. People care too much. They're losing sleep. They're having bad dreams about unfavorable tracking polls.

PEAD worsens as Election Day approaches and it's a 50-50 country and there's a war going on and people are dying and the talking heads are howling and the polls come firing at your head like fastballs. It's too close to call, too close, too close, we know the whole thing could pivot with the slightest breeze, that nothing is too trivial now, that even the slightest verbal gaffe by a candidate or his wife or one of the daughters could have a butterfly effect on world history.

Lawsuits are flying as we speak, and the election may come down to a single precinct in Winter Haven or Deland or Immokalee, followed by the soon-to-be-traditional Recount, the dueling press conferences, James A. Baker flying to Tallahassee, and a final and definitive verdict by Nino Scalia.

Laura Auerbach, a Democrat and the director of a Washington research foundation, finds herself struggling with her emotions as E-Day gets closer. She hates the president. He's a "horrible" man, she says. She sent an e-mail to a friend: "I never feel like such a bad person as I do when I'm talking about Bush. He is so hateful he makes me hate."

http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1768431p-8053857c.html

[northernsoul]

1. ok, so I'm not the only one...

seriously, I'm having a hard time keeping my brain on top of my daily responsibilities lately. Right now I'm blowing off homework to obsessively monitor and post at DU.

[seabeyond]

2. AH HA HA HA ah hahah

i am going to email this to my husband. especially that last line

I never feel like such a bad person as I do when I'm talking about Bush. He is so hateful he makes me hate."

[sr_pacifica]

3. My therapist has been noticing heightened stress in her clients

for the past several months and she has been saying all along that the election is a big part of it.

This is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. We don't have our heads buried in the sand on this one.