Finish this sentence: You know you are a political junkie when -

[jillan]

My answer - when you've heard all of their stories 10x already!

[Yael]

1. You spend Saturday night glued to C-Span

[jillan]

4. ...and enjoying every minute of it!

[Renew Deal]

21. and DU

Yep!

[TwilightGardener]

2. ...When you're posting on a political forum at 10:30 on a Saturday night.

How effin' sad is that? LOL!

[jillan]

10. And you're not alone!

[mzmolly]

12. Even sadder at

10:45 :P

[TwilightGardener]

17. LOL! Gettin' more pathetic by the hour!

[mzmolly]

19. Indeed!

It's now after 11PM! EEK. ;)

[gateley]

3. Listening to Pelosi drone you find yourself thinking she sounds a little like Debbie Reynolds. nt

[jillan]

5. -----

:rofl:

[Auntie Bush]

6. You're on DU till 1:00 in the morning.

Also when you are listening to C-SPAN now.

[sandnsea]

7. You buy ice cream

in preparation for the JJ Dinner, so you can feel more like you're there. lol.

[Gregorian]

8. You tell the cashier at the grocery store that we need a voter paper trail.

[Gregorian]

11. You know your state's deadline for filing presidential primary petitions.

This could be a great thread!

[merwin]

20. Even the grocery store has a paper trail, why can't our elections!

[givemebackmycountry]

9. Oh, I like this:

You know you are a political junkie when -

You watch more CSPAN than anyone else that you know.

You recognize members of the House and the Senate before they show their names.

Watching the "Situation Room" "Tucker" and "Hardball" make your blood pressure increase while "Countdown" is somehow refreshing.

On Sunday mornings you turn from talk fest to talk fest cursing your television.

Anytime a political story breaks you rush to a computer to see what DU is saying.

You are still mad about 2000 and even madder about 2004.

The list is endless.

[Irishonly]

14. That's So True

Also, you don't worry about the looks you get when you tell people you watch CSpan and go the the House and Senate sites to find out information.

[Nutmegger]

13. When you change your appointments so they don't conflict with the JJ Dinner.

Totally worth it.

[OKDem08]

15. It affects others aspect of your life, too

entertainment: saw Lions for Lambs movie tonight (bravo!)

food: Stephen Colbert Americone Dream ice cream my new favorite : )

AND you just kinda shake it off when you have the occasional thought that...maybe this is becoming too much of a preoccupation

[NJCher]

16. When your betting consists of

Laying odds on the next political sex scandal instead of some action in the arena of professional football.



Cher

[alfredo]

18. You still have your 1992 Clinton Gore Sticker on your car.

[NanceGreggs]

22. You know you're a pol junkie when ...

Every time anyone says anything to you, you connect it to a politician, e.g. "That is so Obama," "That is too Biden," "That is so totally Hillary."

Your first thought when someone says or does something obnoxious is: "Must be a Republican."

You check DU one last time before you go to bed at 3:00 a.m., because maybe something important happened since the last time you checked at 2:56 a.m.

[Enrique]

23. when you can name more than two people running for president

seriously, that's a pretty narrow group.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

24. When you know what "remember October 8th" means (and an old pol junkie at that)

[ginchinchili]

25. When you keep telling yourself to give the political blogs a break...

and your "break" turns out to be just long enough to go to the bathroom.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

26. When he wears...

A DU thong.

[jillan]

28. Do you have a DU thong?

If so - maybe you should tell all of us where to get one!

[ginchinchili]

43. When HE wears a DU thong? Oh my.

[gateley]

27. When C-Span is on in the background and you know what Senator is speaking

because you "know" their voice.

[cuke]

29. When friends ask "Did you hear about......?" you answer "Two weeks ago"

[NobleCynic]

30. When you've actually played drinking games to CSPAN

[Beacool]

31. When it's freaking 4 AM........

and I'm still on this board!!! LOL!

[zanne]

34. When it's 4:00 AM.....

And you're watching C-Span.

[Perry Logan]

32. ...you actually know who this Biden guy is.

[NoPasaran]

33. You know you are a political junkie when -

Shopping for a new vehicle, you calculate how many yard signs will fit in the back.

[rAVES]

35. When DU is your homepage!

[Lady President]

36. When Feb. 5 is your birthday

and you've already told your family & friends that despite it being months away, you're booked.

[PatSeg]

37. When you're listening to the radio

and can recognize the voice of some person most people have never heard of. This happened to me a few weeks ago - a man was talking and I instantly knew it was Jonathon Turley. My first thought was, "Oh my god, I AM a political junkie!"

[tavalon]

38. You get home from a night shift and you go right to the computer

and right to Democratic Underground to see what might have happened overnight.

[denem]

42. Hah - When you head sraight to the left of your computer.

[greeneyedboy]

39. ... the last thing you do at night and the first thing you do when you wake up is...

...catch up on DU, mydd.com, feministing.com, wonkette, IBTP, Salon.com, TPM, DailyKos, openleft.com, the Field Negro, the Unapologetic Mexican, newspapers, etc.

[greiner3]

40. Dennis Kuchinich is to the right of me politically.

[dajoki]

41. When your dream ticket aren't even candidates n/t

[laugle]

44. When you carry "IMPEACH MINTS" in your purse, to

give to people you don't know; when you have your husband wear 1 of the 50 t-shirts you bought him that say "IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY;" when you use and hand out the bumper stickers from DU; when your husband looks at you funny when you have been on DU for 3 hours..........

I love it when my husband comes home and tells me that people loved the t-shirt.....it always puts a smile on his face. I tell him "he's a walking advertisement!"

BTW, he has plenty of those DU t-shirts too.....gotta give them a plug!