The way the polls are looking right now it appears that Barack Obama is going to win the election. No matter how many tricks they try to pull on election day I just don’t think McCain can pull this out. And with the ground game Obama has going on the election may already be won due to early/absentee voting.

Which brings up something I am, confused, about. Does this mean that things will get better?

See, my entire ‘adult’ life we have had a republican president and republican policies being applied. All I really know is Bush. I have no freaking idea what is going to happen in an Obama administration. It would be… totally new… to me.

This is going to be interesting.

We haven’t really had a ‘perfect’ and ‘fair’ election for a president in a long time. Or at least one where one of the candidates won outright (aka 50%+ of the vote). There is a claim that could be made that had Ross Perot not been involved in the 1992 race Bill Clinton wouldn’t have won. And of course the mother of all poor ‘unfair’ elections was Bush v. Gore in 2000. A majority of Americans (50%+) have not decided on a president in an election in 20 years. I really hope that changes this year.

I hope that this general election is fair and played by the rules, just like the primaries were played by ‘the rules’, and that whichever candidate wins they win with over 50% of the vote. I want to be able to tell my children that this election was won fair and square, from the moment Obama declared his candidacy until the moment he stands on the stage on inauguration day, that all the rules were followed as written. I want to win by enough electoral votes that the states where there might be challenges on registration or campaign activities are unnecessary. I want to win in such a way that this election isn’t decided by Ohio or Florida alone. Ultimately, I want a president where the American people overwhelmingly decided that this person was right for the job.

That would be nice.

I was led to believe that I knew a bunch of stuff that would totally loose Obama the election in Ohio. They made their entire plan ’secret’ and ‘private’ and on a ‘need to know’ basis

Then they announced most of it to the press.

The one passage that is most noteworthy is this:
“To reach out to rural and suburban areas, the Obama campaign is recruiting “neighborhood team leaders” to build networks of local volunteers to persuade voters on face-to-face, instead of relying on television advertisements alone. There is one leader for each of the designated 1,200 neighborhoods in Ohio, which contains 5 to 10 precincts, according to Pickrell.”

Hell, they are advertising the Ohio Neighborhood Team Leader program on the Barack Obama website

I’m not going to take any chances of saying anything that has not been mentioned to the press, so if I don’t have a URL to link to I won’t say anything. But know this one thing- We are going to win Ohio.

I was in Denver this previous weekend and decided to leave on Tuesday… I had school and didn’t want to pay too much on housing. I had an HDTV, and thought watching Obama’s speech in HD would be just as good if not better than just being there in person.

Now I’ve fucked up BIG many, many, MANY times in my life. Hell, if you just Google “Nick4753“, “NickCatal” or “Nick Catalano” you will find more than enough evidence of my screwups.

Oh, I’ve made big mistakes in my 21 years on earth.

But coming back on Tuesday is by far the biggest one. Staying away from this convention, from that stadium last Thursday, when I had an easy way to stay longer and people who would support me if I wanted to, was a horrible idea.

An absolutely horrible idea.

And I’ll regret it for quite awhile.

Go Obama!

I am pretty pissed that I am not getting paid for work right now.

You know that whole thing about not working for Obama in Ohio, well… the interesting somewhat-dirty side note is that I was actually expecting to pocket some cash from the deal.

My bank account should be a few grand heavier than it currently is.

So I am sitting here without a job, running low on funds, and bored out of my fucking mind. And now I have a few more weeks of absolutely nothing planned until school starts. Beautiful!

Thank god the parents are here to help out a bit, at least to give me enough money to go to the College Democrats of America convention in Denver in a few weeks. Those conventions are always fun.