How is everyone doing?

[WilliamPitt]

I am:

...exhausted.

...enjoying an odd confluence of emotions (guarded optimism blended with a low-grade sense of panic) that reminds me of the old definition of an artist: someone who can hold two fundamentally opposing ideas in their head at the same time. :)

...impatient.

...exhausted.

How are all of you feeling?

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Right nervous

[villager]

2. "odd confluence" is right, Will...

Daring to hope, for the first time in awhile...

[steve2470]

3. cautiously optimistic nt

[shadowknows69]

4. A basket case

but the half case of beer I have on ice should help with that soon.

[KyndCulture]

5. Nervous... really nervous.

I managed to hold down some cereal.

[helderheid]

15. I made the mistake of eating lunch

[Horse with no Name]

6. Like I am going down a roller coaster at warp speed

after eating a big burrito.

[Dr. Death]

7. Butterflies in the stomach

But hopeful, hopeful.

:)

[Duer 157099]

8. Yep. Hyperventilating and holding my breath at the same time

Really puts some stress on the body... :)

[madinmaryland]

9. NERVOUS AS Hell.

[myrna minx]

10. Giddy, excited, yet I can't stop wringing my hands.

I think I need a cocktail. :bounce:

[wavesofeuphoria]

11. incredibly anxious and restless

[demo dutch]

12. Nervous because of all the voting irregularities that are being reported!

[MissB]

13. Very positive. Very upbeat.

Not at all nervous. Quite confident.

[LilyLibber]

14. I think you put it perfectly.

Part guarded optimism, part quiet freak-out. :hi:

[Iwasthere]

16. Nervous as hell... staring at my screen in my office all red faced, just waitin waitin waitin...

... if my boss came in right now and saw my red face he would probably think I was J$@#kin off or something.

[nashville_brook]

my jaw hurts...

you might say i'm ALL wound up.

[Emillereid]

17. Color me exhausted too!

I've called about 500 voters in the last three days -- on my dime yet!

It's only 2:25 PT and I plan on calling until 8 PM.

Is there any good news yet?

[oldtime dfl_er]

46. Can I help you pay your phone bill?

Seriously.

[mikelewis]

18. Hopeful that my fears will be proved wrong...

...but I'm in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, so I'm not all that hopeful.

[Thickasabrick]

19. Awaking at 4:40, voting finished by 6:40, I spent the rest of the

day blowing my diet and eating everything that wasn't nailed down. Maybe I can sleep till the results come in :)

[yellowdoggess]

20. EEEIIIIIYYY

Nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs. Will they steal it again this time?

[The_Casual_Observer]

21. Pretty optimistic right now.

I hope the feeling holds.

[Alleycat]

22. Nervous but hopeful

I can't wait for the numbers to start rolling in.

[enigmacat]

23. Too nervous to put into words.

Can't wait to know more when the results come in.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

24. I Feel Like I've Got Acid Chills.

Hopefully, some of you will know what the hell I mean by that.

I've never been so juiced up in my life. Talking to the voters, getting people out to vote, workin the phones, reactions have been so amazingly positive! This has easily been the longest feeling day of my life.

Go Dem's!!!!!

[shadowknows69]

30. OMG Acid chills

Good description. As you said you have to understand. B-)

[yellowdoggess]

42. GREAT comparison

and bold, too! Made me laugh, thanks.

[Union Thug]

61. YES!

[Jacobin]

25. Praying that Nancy doesn't pull the football from Charlie Brown

Cautiously optimistic.

[me b zola]

86. Or Lucy

;)

[MelissaB]

26. pins and needles here with some optimism thrown in.

[kestrel91316]

27. On pins and needles. Hoping for a tidal wave of blue, but

afraid of how Bush will respond to it.

[DrRang]

28. Shredded

[dethl]

29. I'm feeling pretty good

Things seem to be going our way this time. And the major Democratic players out there seem to have the balls to call out the GOP on their dirty shit. I expect a landslide to the Democrats.

Heh, my girlfriend isn't going to be happy with me: I'm going to be watching the TV all night long until I know we have our majorities in the House and Senate.

[longship]

31. Just took a Wellbutrin...

I am very anxious. Been trying to wean off medication and substitute walking and other healthy things. Doing great with it, but today I'm over the top.

I have two bottles of champagne on ice for tonight. Labelled "House Majority" and "Senate Majority". Will get mighty and happy drunk tonight if we win both houses.

[David__77]

56. Yikes!

Wellbutrin will exacerbate anxiety! You need a good xanax or something - but wait until your polls close and you've finished any remaining political work!

[julialnyc]

32. I feel the same as you.... and ready for either a stiff cocktail or a time machine

I'm very impatient

[SeattleGirl]

33. Overall, optimistic, even with the problems being reported

around the country. Voter turnout seems to be higher than usual for a mid-term election, which is great. But I do have butterflies in my stomach, waiting for the results to start coming in.

[Rick Myers]

34. Last time I felt like this, Bill Clinton became President!

I must say, your line, "guarded optimism blended with a low-grade sense of panic" is the PERFECT statement of my emotions!

[Tatiana]

35. Nervous, but cautiously optimistic.

Glad to be using a paper ballot. Excited that more races have become competitive for Dems. Pleased with Dean's 50-state strategy. Anxious about results from Tennessee....

[enigmatic]

36. very, very nervous

I don't think I've exhaled in the last 7 hours:)

The thing that's encouraging is the high voter turnout; that's a huge nail in the GOP coffin, I think.

Let's see what the exit polls say..

[Yellowbird]

37. A little hopeful... a Lot Jaded

I keep hoping... maybe I should go chew bubble gum instead of make myself crazy.

I decided to use "The Googles" new archive search engine to look at earlier Selections since Nov 1999....

and since 9/11 was of particular "quality to distract"; I focused on that.

First story to pop? New Jersey:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/11/07/2001.elex.fallout/index.html


By the way, this new Google tool is very nice, but once again, Google has lately taken to heavy handing the "editorial delete" button they control. They are obviously in bed with "the machine": (too bad, Google used to be pretty good)

http://news.google.com/archivesearch

[americanstranger]

38. Jumpy.

I want this over. I want a Democratic Congress.

Now. Cut to the chase, already.

- as

[Balderdash]

39. I wanna believe

but I'm scared. But won't it feel awesome when we win! :crazy:

[spanone]

40. Whew, long day. Long night comin'.

:smoke:

[blm]

41. Focking GREAT!!! Polls are saying number one issue is CORRUPTION and as

someone who has been saying for some time that the Anti-corruption, Open Government wing of the Dem party needs to step forward and lead this nation out of the darkness........ I am STOKED!

I will be even more insufferable here at DU.....heheh. ;)))))))))

[CrispyQ]

43. Just finished my GOTV calling,

met with my precinct captain & am now doing a shot of tequila.
Yowza!

[my_pet_wolf]

44. Waiting till off work to feel anything but optimism

then I will let it loose.

[Dr Fate]

45. Nervous, unable to concentrate- and quite good!!!

I will not be home tonight until 9:30 or so- I wish I could have a beer.

[flyarm]

47. I feel like i am going to puke..so nervous!! n/t

[VelmaD]

48. my feet hurt

I walked a lot of blocks today doing GOTV. Just about 6 hours. I have a better appreciation today of why Austin is in an area called "The Hill Country".

But right now I feel pretty good. Turnout is good in my precint. Got a kickin' party to go to tonight with the local Dems. My parents have already voted today...straight ticket Dem on PAPER BALLOTS. Life is good. Let's hope it stays that way. *crosses fingers*

I'm too tired to panic at the moment. Ask me again later though. *snort*

[pissedoffprogressive]

49. Nervous and excited all at once

:patriot:

[wundermaus]

50. All the above and then resolve...

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

[foo_bar]

51. it's F. Scott Fitzgerald

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless yet be determined to make them otherwise."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald

[Lost-in-FL]

52. Not keeping my hopes up

Although I feel optimistic. Even small gains are alright with me. Sorry, I gotten my heart shredded to pieces for the past 2 elections.

[AlinPA]

53. Tired after my shift at the polling place. (Casey sign and banner). Just had

two Chiantis with my supper. If things go right there may be a few pther drinks in the for later.

[Patsy Stone]

54. A little nauseous.

Thanks for asking, Will.

I'm also excited and ready to go to my precinct and watch the count, but it seems time is moving very slowly.

:toast:

[wysi]

55. nervous

Sweaty palms, knot in the stomach and all that. I'm jousting with a bush-bot on a New Zealand board (I live in NZ) and I can't think straight. I'm certainly not getting any work done today!

[Bluerthanblue]

57. must be a little scared, cause I'm disassociating alot today-

but I kept it together while penciling in my x's on my ballot-
It's out of our hands now- and I'm not great at handling anticipating- so I zone out-
which is where I'm headed now-

"I DO believe, I DO believe, I DO, I DO, I DO...!!!"

lets fly friends-

peace,
blu

[Union Thug]

58. Getting no work done. Might as well just go home at this rate.

Seriously, all i'm doing is refreshing web pages ... oy!

[rumpel]

59. pretty much like you...

heart pounding...

time for a grounding meditation session - :)

[Dob Bole]

60. Full of antici..........pation!

I have no doubt that we'll do well in the House, but I'll be sweating out the Senate...

Nevertheless, tomorrow the Democrats will rule the Southern Governor's Association and the most powerful person in our government will be a woman, regardless of the Senate. That's change, so I'm prematurely happy about that...

But the Senate! Agh!

[jus_the_facts]

62. I'm chillin'...

....Que Sera, Sera,
Whatever will be, will be
The future's not ours, to see
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be
Que Sera, Sera
What will be, will be

[BReisen]

63. Uneasy - I was voter #13 at my polling place

Hope it's not a sign of things to come....

Your description is right on the mark.

[Annces]

64. hoping we don't hear a primal scream here on DU tomorrow

But ready to carry on.

[AndyTiedye]

65. Trying to be Prepared for the Worst

[AbbyR]

66. Really nervous, really busy

I work at a newspaper and we are doing local election coverage - but I'm keeping a close eye on the national elections and trying to keep my mind on what I'm supposed to be doing. Not easy.

[Shakespeare]

67. Tired, extremely freaked out, and even more extremely nervous.

And impatient, too. I just cracked an especially yummy brown ale (Lost Coast microbrewery!!), which is calming me down a bit.

Sparkling wine on ice for later. I hope. Sparkling wine and pizza.

[lonestarnot]

68. My face has eaten half of itself!

[RiverStone]

69. Distracted, like my focus is NOT at work. Ready for the BLUE WAVE. Hopeful!

[april]

70. Tense

I Voted !! no problems Paper ballot & receipt....here is keeping the faith

[Generic Other]

71. The rain stopped, the sun has come out and victory is in the air

Yahoo!!

[Window]

72. I'm pissed.

I live in New Jersey in a senior citizen building with 250 units...in a Democratic area. The elevators have been down since 1:00 P.M. and are still down at almost 6:00 P.M.

I walked down 7 floors and back up, but a lot of the people are, too old and/or handicapped.

[Giant Robot]

73. At work now so keeping focused on other tasks

But pessimistic. Seen this hopefulness shattered before, am too tried to be hopeful again. Sorry but its my truth.

[La Coliniere]

74. Trepidation Tuesday

My stomach is in knots. Can't eat, can't focus on anything except the outcome. I'm trying not to think of how I felt the morning after the election 2 years ago. Don't ever want to go back to that morning. Never again. Regardless, I guess I'm somewhat hopeful, but what I really want is ECSTATIC!!

[calimary]

75. Eating my cuticles like there's no tomorrow.

Nervous. Paranoid. I have an out-of-the-ordinary distraction tonight, though - my mom's being laid out before her funeral Mass tomorrow, so we have the vigil this evening. So, actually, I have TWO reasons to be an absolute mess.

[Nickster]

76. I feel great, just got back from doing my little bit to fight back fascism. n/t

[Tess49]

77. I am so nervous that I almost feel sick.

[blues90]

78. Exhausted and beat

I just got back from voting , it was punch card in Hollywood .

I was tired before and kept the energy to go vote , now i feel the concern and worry . but i did my part for the democratic party .

This is nerve wearing stuff because I don;t want to miss Brad Friedman and Malloy tonight , then i can sleep I hope , this is if things go our way .

[Mr_Spock]

79. I think I'm going to have a drink

I am ALL wound up! :silly:

[Arugula Latte]

80. I'm sweaty and I feel like I want to throw up.

Other than that, peachy.

[tpsbmam]

81. More nervous than when my own father ran.....

he was elected to office a few times. That was NOTHING compared to tonight. I'm old, I still drink the hard stuff (when I drink at all).....it's gin & tonic time tonight! May even have two!

PS But feeling satisfied that we did everything we could on our end. Exhausted here, but a good exhausted.

[BlackVelvet04]

82. Still cold from handing out literature at the polls for 2 hours in the

rain.

Other than that....hopeful and scared all at the same time.

[marions ghost]

83. I've noticed that I start to shut down

before these things. Go into that head space that's beyond politics. Just in case it doesn't go well.
Self-protective. So much hope but so much corruption. Whatever happens, it WILL be a new day. That's my mantra. We're going to make changes...what we have now is just unacceptable.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

84. I have a killer headache

Other than that, I'm excited and holding onto my faith in Americans to do the right thing this time.

[im10ashus]

85. Nervous and impatient as well.

I am getting ready to go for a run. I need to work off some of this energy. Then...time for a beer and the results. :-)

[jokerman93]

87. Negative Capability!

...several things dovetailed in my mind, & at once it struck me, what quality went to form a Man of Achievement especially in literature & which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts without any irritable reaching after fact & reason...
~John Keats

(Also a quality of the mystic, the poet, the psychopath and the Progressive Liberal awaiting election results!)

We're doing great here. Up late last night; early today. Butterflies in the belly. 24 oz. ice cold can of Rockstar on deck. Right knee bouncing. Daring to be optimistic. Anticipating the years of work that lie ahead of us.

Today is a day to remember...

:patriot::toast::woohoo:
J

[InvisibleTouch]

88. Doing okay.

It would be very very easy at this point to let myself get carried away and visualize ecstatic victory or hopeless defeat, and then vaccilate like crazy between the two extremes. As it is, I'm trying to keep it low-key. In 2004, it seemed my every nerve-ending was tied directly to the election returns and DU posts, and of course the let-down was disastrous. It was very very personal. This time, I'm just not willing to do that to myself. I know I've done what I can do for the cause. The rest, I have no control over. It will go as it goes. I have an overall positive feeling, but I will deal with whatever future confronts us (bleak or hopeful) when we get there.

Gotta head out for a bit, but I'll definitely be back later to check the results.

[wholetruth00]

89. More nervous about what happens after the Dems win. What the Rovians will do.

These people are capable of anything!

[stepnw1f]

90. I'm about to Smoke a "Fatty"

:smoke:

[ronnykmarshall]

91. Climbing the walls!

I'm getting ready to leave work. I'm going crazy!!

[proud patriot]

92. I voted first thing this morning

before work . There had already been 20 people in the first
30 minutes of the polls being open . I've been in a great mood
all day wearing my I voted sticker :) ...Many comments all day
from parents and other teachers so hopefully I helped to remind
someone .

:patriot:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

93. Thanks, Will. I was wondering how to describe my emotions at the moment.

You pretty much nailed it.

:hi:

[in_cog_ni_to]

94. Extremely ANXIOUS

and slightly nauseous.

[Thor_MN]

95. Voting fine: Gas $2.09 this morning when I voted, $2.26 just now

Voting took 5 minutes, because I bothered to mark in all the judges that were running unopposed.


As for the Gas prices, I realize that one point does not make a trend, but my local stations jumped today.

Can't wait to start hearing returns... Might have to have a single malt ready...