Day 1039: Midterm Election Day

Politics.  Love it, hate it, consumed by it.  I'm not as paralyzed this year as I have been in the past.  As a historian, I understand historical trends, shifting electorates, American short term memories, demographic changes and the Supreme Court rulings.  I'm enraged by the Citizens United ruling and the quantity of money poured into this race.  It still doesn't make it any easier to lose seats in the Senate.  It will be a miserable two years for the entire country because the gridlock will only increase.  The seats at stake for the Senate are in primarily red states where Pres. Obama lost in 2012.  It's not a wave when only 40 % of the population votes.  The picture will be different in 2016 and the demographic shifts will doom the Republicans again.

It completely baffles me why any woman would ever vote for a Republican.  Their disrespect for women's issues, refusal to vote for equal pay for women, the denial of global climate change, voter suppression, resistance to raising the minimum wage, refusal to support road and bridge reconstruction and the continued discrimination against the LGBT citizens is infuriating.  Instead, they're worrying about ebola, all four cases in the country.  We'll see how the it goes, but I'm not going to watch results and suffer all night.

I finished the leadership chapter today!  Hooray!  It was very difficult and I rethought a great deal of it.  Now, I have to decide which chapter to tackle next.

We walked 4.4 miles on this lovely sunny day.  Tonight there's a light rain and snow is forecast for Friday.  Not like Maine.  Steve's friend Chuck sent photos of his buried car and trees drooping with the weight of wet snow.  Eighteen inches of snow on trees that still have leaves could result in so much destruction, much like the October Surprise storm.  They were without power for a day, but that's been restored.