I worry about how people will react to the results. I feel like I don’t want to look at Facebook for the next two days. I wish everyone in there could just decide to “count to ten” regarding their reactions to the results, whatever they are. I don’t mean shut up forever, I just mean take a moment to cool down.
I do have a little anticipatory anxiety, but mostly I feel like whatever it is it is, and I can’t do much about it now. Unless of course if there are issues with the voting process itself or if an election is too close to call. I will not start really paying attention until much later tonight. I really don’t like all the discussion on TV about polls and the guessing being done by these talking heads. I feel like it might influence voter turn out, and that bothers me, so I put my head in the sand about it.
I’m very interested to see what happens in FL, GA, and TN. I think Oprah getting out in GA will help push Abrams over the finish line. Bloomberg compaigning here in FL for Gillum probably helped him, but not as significantly as the Oprah effect, because the people Bloomberg speaks to are likely voters already. He might have reached some independents though. I have been spammed over and over again in my text messages and it’s in my news feed on my Facebook that the Democrat, Gillum, is an antisemite against Israel. I’m glad to see Bloomberg was willing to campaign, he is respected by people from both parties I think.