Where were you when overnight, Gore lost the election? (RANT ON)

[glowing]

It was early morning. I was sitting in the hall waiting to sign up for the last semester of college. Most of us literally slept there to get our preferred classes; and by Senior year, we knew the drill, get there early!!! Little did we know with that pronouncement that our jobs would disappear in less time than it had taken to get the degrees. The job announcements disappeared and my friends with jobs, had them yanked. We all moaned and cried when we heard our hero, Al Gore, wouldn't be President... we were the scientists Bush keeps looking for.. I have a degree in Marine and Environ metal Science... we were looking forward to the research and the possibility of discovery... Sadly, we were left with Pharmaceutical or War Machine jobs.. of which I refuse. I've thought about teaching and getting my masters in the meanwhile, but my mom and sister have voiced their utter frustration with No Child Left Behind and think I should wait until Obama (God willing) is in.

So, I became active. I read. I've blogged. I've listened. I've become political. Thanks to George Bush, I understand politics, policies, the constitution, and my right as an United States citizen and as a human being on the planet earth... So, thanks to George Bush, I vote, I march, I contact my representatives, I participate in groups, and I donate my money where it will benefit me. So, thanks Bushie.. you've woken a sleeping giant. We know what your doing, we know you are an evil, sick son of a gun, and we are taking back our country... So, fuck you and the horse you rode in on and the limping shit stain you'll slide out on...

ok, that felt good.. onto November and the other college students sitting on a cold slab floor waiting to graduate and actually do what they went and studied their hearts and paid their money for... (RANT OFF)

[cbayer]

1. I was in France.

It was a nightmare. One day the French loved me, the next day they despised me. I started telling people I was from Canada.

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3. I would have too.

[TomInTib]

2. Funny... I do not remember.

I don't even know what State I was in.

But I am pretty sure it was an altered state.

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5. I remember.. because one of the Prof.. kept keeping us on notice..

when we heard Gore was going to fight.. we had hope for a brief time.

[TomInTib]

7. I knew it was over when I saw Jas A Baker III arguing the case.

When he shows up, the fix is in. The deal is done.

[glowing]

9. I didn't know then what I did now.. like I said, Bush woke a sleeping giant in a lot of us.

The fact that we have Obama where he is now, is a reflection of the very pissed and more aware populous.. Lord knows, our do nothing 06' mandated congress critters didn't get it and continue to protect their asses.

[PATRICK]

4. I worked all night

People with access to the computers watched in amazement as the numbers chugged backward and the tide of
democracy was turned back. When Gore was notified about the online smoking tabulation numbers it became an element of his decision to turn his concessionmobile around again.

Whether you watched all night or woke up to the shock it was all obvious, all rotten, except to the lapdog press wearing its GOP blinders. Other nations mocked us through the night about the President's brother's state.

[City Lights]

6. I was living in AZ at the time and was up all night watching the coverage.

I remember it well. :mad:

[glowing]

8. I waited for a while, but had to go to bed before the end for registration..

and in the AM it was stolen.. And it still doesn't feel ok or any better 8 years later..

[Beregond2]

10. If you mean when the SC ruled, who knows?

But the actual loss came much earlier. The night of the election, I was driving home from work, listening to NPR. They announced FLA had gone for Gore, and I cheered, as I knew it would come down to Florida. I stopped at a store and bought some champagne. When I got home, I was opening the bottle, when they showed the Bush family reaction to the announcement. They exchanged looks and W smirked. My heart sank. I said: "Oh no...the fix is in."

And I was right. It was all over at that moment.

[glowing]

11. Not the SC ruling.. the over night swing thing.. it was nutsy and shitty..

I thought I was stepping into a prosperous new beginning.. like most grads do...Ha ha.. The fix was in for a lot of us.

[McCamy Taylor]

12. It was Saturday in December when the SCOTUS ruled in Bush v. Gore.

He did not lose. It was stolen. I was Christmas shopping.

The election night coverage did not mean shit. I never believed that for a second.

[Princess Buttercup]

13. I was in my kitchen

I started my Christmas baking that election night so I wouldn't be completely obsessed with the TV coverage and would have something to keep me busy. That night I baked 6 loaves of bread, 4 pies, and 3 batches of cookie dough. I baked more the next night, and the next, while the TV coverage droned on. About three days in I was watching C-SPAN around 11 p.m. and had to fight the urge to get out of bed and go bake another pie. I had plenty of baked goods in the freezer and I just kept baking more. Finally, December. My Christmas baking was done. Plenty of breads and pies and cookies for friends and neighbors. I always make pralines at Christmas and that was the only thing I hadn't made as I don't think they are supposed to be frozen (never tried). SCOTUS decision. Deep depression. No more baking. No pralines. Relatives complained. I said I wouldn't make them again until there was a Democrat back in the White House (I caved on this and made some Christmas of 2006, to the great joy of my family and friends). It was 2005 before I even started to feel like doing much baking again, mainly because my son and I enjoy baking together. But for a long time after that election marathon I found no joy in baking. I would make a little bit here and there because I do like giving baked goods as gifts, but people noticed I wasn't doing as much as I used to, I didn't seem to be enjoying it, etc. Then they looked at me like I was crazy when I tried to explain that it was George W. Bush's fault.

I can still flashback to being in the kitchen, up to my elbows in flour, when the guy on the TV said Florida was back in play. What a nightmare.

[hendo]

14. Oh, i remember where I was nt

[w4rma]

15. I had gone home and quit watching election coverage after it was announced that Gore won Florida.

Then I was told that they were retracting it and were placing it in the too close to call category. When NBC called Florida for Bush I knew they would have to retract it because the heavily Democratic counties in South Florida hadn't been counted yet. I was right. I knew that if *I* knew that then there was fishy business going on with big media.

[JackBeck]

16. I was bartending that night and the entire bar was following the election that evening.

I bought the whole bar shots when Gore was declared the winner and the celebration was under way.

But within the hour, everything had changed, and a confused murmur set in as we witnessed the results changed before our eyes. I finally called it a night at around 6:30am when the reality of the theft settled in our collective consciousness, and after too many cigarettes and a final shot of Jaeger, we decided to sleep it off.

And 2004? I had started working for a non-profit agency and we didn't turn on the office lights until around 4 when it got pitch-black. That was another huge kick the the nads.

[Tresalisa]

17. I was living in CA and was sick with the flu on election day.

Fortunately for me my polling place was only a half-block away, so I drug my butt out of bed to go vote, went back home and crawled into bed with the TV on CNN for election coverage. I was awake when Florida was announced for Gore and was ecstatic! I fell asleep with the TV still on and woke up a few hours later to the big disappointment.