{"id":34254,"date":"2024-11-05T09:43:32","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34254"},"modified":"2024-11-05T09:43:32","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T14:43:32","slug":"election-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=34254","title":{"rendered":"Election Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I voted before work this morning. I live in one of those lauded-slash-dreaded swing states. There was a time–2008? 2012?–I wanted Ohio nuked from orbit. It was the only way to be sure. Now I want myself nuked from orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Completed<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I registered to attend a Kamala Harris rally in Harrisburg last week, but didn’t go. It would have been an all-day thing, it ended after dark, I don’t know that part of Harrisburg, and I don’t like driving after dark since I became partially sighted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sunrise<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If I’d checked my email yesterday, I was invited to the Harris rally at the Philadelphia Art Museum. I didn’t attend that, either. I’ve been to the Philly Art Museum–I drove my sister there in 2002 for a Marymount alumni event–and I didn’t much like driving there in the daytime. I really wouldn’t have enjoyed it at night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Looking<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I was voter #32. Someone, a few voters ahead of me, was voting for the first time. I congratulated him as he got his sticker. His mother was so proud of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Hunt<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Harris canvasser came by on Saturday. She wanted to make sure I was voting. I assure her I was, that I had a plan. I didn’t vote absentee–and early voting in Pennsylvania is really absentee-in-person–because I wanted to limit the claims of a “red wave” in Pennsylvania on Election Day–absentees aren’t opened and counted until after<\/em> Election Day–plus, there’s no telling what shenanigans the GOP would get up to to try to limit\/challenge absentee voting in this state. She said she understood and went on her way.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\"Some<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

“There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, as Dan Rather says, “Courage.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I voted before work this morning. I live in one of those lauded-slash-dreaded swing states. There was a time–2008? 2012?–I wanted Ohio nuked from orbit. It was the only way to be sure. Now I want myself nuked from orbit. I registered to attend a Kamala Harris rally in Harrisburg last week, but didn’t go.Continue reading “Election Day”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[5168,4258,4939],"class_list":["post-34254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-2024-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-kamala-harris","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}