Are you feeling changeful?

04Nov08

So. It’s all getting a bit exciting now, isn’t it? A win for Obama is pretty much assured, but even so I get the sense that people are too scared to say it out loud. Certainly, the mounting reports of electoral fraud and eight-hour long voting lines (which, as Rachel Maddow points out, effectively amount to a poll tax) do little to calm the nerves. Even though McCain would have to win every battleground state, all of which are leaning towards Obama, and steal the solidly Democratic Pennsylvania, more improbable things have happened in the past (probably). While President Obama would clearly not live up to the wave of anti-neoliberal and anti-war sentiment that has propelled him this far – a fact of which Gazans, for example, are well aware – four years of President McCain just doesn’t bear thinking about. And look at his smile. Just look at it.

I haven’t decided whether to follow the results on CNN or Democracy Now!, but either way it promises to be a long, nail-biter of a night. But of course, no radical himself, the minute he enters office Obama will be under extreme pressure from the interests that truly run the country to shift further to the right. That’s why what Americans do tomorrow and in the days that follow are even more important than the way they vote today.

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