Now It's Up To Us

Baby I was born on Election Day 2006. Today is Election Day 2008.

Today everyone is finally equal. There are no enemies, only fellow voters. Whatever happens, whoever wins, no matter how much the results excite or discourage us, we'll get on with it.

Dancenik returned from Cuba with news of the people there and their excitement over the prospect of an Obama victory. In Israel they are probably terrified of the same result. Plotnik wonders about Osama bin Laden -- will he watch CNN to see the results? Does he have cable in his cave? Does even he confuse Obama for Osama like Bubbie and Zaydie in Florida apparently still do?

In America this is a day of supreme faith. Perhaps the process of voting is our true religion. It's better, really, because you get to see the results within 24 hours, except for Florida. You don't have to wait until you die to find out how the story ends. Of course, you still don't know if the Savior is made out of paper mache.

Here in Saint Plotniko, all the buzz is about Prop 8 -- the ban on Gay Marriage. Many emails. Many, many, many emails.

Plotnik is voting against the amendment, not so much because he cares one way or the other about gay marriage but because he doesn't. Anyone who wants to marry somebody else has enough to worry about. It's his and his, or her and her business. Also, the church supports the ban. Anything any church supports, Plotnik is suspicious about.

But Plotnik thinks the truth is that Gay Marriage is another issue that did not need to become one. Judging from his emails, Plot finds many gays feeling that gay marriage threatens heteros.

It's an easy out, but it may be missing the point. If gay marriage supporters really wanted to win over this issue, they'd find another word. Call it something else and we are not having this conversation. Here we are once again, America, arguing over a word.

Still, Plottie has many gay friends. It's important to them. And the Catholics love the amendement: Plot's voting against it.

Since The Great BZWZ announced that she trick-or-treated as Miss Wassila, Alaska, thus casting an unexpected vote, The Lunchtime Polls now point to a tie between Sarah Palin and Barack Obama, with Fiorello LaGuardia and Emiliano Zapata narrowly behind in a close race. John McCain and Undecided are running evenly, slightly behind the rest of the pack.

If that makes you scared, make sure you vote. But you have already.