Katrina vanden Heuvel: Halloween, Elections and Haywire Emotions

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from the Nation:



Halloween, Elections and Haywire Emotions
posted by Katrina vanden Heuvel on 10/31/2008 @ 12:04am



I don't know about you but I am having a hard time sleeping, and a tough time focusing on the day-to-day tasks of my job. Sure, there's that big investigative piece waiting to run once the oxygen is back in the room after this extraordinary election. And there's all the knocking on wood and superstitious rituals that must be attended to as we head to November 4th. And there's the Nation's election pool which requires math reminding me of all the math we did during the delegate counting between January and June.

And who the hell organizes the calendar so a pumped up Halloween arrives the Friday before the mother of all Election nights?

I've decided to go to a Halloween party tomorrow night ....The tix for entrance: a contribution to Planned Parenthood on behalf of Sarah Palin. I may go as an Alaskan snow queen--after all, why waste the good stuff I picked up when the Nation cruise was in Juneau in July 2007...That was the same month the National Review and Weekly Standard cruisers docked and decided Juneau was not their kind of town....not for the elite bunch they were...and they quickly jumped at the invitation to lunch with Sarah Palin in the luxo Governor's mansion ...Meanwhile, The Nation cruisers hung with the people of Juneau at a rally organized by the city's Veterans for Peace.

Too many nights these last days I've ended up glued, eyes glazed over like one of those vampires on TrueBlood, watching David Gergen or Roland Martin-- or that Halloween-scary Bay Buchanan-- trying to say something that hasn't been said in this endless campaign. Gergen at least has shown that conventional wisdomeers can find new life in new times. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/378797/halloween_elections_and_haywire_emotions?rel=hpbox