Posted by
Kevin Condon on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 12:00:00 AM
Last night it sounded like New Year's Eve in SOHO where I'm staying at the Holiday Inn on business. My wife Glenda Gay, one of the poll workers at Hiawatha Davis Rec Center, was devestated by her day. One of the Democrat pollworkers decided to no longer abide by the polling rules and turned the place into a party for Obama's win relatively early in the day. Since Glenda Gay was the only Republican in the place, and the only non-African American worker, she had to lump it if she didn't like it. One of the election officials told her she should have sent the offending pollworker home, but that was not possible in her minority position at the polling place. So, she came home and cried out of anger at the bad behavior of her co-worker and how it had subverted the polling place, at least at Hiawatha Davis. Certainly good behavior at the polls would not have turned the election. However, subverting proper rules during polling is a crime and it feels like it to those who were to have enforeced the rules, but could not.
On my side, I feel alienated and betrayed today. I don't feel wrong about being a conservative or a Republican, though both of those things haven't been easy during this election cycle. I just feel like an anachronism, alienated from those who do not share or care for my traditional values anymore, seemingly. There was more going on last night than this, but I just feel so far outside the mainstream right now.