Fingers crossed

I thought politics was a heated subject in California, but wow, in New York it's even crazier. Waiters remind you to vote when they hand you your bill. Airline attendants say "did you vote?" when you check in for a flight. And everywhere on the streets are guys selling buttons, and stickers, and flags. I talked for a few minutes with one guy - an artist selling canvasses on a SoHo street - who said he'd stopped painting Obama because it was getting "so overdone." Bars are having election-night parties and I really, really wonder how many people are going to call in "sick" all over NY tomorrow because they stayed up "drinking till Obama's president." 

In this election there are three results I care about: president; prop 8, because I'm married so I'm in favor of more people getting to get married, and against restricting people's options for who to get married to; and that crazy one about teenage abortions, which I really hope gets shot down because if you are a teenager, and you want an abortion, and you don't want to tell your parents about it, there is probably a very good reason, and the end result of parental notification requirements is likely to be teenagers looking up how to perform abortions on themselves on the internet, which will result in emergency room visits, etc. etc. etc. 

Can you tell from the writing style that I'm on the edge of my seat here? The only way I'm getting myself not to just watch TV straight through from now until whenever is that I've got my War & Peace class to attend. 

The more I learn, the liberal-er I get....