early results

At this point, looks like my prediction is way off. I still think Bush will win, but it seems that it will be as close as everyone predicted. We went to the Bluesboro bar in Murfreesboro tonight, where the local Republicans were assembled to watch the results. There was a wine-tasting and free food, which was great. Everyone wearing a Bush/Cheney sticker, us included when the guy came around who was passing them out. Three glasses of wine for five bucks and a bunch of free food. I kept looking around, trying to see the crowd as my kind of people, but it was an uphill struggle. Nice looking people, but when I looked into their eyes, it was clear to me that, by and large, these were people who had never gone off the rails, never been dirt-poor, never taken massive amounts of psychedelic drugs, never engaged in forbidden sexual practices. In short, never placed themselves on the other side of the invisible glass wall that separates one from straight society, not that there’s anything wrong with that. Now I really feel alienated. I no longer belong to the hippie, hate-America, delusional crowd, but I can tell I will never feel comfortable among Republican devotees either. Where are my people?