Yes I know it is election day but...

I don't want a media circus using my interest to pump me full of their ad time, I don't want to think that commercials today cost almost as much as the Superbowl. I don't want to know anything about the election exit polling and predictions. I still remember Peter Jennings reporting Florida three different ways in one evening, and it took the Supreme Court to finally decide that issue.

Since no one is paying attention to me, the law should be that the media may not engage in prophecy on election day - no predictions of the winner, no reporting of the results until the last polling place closes as far to the West as that is - Hawaii gets four electoral votes, Alaska three and those seven could be all that matters. And only the votes counted - not any exit poll junk numbers, and stop using percentages - one candidate gets ten votes, one gets five - I don't want to know that the first has a hundred percent lead - I want to know one had ten and one has five. The voters don't need discouraged by MSM. Actually, the only two things that should be allowed to be reported - where the polling places are, and any emergency reaction teams for fires, floods and avalanches. And then I would also like the television and cable companies to have NO Commercials the entire day. Call it a tax that doesn't enrich anyone save for the silence - nice nature pictures and mood music might be nice.

Well, have a great voting day, the three from this home are cast and probably counted, and although Washington seems to be a BLUE state (who picked that color?) the Democratic Governess was reported to be behind in early voting - by a Republican sympathetic newspaper, strange days and stranger ways. Where is Guy Fawkes Day? Can't get here soon enough.

An aside, the picture is from my better past - many of those young people became just fine citizens of note, and many of them were members of the Junior High Rifle Club and shot targets down in the High School gymnasium. That small difference is probably only part of the reason the Nation is no longer as wonderful as I remember it then - but put the guns back into the schools, it would make me happy and I know there are some young men and women that would love to engage targets for score, one bullet at a time...