Finding Comfort After an Election

Intercepted e-mail:

I'm passing this on because it worked for me today.

A doctor on TV said that in order to have inner peace in our lives after this election, we should always finish things that we start. Since we all could use more calm in our lives, I looked around my house to find things I'd started & hadn't finished.

I finished a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, tha mainder of Valiuminun scriptins, an a box a choclutz. Yu has no idr how fablus I feel rite now.

Sned this to all ur frenz who need inner piss. An telum u luvum.

Watauga County's Early Voting Totals

These numbers reflect One Stop polling only. They do not include absentee balloting

Amendment One
voting for ... 2,117
voting against ... 3,704

Watauga County Board of Education
Fenwick ... 1,860
Greene ... 1,545
Henries ... 1,595
Kinsey ... 2,500
Oliver ... 916
Petrea ... 590
Reese ... 2,366

Crystal Balling in the Mountains

Valuable redistricting analysis, via a Mars Hill political scientist, quoted at length by the MountainXpress. Forewarned: draws its statistics from Asheville (and most definitely from its suburbs).

What the professor didn't address: Projected (possible?) partisan "turn-out" in November. A surprise in those numbers could one-up all sorts of predictions.