US Presidential Elections 2004

If the Melbourne Cup was the big news yesterday afternoon, it was the US elections today. All day long, we sat in front of our laptops, hands on the mouses (mice?), clicking the Refresh button of our Firefox browsers, loading CNN.com every few minutes.

One of our colleagues was pro-Bush, so we took turns teasing him. So why does he support Bush, you ask? He said Bush did make some mistakes, so now he won't make them again. Says who? He said among the two, Bush is more God-fearing; he is a man of God. My gawd, just imagine what he'll do when God tells him to bomb China. He said he only has the interests of the Iraqi people when he sought to bring Saddam down. Not to mention his oil and Haliburton buddies.

By 5:30pm, Bush is leading Kerry by a few tens of electoral college votes. And Ohio is still too close to call. It's probably true what they say: whoever wins Ohio win the elections. Right now, the score stands at Bush 254 - Kerry 252, with Iowa, New Mexico, and Ohio votes still unaccounted for.