主题：【纪事】US OF CANADA，三藩的选后抑郁 -- 西风陶陶
“把东西两岸划给加拿大，做UNITED STATES OF CANADA吧，俺们去当加拿大人。”
“今年圣诞，俺不回IDAHO老家过了，那儿都是共和党。”
BUSH的当选，让80％的三藩市民陷落在无比郁闷中。
San Francisco in No Mood for Tolerance After Bush Win
Sun Nov 7, 2004 07:03 PM ET
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By Andrea Orr
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The summer of love has given way to the autumn of fear in San Francisco, a liberal stronghold where residents bitterly disappointed by the Bush victory are in no mood to reach out and mend divisions.
Rather, they are waving "United States of Canada" maps, redrawn to show Canada extending down to include California, New England and the other so-called "blue states" that voted decisively for Massachusetts Democratic Sen. John Kerry in the U.S. presidential race.
Some are canceling plans to travel to neighboring "red states," where Bush drew most of his support. They are asking serious questions about the future of American democracy. And the usual post-election bravado about moving out of the country when a favored candidate loses is sounding different this year. It sounds a lot more serious.
"I'm going in on Monday and getting a new passport," said an electronics technician and volunteer at the Green Festival environmental conference who requested anonymity.
"I'm not leaving yet, but I'm getting prepared," he said. "I can imagine that this country is going to get a lot worse before it gets better."
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat who competed with Kerry for his party's presidential nomination before backing the senator, urged the crowd at the festival to remain hopeful and connect with the other concerned citizens.
But the questions Kucinich fielded were anything but hopeful.
"Why should we believe we will ever have another fair election in this country?" asked one woman.
After the well-publicized electoral chaos in Florida in 2000, the United States invited international observers to monitor the Nov. 2 election. Despite widespread allegations of electoral fraud before last week's vote, they were unable to substantiate the claims.
The woman's frustration was echoed throughout San Francisco, arguably the most liberal city in one of the most Democratic states in the country. On Tuesday, 83.3 percent of voters in San Francisco County cast their ballots for Kerry, compared with 62.8 percent in Los Angeles County and 54.7 percent statewide.
STAYING OUT OF RED STATES
Peace and tolerance have long been the words to live by in San Francisco, known for its large gay community, broad ethnic mix and frequent anti-war protests. But days after the election, many residents said they were so worried about an erosion of civil rights, environmental standards and the escalating violence in the Middle East, that they did not know how they could tolerate the Bush administration, or Americans who voted to re-elect him.
"I have family in Idaho, but I told my wife we're not going to visit them now. It's all Republicans there," said Ron Schmidt, a public relations executive. "We have family in Indiana and I don't want to go there either."
It was not the reaction George W. Bush must have been hoping for when he made his acceptance speech on Wednesday and told Kerry supporters: "I will need your support and I will work to earn it."
Schmidt said: "The ideologies of the two parties are too different. I don't see how healing can take place. I feel like the disenfranchised minority now, and that's a funny thing for a tall, good-looking white guy like me to say."
Schmidt's friend, magazine editor Joseph Connelly, said one of his columnists who had moved temporarily to Paris six months ago decided Wednesday she would settle there permanently.
"She was hoping she would want to come back," Connelly said, "but after she saw the election results she just didn't."
平时多给老黑点钱，下次选举就有戏了。
竟然都没个说法；俺一直想不通一样，如果那总统的政策有害于俺，凭什么俺挣钱还要给他花！最好的是TNND谁选薯仔谁交联邦税！
加州从老早开始，民主党的支持率就没低于过10%。
按1000万选民投票来算，那就是净赢100万票呀~~~
只要有稍微好一点的配票，让60万铁杆党徒分别去驰援僵持不下的俄亥俄与佛罗里达两个票仓，只要在那里进行选民登记就行了，然后就可以远程投票。这60万大军，还搞不死共和党？.....
大多老美较真，DISHONEST在这是个非常有力的指控。
不等于选举没做假，上次BUSH是用做假上的台，那要靠军方给的远距离选票。
窃以为，本来这次KERRY有机会，但是当他在大选前几天公布伊拉克政策是给那里的人民带来更好的生活，而不是给大公司敛财，自此，他失去了某些幕后力量的支持。
但是，俺的这个想法没有很多认同。
