Not much to write about today, per se. Just a couple thoughts about the surprising results of the caucus last night. Going into the voting, most pundits believed there was a 3 or 4 way tie for first. However, when all was said and done, Kerry & Edwards were the closest to the top with Kerry winning and Dean lagged very far behind. Personally, I'm both happy and sad about these results. I'm happy because I'm sick of this Dean juggernaut on the internet. Everyone's pimping for him on blogs, proclaiming him the next great thing and personally, I despise the man. He's basically sayint everything he can to distance himself from the current administration, but in the process, losing all moderate voters, which seems to have hurt him in the caucus, because, according to the exit polls, most people voted for the person they thought had the best chance to beat Bush in the election.

Which brings me to the reason I'm kind of upset. If Dean had won, he would have probably catapulted to the front of the New Hampshire primary and put him in the driver's seat for the Democratic nomination - which would have been great news for Republicans because there's probably 0% chance of him beating out Bush in a national election. But I think that Kerry has at least a shot at unseating Bush, which, from a geek's standpoint isn't such a great thing. Most of Kerry's funding comes from big Media (AOL Time Warner, Disney, etc.) - which unfortunately would probably lead to more restrictions on the Internet - which I believe should be left alone and open. So, what's the best option for fellow geeks out there? According to CNET's article (linked below), it's Joe Lieberman, but while he has a very open stance on IT, he's so protectionist, it's almost scary, and has no chance of beating Bush anyways.

Though I'm registered Independent, it's no surprise that I lean towards the right. I think Bush is doing a great job after inheriting an economy that was already in a downward spiral before he took office. It's insane that all these people are out there blaming him for the economy, which he, along with Alan Greenspan and his other advisors have turned around. As an Economics major, I understand how cycles work and how the economy responds to certain simuli. Clinton rode the wave of prosperity which was ushered in by George Bush (the first). He also rode a dot-com bubble which was bound to burst and through liberal spending strategies, put us into a bust that had to be reversed by George W. Bush. Should he remain in office for another four years, I predict the U.S. finally rebounding under his fiscal directions, whereas if we suddenly switch to a liberal spending strategy (most scary under Dean), we'd once again be hit with a couple years of prosperity as we ride the Bush fiscal policy, only to be hit with another downward spiral. Should turn out to be an interesting 2004.

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