The Agony and the Ecstasy

But it gets a little closer every day
and I will hold it in my hand before I die,
you know there isn't any way that we can lose
--So Close and Yet So Far, Agent Orange

The course of true love never did run smooth
--A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare
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We been robbed! At least, it feels like it, as we trudge on, increasingly feeling Hillary's pain. O.k. . . . no one ever said blogging was going to be a rose garden.

All our votes have been taken away, but so have everyone else's. The Florida Progressive Blogging Awards committee has decided that the race was just too darn close in six of the categories (including ours). They didn't say it was a tie, so somebody won, but apparently it didn't meet some undeclared spread.

So, they have stripped all the votes away and are starting from scratch today. And gosh darn it, being Florida, they will keep doing it 'til the right person wins. The delicious mystery is, we don't know who that person is.

The best we can do is to impress upon all of our kind readers to vote once again. You have six days. The contest is open through Sunday June 8, midnight. It's Florida, and the rules are different here. At least Katherine Harris will not be stopping the recount.

This has become a test of who has the staunchest reading audience.

Sorry to impress upon your goodwill and your forbearance, but please re-cast your vote for Ranger -- best national blog written by Floridians. There are only six categories, winnowed down to three contenders each. Voting should be easier, and you only need vote for us, unless you are motivated to vote for others.

We are in the Ranger spirit here, so we're tough. Ooo-rah. Once more, dear friends. Vote here.