I think people are more apt to be mean and say hurtful things on a board such as this because of the anonymity. At my office there are only 7 employees (six girls and one male boss). At the outset of the election campaign we all pretty much knew who was voting for who (my boss and I were Bush supporters and the others were for Kerry). We kept politics out of most of our discussions and if it did crop up it was handled in a more thoughtful way. Today at work there was no gloating and no bashing. It's called r-e-s-p-e-c-t and I think there would be more of it here at Pet Talk if we were all in a room together and people weren't just firing off insults from a keyboard.

Miranda Rae welcome to the world of politics and elections - not always a pretty thing but we are all Americans and we will survive!