Two of the big polls are showing 27 seats each for Labor/Zionist Union and for Likud. The third big poll is showing 28 for Likud, 27 for Labor/Zionist Union.

These are only initial results but god. So. So. So. Depressing.

I wouldn't have even cared if we hadn't had elections. There was a government. It had momentum. But once it dismantled, once the campaigns started going, once the polls started showing a bigger and bigger dissent with Bibi, once I started imagining what a government led by Herzog might actually look like - all of a sudden there was hope, and ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh these results are so dismaying.

My very first LJ post was on Election Day, 2003. Ironically, it - and ha, every single elections day post I've made since, this is my fifth - is basically a disappointed vent. Not that everything would be roses and butterflies if the Zionist Union had a bigger majority - but I would have more hope, at least, for things improving.

Idk. I guess I should just hold off on the disappointment of not seeing any immediate decisive change, which wasn't really going to happen anyway, and wait for the conclusive results tomorrow. And wait to see who actually ends up forming a coalition. he polls could be off.

It's just... tiring, and despairing, and I don't want to hope and be disappointed again, sigh.

I'll wake up tomorrow and see what awaits, I guess.