My problem is I still remember the 2004 election all too well. I was certain we were going to win that one. When I saw the exit polls showing a blowout for Kerry/Edwards I was ecstatic. Then the hard numbers started coming in and I was sick to my stomach from that point on. Soon, Bill and Mark were gloating on my blog (a privilege they will not grant us this next time around). To this day I cannot fathom what happened with that election. Read the excerpt in this book I just got for a reminder of just how bad it was: http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0743286510/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
The 2006 election results were greatly reassuring, but I won't feel absolutely comfortable until after election night this November.
Don't I know it - which is why it is so hard to be anything more than "cautiously optimistic." But I do think that Obama is a different kind of candidate. We've had very few really talented politicians come across our national stage in the last several decades; Bill Clinton is one, Ronald Reagan (may he burn in hell!) was one. I think Barack Obama is going to make McCain look pitiful, but there is no doubt that the Republicans will pull out all stops to bring him down. It's going to be ugly.
It will be an election of new demographics -- African Americans who have stayed home in the past will vote, as will a lot of college-aged young adults. Moderates and even some conservatives will shift to Obama because they are sick of the war. In spite of the hype, I think Democrats will come together because of health care and worries over Supreme Court appointments (Stevens can't hang on forever, and rumor has it that Scalia wants to retire).
It will be exciting, to be sure, and I think we can pull it off.
I'm on pins and needles waiting for THAT moment this late summer, when Johnny McMav's flabby face peels away and the repubs finally understand the meaning behind his book "To Serve Man."
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My problem is I still remember the 2004 election all too well. I was certain we were going to win that one. When I saw the exit polls showing a blowout for Kerry/Edwards I was ecstatic. Then the hard numbers started coming in and I was sick to my stomach from that point on. Soon, Bill and Mark were gloating on my blog (a privilege they will not grant us this next time around).
To this day I cannot fathom what happened with that election.
Read the excerpt in this book I just got for a reminder of just how bad it was:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0743286510/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
The 2006 election results were greatly reassuring, but I won't feel absolutely comfortable until after election night this November.
Don't I know it - which is why it is so hard to be anything more than "cautiously optimistic." But I do think that Obama is a different kind of candidate. We've had very few really talented politicians come across our national stage in the last several decades; Bill Clinton is one, Ronald Reagan (may he burn in hell!) was one. I think Barack Obama is going to make McCain look pitiful, but there is no doubt that the Republicans will pull out all stops to bring him down. It's going to be ugly.
It will be an election of new demographics -- African Americans who have stayed home in the past will vote, as will a lot of college-aged young adults. Moderates and even some conservatives will shift to Obama because they are sick of the war. In spite of the hype, I think Democrats will come together because of health care and worries over Supreme Court appointments (Stevens can't hang on forever, and rumor has it that Scalia wants to retire).
It will be exciting, to be sure, and I think we can pull it off.
I'm on pins and needles waiting for THAT moment this late summer, when Johnny McMav's flabby face peels away and the repubs finally understand the meaning behind his book "To Serve Man."
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