2016 Postmortem
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(307 posts)soleft
(18,537 posts)Wish it was Wednesday already.
What has me worried?
Voter Suppression
Racism
Voting Machines
Faulty Polling
Media
Republican Secretary of States
The Supreme Court
2000
2004
Sandy affecting turnout
What has me optmistic?
Nate Silver
Swing State Polls
Number of people at ralleys
Faulty Polling
What's right with this country is stronger than what's wrong with it
Romney and Ryan are losers
Obama
brewens
(13,580 posts)allowed to vote, we do really well. I have a feeling our turnout may overwhelm any funny business they have planned. I sure hope so.
No Vested Interest
(5,166 posts)is worried, because I have seen conservative evangelicals come out of the woodwork on election day in the past.
We Dems tend to be a little naive in some way, never thinking in advance of the dirty tricks the Repubs think of, so that we often are reactive to them, sometimes too late.
I'm still thinking the best, but I'm old enough to have been disappointed (and wrong) re elections before.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)The president is either tied or ahead in every national poll and leads in enough states to give him a comfortable Electoral College Vote majority.
All the respected aggregators show him with a commanding lead:
The only way Obama can lose if almost all the polls are systematically wrong.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)Science. Statistics. Facts.
Logical
(22,457 posts)moobu2
(4,822 posts)I'm going to need therapy after this election.
demhottie
(292 posts)the vision has not been fulfilled.
I believe that America's best days are ahead of us.
Cirque du So-What
(25,932 posts)as they're beyond my control. I've done my part throughout this campaign, which has cut severely into my DUing time these past few months, I tell ya, but it was well worth it. Now, it's up to the voters to make this reelection happen and to carry some 'downstream' candidates along with President Obama. What good does worrying do at this point?
codjh9
(2,781 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Because I believe in math, science and Nate Silver.
GallopingGhost
(2,404 posts)I don't know why not; I'm just not.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)I have been talking to voters and to the GOTV volunteers.
Voters seem enthusiastic about voting for Obama and we are getting lots of volunteers.
The volunteers took time arriving, but they are in full force now. Looks good.
I'm in California and Obama is bound to win here, but the last few days I have been GOTVing with voters that are hard to reach, voters who don't answer the phone, etc., and they are so happy to see me come to their door or drop off a reminder. So I am very optimistic.
Also, a friend who was very actively supporting Ron Paul a few months ago told me he may vote for Obama. That is great news.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)I get at least ten emails a day from various Democrats telling me how close the race is and asking for more money