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Christiandem (99 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:48 PM
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CALM DOWN PEOPLE!!! CALM DOWN!!!
Why is it that there are a bunch of us w/the doom and gloom attitude? I came in relaxed, but I expected a tough fight. Yet from reading from all these "panicking" DUers, I am catching some that too. STOP STOP STOP. PLEASE STOP............... OH is not called yet, nor is Florida. We will win PA and NH, and probably MI, WI and MN. So why don't everyone just relax and calm down. I talked to a friend of mine, and she nearly went bonkers over what is going on w/the elections and started shouting in the phone. Please. We don't need that right now.
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   Frepers are running amok  FAWATSON   Nov-02-04 10:49 PM   #1 
   no one knows how much to trust anyone now that post counts are gone  ChavezSpeakstheTruth   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #2 
   I'm cool...I'm calm...  Bjornsdotter   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #3 
   Yes, Kim, Kerry will win.  Christiandem   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #8 
   I hope so!  Pithlet   Nov-02-04 10:51 PM   #11 
   From what I am seeing  johnnie   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #4 
   People are understandably nervous.  Pithlet   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #5 
   some people need to come here to relieve stress  NewJeffCT   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #6 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #7 
   We just won Pennsylvania!  cat_girl25   Nov-02-04 10:50 PM   #9 
   Yes!  Pithlet   Nov-02-04 10:52 PM   #14 
   I agree we have to be patient  marlakay   Nov-02-04 10:51 PM   #10 
   Hard NOT to swallow some Kool-Aid...  BiggJawn   Nov-02-04 10:54 PM   #19 
   People are still voting in OH: GOTV in action! OH is ours!  LiberalAndProud   Nov-02-04 10:51 PM   #12 
   I'm sparkin' a bowl....  Nag Champa   Nov-02-04 10:51 PM   # 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Nov-02-04 10:55 PM   #22 
   Panic is what the networks are trying for.  kdmorris   Nov-02-04 10:51 PM   #13 
   Please don't feed the trolls  The Jacobin   Nov-02-04 10:52 PM   #15 
   I'm perfectly happy to chill, nervous but very confident! (n/t)  noonriser   Nov-02-04 10:53 PM   #16 
   Zogby sez... Bush needs Florida, Ohio AND Colorado to win  scottxyz   Nov-02-04 10:54 PM   #17 
   Assuming Wisc and Mich turn around - NT  UDenver20   Nov-02-04 10:56 PM   #23 
   We must prevail. Keep your chins up, and be PROUD!!!  Sebum   Nov-02-04 10:54 PM   #18 
   I came in here to be calm!  texasblueeyes   Nov-02-04 10:54 PM   #20 
   I have no finger nails left!  liberal N proud   Nov-02-04 10:55 PM   #21 
   NRO  Jeep   Nov-02-04 10:57 PM   #24 
   The thought of looking at AWOL and his regime  JPace   Nov-02-04 10:59 PM   #25 
   Courage guys, courage  Christiandem   Nov-02-04 11:02 PM   #26 
   Nervous but Confident!!!  chocolat   Nov-02-04 11:03 PM   #27 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Nov-02-04 11:03 PM   #28 
   Oh my God! We're down by two runs in the third inning!  klook   Nov-02-04 11:05 PM   #29 
   I think there are a lot of relatively new DUers who simply  Tansy_Gold   Nov-02-04 11:14 PM   #30 
   it isn't over until it's over!  flaminbats   Nov-02-04 11:41 PM   #31 
   cause and effect. Its the law of the Universe...  FizzFuzz   Nov-02-04 11:54 PM   #33 
   Florida? Record Turnouts for what? Bush????  October   Nov-02-04 11:44 PM   #32 
   Deleted message  Name removed   Nov-03-04 12:06 AM   #34 
   Please, please stop with the negativity. I am getting an ulcer  Sebum   Nov-03-04 12:11 AM   #36 
   We got robbed last time  snoochie   Nov-03-04 12:11 AM   #35 
 
Hans Delbrook (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:49 PM
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1. Frepers are running amok
Ignore these assholes.
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ChavezSpeakstheTruth (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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2. no one knows how much to trust anyone now that post counts are gone
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Bjornsdotter (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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3. I'm cool...I'm calm...

...Kerry will win!

Cheers,
Kim :toast:
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Christiandem (99 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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8. Yes, Kim, Kerry will win.
See, we just got PA
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:51 PM
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11. I hope so!
This is so nervwracking. I'm not throwing it in the towel yet.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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4. From what I am seeing
This is a typical election evening so far. Remember...faux called it for bush at 2:00 in the morning.
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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5. People are understandably nervous.
We also don't need to bury our heads in the sand if things aren't looking good. I'm not saying that things aren't looking good just yet, but we have to be realistic.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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6. some people need to come here to relieve stress
I'm pretty down, but I know others are angry or upset or just need to vent for a minute...
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Name removed (0 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:50 PM
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9. We just won Pennsylvania!
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Pithlet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:52 PM
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14. Yes!
That's good.

*breath, Pithlet. Breath..*
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marlakay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:51 PM
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10. I agree we have to be patient
I turned off my cell after my husband called me freaking, he works nights.

You would think since ALL of us know that the media is slanted to the right that they would do the same for the election.
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BiggJawn (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:54 PM
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19. Hard NOT to swallow some Kool-Aid...
When you're on tip-toes up to your EARS in it...

God-damn Media!
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LiberalAndProud Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:51 PM
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12. People are still voting in OH: GOTV in action! OH is ours!
believe it.
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Nag Champa (271 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:51 PM
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I'm sparkin' a bowl....
Fuck it.
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Name removed (0 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:55 PM
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kdmorris Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:51 PM
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13. Panic is what the networks are trying for.
The more they can get Democrats demoralized, the less of them will vote on the West Coast. But, in 15 minutes, polls close over most of the West Coast too.

We may still lose, but don't give up the farm just yet. Yes, it looks bad, IF YOU LISTEN TO THE NETWORKS. So far, as many have pointed out, we haven't lost anything that wasn't expected.
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The Jacobin (818 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:52 PM
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15. Please don't feed the trolls
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noonriser (216 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:53 PM
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16. I'm perfectly happy to chill, nervous but very confident! (n/t)
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scottxyz (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:54 PM
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17. Zogby sez... Bush needs Florida, Ohio AND Colorado to win
If Kerry gets JUST ONE out of Florida, Ohio or Colorado, then Kerry wins.

The math is here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph...
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UDenver20 (403 posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:56 PM
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23. Assuming Wisc and Mich turn around - NT
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Sebum (55 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:54 PM
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18. We must prevail. Keep your chins up, and be PROUD!!!
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 10:54 PM
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20. I came in here to be calm!
All I've seen is gloom and done from mostly posters I haven't seen much of. It's getting old!
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:55 PM
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21. I have no finger nails left!
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Jeep (21 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:57 PM
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24. NRO
By the way, they're laughing at us on National Review Online:

http://www.nationalreview.com/thecorner/corner.asp
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JPace (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 10:59 PM
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25. The thought of looking at AWOL and his regime
Edited on Tue Nov-02-04 11:00 PM by JPace
continue their dismantling of our country for another
four years is so abhorant it makes one feel ill. Its
like trying to kill a damed vampire....we shoot and
shoot and the thing just keeps rising up and coming
at you again.
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Christiandem (99 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 11:02 PM
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26. Courage guys, courage
Remember the Red Sox, down 3-0 and coming back and win!!!

The media has called all the bush states, and not the kerry ones. Our turn to laugh will be coming up soon.
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chocolat (7 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 11:03 PM
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27. Nervous but Confident!!!
Let's spread this mood around!

KERRY WILL WIN!!!!! :D :D :D
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klook Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 11:05 PM
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29. Oh my God! We're down by two runs in the third inning!
How can we possibly win?

</disgust>
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 11:14 PM
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30. I think there are a lot of relatively new DUers who simplyUpdated at 8:44 AM
don't understand the whole election process. We've seen a lot of posts from people who clearly haven't familiarized themselves with the details of % precincts vs. % voters, etc. They see a single precinct counted in a state and immediately post "KERRY LEADS 62-37 IN XX!!!!" And then when a few more precincts come in and the tally changes, they get panicky.

Also, we have a lot of people starting new threads when there are already fifteen on the same subject, so it's difficult to track the evolution of a particular state's count. To muddy the waters, they'll post FL results in a thread on OH or PA.

I refuse to watch television, so I made the HUGE mistake of coming here to DU to follow the returns. The early posts of exit polls made things look like the proverbial cakewalk -- no thanks to folks like Lou Dobbs, whom I can't stand anyway -- and when the cakewalk didn't materialize, everyone got thrown into a tizzy. Panic, like any mob emotion, can become contagious. And when you throw in a bunch of probably well-practiced trolls, it is only worse.

There seems to be a dearth of posts by the long-time and more knowledgeable DUers and a plethora of posts and threads from relative newbies. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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flaminbats (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 11:41 PM
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31. it isn't over until it's over!
it's encouraging to see Kerry's numbers increase as we wait. Regardless of what happens, it cannot change the law of cause and effect. Every cause has an effect, and every effect can be a cause. Not that I wish to cause you to in effect vote differently, or wish you to effect any of my causes.
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FizzFuzz (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Tue Nov-02-04 11:54 PM
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33. cause and effect. Its the law of the Universe...
of course I know that. In my head--guess I haven't become SURE of it. OK, Fizz, Breathe. Even if the effect doesn't come when we WANT, its there, just not manifest yet.

This is the teaching I practice. But right now, my stomach is just ready to fly up my throat and I'm having a hard time staying calm.

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October Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Tue Nov-02-04 11:44 PM
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32. Florida? Record Turnouts for what? Bush????
No one believes that.

I can't calm down. Not now.
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Sebum (55 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-03-04 12:11 AM
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36. Please, please stop with the negativity. I am getting an ulcer
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snoochie (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Wed Nov-03-04 12:11 AM
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35. We got robbed last time
People are nervous. Soothe, don't command.

We have won. They're dragging their feet and refusing to admit Kerry's the projected winner, but we will be victorious in the end.

We do have to stay with it. We can't give up like last time.
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