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GreenPartyVoter

(72,377 posts)
Wed Oct 3, 2012, 11:21 PM Oct 2012

The source of my "concern."

We're talking incredibly high stakes here. Four more years of directing the economic recovery, healthcare, social security, wars, possible SCOTUS appointments, and so on. We need a fired up candidate to bring along fired up voters to vote for him and down ticket. We can't afford for the other guys to get that fire and those down ticket votes.

Every moment counts.

So yeah, if I feel that win slipping away even a smidge, even just temporarily, I can't help but reflect on what we might end up with if we don't win. And it doesn't make me a troll for feeling that way.

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