November 4th: Will you be holding your breath, or are you

[babylonsister]

really convinced Obama will win?

P.S. Waiting is torture.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. I'm 95% sure he'll win but I am still worried. I thought Gore was gonna win also

[democrattotheend]

2. I'm going to be a wreck all day

I already am a wreck. I don't care what the polls say...I remember New Hampshire, and I remember Ohio. Obama is the underdog until the day he is in the Oval Office.

[hisownpetard]

3. Both!

[codjh9]

7. Yeah, me too - I think it's a done deal, but will only believe it when it's OVER! n/t

[HughMoran]

4. I can't stop being anxious until it's over

:)

[evlbstrd]

5. If I do, I'll pass out on my keyboard

and leave little chiclet dents on my forehead.

[Jersey Devil]

6. Don't sit around and get nervous - work on GOTV

You can make calls from your home, from you local Dem Hdq, drive voters to the polls, knock on doors. That's what I will be doing.

This board should be empty on Election Day. We should all be out doing something for the campaign.

[csziggy]

26. Thank you for suggesting this.

We're trying to find enough volunteers to fill our team. While we have hundreds of Obama supporters who have filled out volunteer cards at Obama HQ here, few will actually get out and work for the campaign. So on our team there are about five people doing most of the work.

Today was supposed to be my day off from the campaign. I spent all day just replying to emails, recording lists of possible volunteers so they can be called to check if they are actually going to show when they said they would and generating call lists of potential volunteers to be called.

We're supposed to have shifts from 6 AM to 9:30 PM starting Nov. 1. I am not sure if I have someone else to take part of the day to wrangle volunteers, so that might be how long my days will be not counting travel time back and forth to the alternative staging area.

My plan for Election Night is to take a Vicodin and get some sleep. Sometime Wednesday I will find out what happened.

So all of you who have not volunteered to do anything in the next week - get out there and DO IT. There are plenty of jobs that need to be done, if all you do is to take food to the teams or ferry supplies around. Contact your local Obama HQ and find out where you are needed - I guarantee they will have something you can do!

[cliffordu]

8. I have more faith in the process than I have had for a looong time

but I am sharpening my knives.....

[mmonk]

9. I think he will win

but there's been so much disappointment since 2000. That disappointment runs very deep in me. And I'm scared even if we win, everybody will say everything is ok now and the past nightmare will be swept under a rug and many unconstitutional and abusive things will still exist without correction.

[trixie]

10. I will be praying that the election workers

move their asses faster! I am in charge of closing a public building that is a major polling place. I have absolutely nothing to do with the election but only must maintain the building. That precints crew is as old as the hills and they love their little get togethers. They bring food and cookies and punch and after the polls close they party.........meanwhile I am jumping up and down to get the building locked up. For a little local election they took 2 hours to close up after the polls closed. I may be there all night. :banghead:

I may be very chatty online so be warned. :rofl:

[Drunken Irishman]

11. I'm at about 98% sure.

My mom is 100% convinced.

[babylonsister]

12. Wow, I SO want to be where your mom is! How can a convinced

person be unconvinced? I'm not really. GOBAMA! So many different indications, so little time (left).

[Drunken Irishman]

13. Beats me.

We're having a huge election party where the entire family is coming up to watch the returns and I told her, "He better win or there is going to be a mass suicide here!"

She responded with, "He'll win...no doubt."

So be it.

[Gregorian]

14. The longer we hold our breath, the bluer we get.

I'm now almost completely convinced. All bases are covered. Florida's governor just allowed early voting. Ohio isn't caving. 5000 lawyers. CAN YOU DIG IT.

No, it's going to be a bigger spread than they're predicting. I'm no pro, but I see people. Lots of people. Smart people. Black people. And they have waited lifetimes! The polls don't reflect that.

[babylonsister]

15. LOL! "The longer we hold our breath, the bluer we get."

Ok then, I'm officially blue, or dead!

[Hansel]

16. I've always been confident that Obama is going to win this.

I'm just waiting to see how he does it. It's like watching a movie that you know is going to have a happy ending, but you are not quite sure how they are going to get there. Especially with all of the bumps and setbacks the character goes through along the way.

I had that exact same feeling about him in the primary starting right after the Iowa caucus. I never had any doubt he was going to be the nominee from that point. I've also never have had any doubt that he will be the president.

The last Democratic candidate that I felt this way about was Bill Clinton. I knew that Gore and Kerry were going to lose.

The 1/2 hr ad tomorrow night is the launch of the final wave of his campaign. He will begin to steamroll McCain and make it impossible for him to get his message out. It will be a tsunami that McCain is completely unprepared to counter and any effort he makes will make him look even more like the babbling fool that he is.

Like Obama says, he doesn't throw the 1st punch, but he darn well will throw the last. I believe him.

[babylonsister]

18. Wow. I've been an Obama supporter since January, but I've had

my moments (Wright)(Hillary) where I wondered if he could surmount some stuff.

But I've always believed him. How weird is that, talking about a politician? I really do.

[Hansel]

24. Those were some of the bumps and setbacks

Wright and Hillary were. So I just sat up a little straighter in my seat to see how he was going to maneuver it. But I always thought he was going to prevail. I lost patience with Hillary very early on because I was so confident of the outcome.

It is kind of weird. He's something we haven't seen in a very long time. A genuine, compassionate, and intelligent leader with great presence. They are hard to beat. JFK was the last person I saw close to having this stature. I think Obama's got him beat.

If you have ever seen him in person you know he's got an aura around him that you can feel. I've never seen anyone quite like him. It's not like he's a god. He's definitely human, warts and all. But it's like he is overpoweringly reassuring, confident and strong, and just makes you feel like everything is going to be okay with him in charge.

[grannylib]

17. He'll win, I just don't want the rePigliCons to steal it away. If it were not

for rePigliCon theft and fraud, this would be a hands down, GOP-blown-the-fuck-aWAY election landslide. But rePigliCons are not to be trusted; voting machines are not to be trusted; we've had the last two presidential elections stolen; I put NOTHING past these filth. Nothing.

[Quixote1818]

19. If the polls look the same as they do today, I will be 100% sure Obama will win

Even if they try to steel it, the numbers are just too much in our favor. If things start to tighten between then and now or something happens then I would be bighting my nails. Right now we are totally in the driver seat.

[Phoonzang]

20. I think Obama will win, but really who can be completely sure after the last 2 times around.

I'm traumatized. It's like PTSD. So I'll be a complete fucking wreck.

[MrSlayer]

21. Definitely holding my breath.

I am incredibly skeptical of my fellow Americans.

[Bryn]

22. Actually Obama better be THAT ONE, Rightfully so

not a stolen vote/given to repug by SCOTUS like it happened to Gore and Kerry or there will be a HUGE problem because we all know Obama is the real winner by sizes of his rallies all over the places and endorsements by Republicans like Colin Powell and others who are sick of GOP. Hundreds of newspapers have endorsed Obama.

THAT ONE is going to be our next President! :hi:

[handmade34]

23. more than anxious...

I have been blown away by Obama since I watched the 2004 Democratic Convention... I was teaching Social Studies in Vermont at the time, taped his speech, showed it to my students the next day and told them to watch for this guy!!!! I think this election is the greatest thing in my lifetime so far (56th birthday today!). I am so anxious, I can't even imagine Barack Obama not winning, it is an unbearable thought.

[babylonsister]

25. I was hanging out here waiting for someone to come along after

my candidate John Kerry was denied (and I think he was, and what a difference he would have made!).

I found this site because of the illegal occupation, I stayed for the conversation.

And Obama is in my heart. Very truly, he NEEDS to be our next president, for all of us.

[Swamp Rat]

27. Geauxbama!!!

:woohoo: