What would the new threads here be like if the situation were reversed?

[Motown_Johnny]

Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that we were in the repugs shoes and they were in ours.


Behind in every reasonable EV projection

Behind in popular vote projection

VP candidate made a fool of by radio jocks in the last 72 hours of the campaign

Presidential candidate virtually conceding on SNL in the last 72 hours of the campaign

far better GOTV effort against us instead of for us

out of money

out of ideas

out of time




How would the new threads here go if that were our situation?

[Bicoastal]

1. WE CAN STILL DO IT! I'M SO EXCITED! IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, MY PSYCHIC SAID SO!!!!

[billyoc]

2. They'd be the same pessimistic bullshit we're seeing now.

[Bicoastal]

3. No, I'm pretty sure we'd be just as insanely optimistic as the Freepers...

...some of whom are certain they're on track for a landslide. It's just how it works.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. Funny.... so the posters will be ass backward no matter what? Then I guess the pessimism is good

since they must be wrong

[cali]

5. I'm pretty sure we'd all be convinced we'd lose/have stolen

another election.

[knowledgeispwr]

6. Picking out obscure outlying polls to convince ourself we were going to win...

Coming up with insane theories about how all the polls are wrong. Talk up some hidden factor(s). Denial.

There would also be some doom and gloom, but a lot of denial.

[ROh70]

7. We should work like we're 10 points down!!!!!

[Danger Mouse]

8. Denial and defeatism. A lot of depression.

[Bicoastal]

10. More denial, I think--'cause it still lingers.

Some people still think Kerry was way ahead in the polls on Election day 2004. They couldn't be more wrong.

[Danger Mouse]

12. I wasn't a DU'er back then but I was certainly in denial too.

I didn't see how Kerry could possibly lose...

[crossroads]

13. Neither did I! I cried for weeks after... like I was in mourning

Looking back, I was in mourning for my country because I knew what was going to happen after they stole it from Kerry, and it did!!!
:cry:
CR

[ROh70]

9. People would talk about how defeat was inevitable and how democrats don't have their shit together

The republicans are sincerely shocked that they are going to lose. They are in denial.

If the shoe was on the other foot, we wouldn't be shocked, we'd be, "here we go again." People would go on about how democrats are so dsyfunctional that they couldn't even win the presidency in this environment. You'd have Obama supporters blaming Hillary Clinton and PUMAs, while HRC supporters would be talking about how they were right about Obama being un-electable, how he stole the election, about how Hillary will win 2012, etc.

Basically, you'd have the crap going on that went on during the primaries.

[anigbrowl]

11. Like losing campaigns in the primaries

Denial, a lot of finger-pointing, infighting etc.

[Dem2theMax]

14. Ummm, see 2004. See 2000. Archives. Do they go back that far?

I hope not. I don't EVER want to feel that way again.

[dennis4868]

15. take a look at the threads...

in 2004....that's your answer!