[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Every pundit who looks at this and blathers thereon has his/her own bias; not necessarily in terms of R or D (though there is plenty of that) but in terms of what they believe is either a winning strategy or a winning electoral vote count strategy or what will speak to the FSA or what will appeal to staunch conservatives or what it will take to win Ohio.

I don’t think we have ever seen an election like this one before, certainly not in my lifetime; there may have been the perception that the entire Republic was at stake in elections back in the 1700’s and 1800’s. I don’t think there has been an election where half the country was ready, willing, and able to either vote away their freedoms to ensure their next government paycheck, or, to take out whatever deep-seated feelings of revenge against the stirred-up wrongdoings of their own country.

[muawiyah]

people are rather complex beings and are motivated by much more than where they get their pay checks.

you'll want to abandon your view on the matter or folks will start identifying you as a marxist shill ~ since that's the essence of marxism ~ that men are simple beings drifting in the sea of life and can be easily led with purely material elements to do what their masters want.

[nickcarraway]

Don’t get too optimistic. Romney is not in favor of those freedoms. At best, he’s a few percent better than the other guy.

[Lacey2]

I don’t think we have ever seen an election like this one before, certainly not in my lifetime;

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Agreed. I am an old dude and previous elections have been viewed much like sporting events. There were 2 teams ans while you wanted your team to win, if they didn’t you would feel bad for a day and then move on. It used to be both teams were different mostly on the margins but no longer is that the case.

Never has the population had to make a choice between 2 futures so radically different. What is most frightening about these times is the level of ignorance pervading the general population. I am not saying people are stupid, which calls into question the ability to learn but rather they are not interested in learning but take the lazy way of simply accepting what they are told as factual.

As many have said, Obama is not the problem we face today as much as the fact so many Americans voted to allow him to run the country.