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Liberals Worry as Election Approaches [many of her liberal patients speak of their electoral fears]
New York Times ^
Posted on 10/31/2008 2:39:07 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Liberals Worry as Election Approaches By MICHAEL POWELL
In the den of his home in New Hope, Pa., a liberal Democrat sits tap-tapping at his computer.
Jon Downs, 53, works the electoral vote maps on Yahoo like a spiritualist shaking his Ouija board. He calibrates and recalibrates: Give Senator John McCain Ohio, Missouri, even Florida. But Virginia and Pennsylvania, those go to Senator Barack Obama. And Vermont, Democrats can count on Vermont, right?
Right.
Almost always, Mr. Downs ends with Mr. Obama, the Democratic presidential nominee, ahead, which should please this confirmed liberal and profound Obama fan. But just as often he feels worried.
“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already,” Mr. Downs said. “The only thing worse than losing is to think that you’re going to win and then lose.”
He considers that prospect and mutters, almost involuntarily: “Oh, God.”
To talk with liberal Democrats in New Hope, San Francisco or Miami Beach, to drill deep into their id, is to stand at the intersection of Liberal and High Anxiety.
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good grief......
To: Sub-Driver
New Hope, Pa
Is he gay too?
Plenty of fags there.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:42:01 PM PDT
by
nmh
(Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God).)
To: Sub-Driver
LOL! You know the liberal complains to the liberal shrink, and that only makes the liberal shrink get stressed out too!
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:42:33 PM PDT
by
MNDude
To: Sub-Driver
This is sooooooo old hat.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:42:33 PM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: Sub-Driver
to drill deep into their id Too bad we can't run our cars on id.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:42:40 PM PDT
by
Argus
(Obama: All turban and no goats.)
To: Sub-Driver
Let’s make them all go crazy.
To: Sub-Driver
What is good in life...to see these a-holes driven before you, their hopes cruelly and mercilessly crushed, and to hear the whinging lamentations of their media whores and scoundrels.
To: Sub-Driver
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:43:20 PM PDT
by
boomop1
To: Sub-Driver
Liberals--never very far from the psychiatrist's couch.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:43:37 PM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Sub-Driver
Don’t worry, They make a pill for that.
Then again, ther’s a pill for just about everything.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:43:44 PM PDT
by
ChetNavVet
(Build It, and they won't come!)
To: Sub-Driver
Liberals are worried.
Conservatives are worried.
This election is for all the marbles.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:44:03 PM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: Sub-Driver
Sounds more like “No Hope” to me.
To: Sub-Driver
Once again, the Slimes finds what is not worth printing....
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:44:28 PM PDT
by
illiac
(If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
To: Sub-Driver
I hope they all need to take xanex for the rest of their life.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:44:32 PM PDT
by
lookout88
(Combat search and rescue officer's dad.)
To: Sub-Driver
Sad stuff - I guess politics is the religion of the libs. And we can beat them at that too!
Those liberals living in Manhatten in the lap of luxury, they need to gain some perspective.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:45:19 PM PDT
by
Doug4McCain
(McCain/Palin 2008)
To: hinckley buzzard
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:46:23 PM PDT
by
RandyGH
(Democrats--So far left they've left America)
To: Sub-Driver
“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already,”
I guess The Guru was right. You just can't cure stupid. Stupid is forever.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:47:41 PM PDT
by
sofaman
(Moses dragged us through the desert for 40 years to the one place in the ME with no oil - Golda Meir)
To: Sub-Driver
More PETSS. Post Election Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Oh yeah, now there's the Pre variety, too. So liberals can get their four year fill of doom and gloom. Its tough when your guy loses! sob!>
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:50:19 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: Sub-Driver
“Look, I have this sense of impending doom;
we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already,” Mr. Downs said. “The only thing worse than losing is to think that you’re going to win and then lose.”
MOONBAT!
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:50:33 PM PDT
by
DemforBush
(I'm voting for Palin and that's all I got to say about that!)
To: Sub-Driver
Liberals Worry as Election Approaches Why should they be spared?
Besides their dude is still well ahead in estimated electoral votes, even though the popular vote remains close. So they should quite their whining. Oh, I forgot, whining is what they do.
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posted on
10/31/2008 2:50:42 PM PDT
by
El Gato
("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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