Posted on 10/31/2008 4:07:03 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It is time for this election to be over. It is time because it has been going on for what feels like a lifetime, because the final days have been full of noise and fury and very little light, and because we need to start solving problems rather than just debating them.
It is time because we all know how it should turn out and because thinking about what could happen if it doesn't is too upsetting.
Are Democrats in danger of being too confident? The short answer is no.
It's no because we've lost too many times when we were supposed to win. It's no because it's easier to convince people to go to a wedding than a funeral, to show up at a party instead of a wake. The California Democrats I've talked to, even the tired and cynical ones, are heading off to Colorado and Nevada and New Mexico, leaving nothing to chance, eager to be part of celebrations across the country.
And the truth is that no matter what the polls say — and they couldn't be much better — we're all still holding our breath. We're holding our breath because as many times as we tell each other that with the economy the way it is, with the wrong track numbers the way they are, with consumer confidence as low as it is, race shouldn't matter, it really shouldn't matter enough in enough places to make every single poll wrong.
It shouldn't. It really shouldn't. Because, let's face it, God forbid if it does.
This is the unspoken what-if, the whispered fear.
It's not just that Barack Obama should win because he's ahead and the economy stinks and he's run a disciplined and well-financed campaign while John McCain struggled for a message and chose a running mate whose inability to answer easy questions has left women embarrassed and fuming.
It's what it will say if he doesn't. And what will happen if he doesn't.
There is only one reason the polls could be this wrong. There is only one reason a contest that is not even close, that is somewhere between clobbered and landslide, could wind up with the other guy on top. Every pollster in America is not incompetent. Every pollster in America is not failing in precisely the same way when it comes to pulling a sample, screening for voters and assigning weights to the various groups.
The only way all these polls could be that far off is if people are lying in numbers never before seen in American politics.
Why would they do that?
You tell me it has nothing to do with race. I'll laugh. What else could it possibly be?
It is too awful to think about, for reasons having nothing to do with what kind of president McCain would be and everything to do with what it would say about us, how we would see each other, the distrust and the anger that it would unleash. Obama could say all the calming words in the world — and I have no doubt he would — but it wouldn't matter.
It's time for this election to be over so we can stop worrying about what could go wrong and how bad things would be if it did. We need to think better of each other. After Tuesday, hopefully we will.
Does she realize that Obama's defeat will be at the hands of DEMOCRATS?! Republicans vote for their own candidates, normally, so that leaves Democrats and Independents, Susan: PUMAs, Reagan Democrats, Joe/Jill the plumbers and assorted "bitter clingers" and the like.
What about LIBERALISM?????????
Why would they do that?
Because they're DEMOCRATS??
Has Susam every heard of the Little Red Riding Hood...How many times are they gonna call everything under the sun Racism? They have cheapened the word so much. Racist if you do, Racist if you don’t...
Has Susan every heard of the Little Red Riding Hood...How many times are they gonna call everything under the sun Racism? They have cheapened the word so much. Racist if you do, Racist if you don’t...
Why would anyone American vote for a communist, just because they are black. Vote for the women instead.
So am I to assume that if McCain-Palin loses, it’s all about sexism and misogyny on the part of Obama voters.
Apparently Estrich thinks that the PUMA’s are racist.
How can a person who fell off the ugly tree, slammed into every branch on the way down and STILL manage to get on TV almost every day even believe in discrimination?
Dear Susan...you witch: I am neither embarassed nor fuming over the Palin choice. Your commentary just goes to show that women can be sexist - and you are. In fact, let’s just say that if McCain/Palin lose, it will be because of sexism. Sound good?
Was Estrich formerly a man?
The American people are not ready for....... SOCIALISM!
No Susan, it is not about race. It is about Obama. He is simply not qualified to be POTUS.
"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
No - she wasn’t even formerly attractive.
I agree with her.
I am a racist.
I hate socialism.
Are you still drunk, Susan? You're sure still fugly and still stoopid.
Two reasons dumbo:
1) because we are sick of the lamestream leftist lying media so maybe some of us lie to them on general principles.
2) some will lie to the medjia and say they are voting for OBamBam when they are not, because of the fear of being called or thought of as a racist, since that is the habit of the dinosaur medjia (so-called Bradley effect). We vote against OBamBam because he is a socialist thug, not because he is black. Give us an opportunity and we would elect Thomas Sowell to any office in a heartbeat, dumbo.
WRONG, Suzie.
People are not racist- they are afraid of being CALLED racist for supporting McCain.
Besides, the Republicans are backing McCain regardless. If your theory is true the racists must all be democRATS!
It never ceases to amaze me just how little some of these liberals know about their ‘enemy’. They just cannot believe that people will vote against the ideology of the left. They assume their efforts to stereotype people is accurate and unchanging.
You are exactly right.
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