I’m confident after being really concerned a few weeks ago but do you truly believe it’s over? What’s your track record for predictions? ;)
Hahah well completely blew ‘08, didn’t really leave my comfort zone when talking to people.
This time, have been talking to everyone I can to guage things, and going out of my way to find people that are normally outside my sphere, and I honestly cannot find enthusiastic support for Obama anywhere... Academia is about the only place its fairly stable, everywhere else its in the toilet.
So that’s the annectdotal.. but the more compelling is simply this.. Obama rode a wave of anti-bush, anti-clinton sentiment to the white house amongs at perfect storm as a blank slate candidate.. 4 years later his nothingness shows through, his record cannot be dodged. The very idea America was ever going to elect a president who has presided over an economy with 15%+ real unemployment was laughable on its face.
Not going to happen folks.
Fight like its neck and neck, but this thing was never a race.