See: 1981-1992 and November 2000-2008.

One more Bewsh-like presidency (especially with what would be a rubberstamp Boehner-run Congress and a corporate SCOTUS) and it's "Game OVER" for anyone making less than 300 grand a year.

Albeit glacial, there can't be any risk of progress getting thrown off the tracks. America, because of it's two-term-Bewsh stupidity, is now in a position where just about every move it makes HAS to be the correct one. That boardroom wonk bastard will destroy America.

I ignore it.
I don't think complacency is wanted, quite the opposite.
But there is a big difference between "Oh dear Obama is behind on a poll" and "heh, Obama better fix his shitty loser self" or whatever.
A difference between being negative about polls and such, and being negative about Obama.
Some of the "worry" seems explicitly designed to dishearten or encourage disaffection with the candidate, as if voting GOP would be a viable alternative. Lots of people with noses cut off their face who can't afford insurance to have them stitched back on, seems to me, if they vote GOP instead. (Yeah probably that sentence is constructed really badly but it is early.)

It's some BS you just made up.

How many brave, resolute worriers do you know of?

I am not one to worry much without cause. But it is simply ridiculous to call people who are concerned over watching a 4 point lead in the polls evaporate and the loss of electoral college votes 'Nervous Warriors'. Maybe we just live in a reality where a lot of people are looking more for a reason to NOT vote for Obama then they are a reason TO vote for him. Romney has been lying and flip flopping the whole time and yet, he has still managed to gain some traction with lies and flip flops.

I am sure Obama can trudge back and win. But now he WILL have to trudge. Romney is unlikely to make any more big mistakes and the country is now almost immune to them anyway. That's why Denver hit Obama so hard. Up til then he had looked infallible. If he had just managed a credible performance that night, he wouldn't be where he is now.

Maybe it is a good thing. Maybe it will fire up Dems to vote. God, I hope so.

...you give the impression you would rather wring your hands and look for the nearest 50-story ledge to stand on.

Get a grip.

At least the glass-half-empty kids are worrying about the election instead of other people's reactions on a discussion board.

I'm worried that the perception could become reality. We need the press to report this one poll in the context, not trumpet it as proof that Romney has bounced back. We need to call out anyone who suggests that any one poll proves anything.

I am an unabashed Liberal from Iowa. My vote is sent in by mail. I have received word that my vote counted and was not discarded ( I wasn't worried). When people focus on a presidential choice, they do NOT do so based solely on a good performance in 2 hours. Being President requires the ability to keep it together at all times. Obama has demonstrated that he can do this. He will win a second term and deserves it. Fact- checking ruined Romney's chances and exposed him for the disingenuous person that he and atheist-loving Ryan represent.

just keep pluggin along to see what happens in each now.

i am not really believing what i am hearing at the moment. so, not gonna work on getting excited.

if i remember correctly, three or four weeks ago, they said romney was tied with women, also. didnt believe it then. not believing it now.

Is that the response you were looking for? Seriously, attacking others as defeatists because they express concern about the facts seems a little disrespectful. History is not kind to those go about their business with a "can't fail" attitude.

I lived in Tallahassee during the 2000 election...I'm programmed to freak the hell out when something like this happens!

However, I would argue there's a fundamental difference between those who worry that Romney is pulling ahead and those who worry the election will be stolen. I've been concerned about election stealing for the past 12 years. That's not going to change until we get more protections put into place. But the legal victories in Ohio and PA make me feel a lot better.

As for the Pew poll, I think that poll was crap. Yet both Michael Moore and James Carville warned months ago to not get overconfident and I think that's good advice. The best way to fight worry is to go out and take some action to help. The worst way is probably hanging around a message board and echoing your anxiety back and forth with others until defeatism sets in. And if the Rs are going to try to steal the election, giving credence to the idea that Romney made this huge, unbelievable, sudden gain isn't going to help matters.

If people weren't voting on hackable machines all over the country, I wouldn't be worried.

The 2000 election was a once-in-a-lifetime thing, but I remember 2004.

there is also a deliberate effort to spread such feelings, and even DU gets its share of downer posts trying to discourage Democrats. It's often hard to tell the two things apart, but we have our share of Deliberate Discouragers here on DU. Their motives are questionable.