And that is the main reason I fear the Far Reich will either find a way to steal this election, or worse.

and his team of Neo-cons could very well start WW3 if he is elected. He has no qualms about attacking Iran or China.

their increasing irrelevance. if the choice is between winning or going extinct that might explain the radical push and incredible spending going on, to a degree anyway.
i don't think i've been this nervous before an election. actually that's bullshit: 2008. we just need to win again, and to win by enough that the republicans cannot pull off a steal. though i think it quite possible that if they attempt to steal it, chaos in the streets would result. my own boss said there would be an arab spring in the USA if romney steals the election.

i agree with you kentuck: this is a very important election.

oh, sure, there's a huge difference between the two candidates, but for starters i expect congress to be divided, so neither candidate would be able to accomplish much legislatively, at least for 2, probably 4 years (the incumbent party often loses seats in congress in mid-term elections, to wit, 2014).

most importantly, i think in the long run we'll view obama's 8 years in much the same way clinton's were -- a temporary stalling of the right-wing agenda.

yes, the economy and the budget and the poor will all fare better under obama, and yes that matters.

but in the long run, the eventually i fear the right-wing will take their share one way or another. at a minimum, the things that need to happen to prevent this are much bigger than merely getting the right president in office.

But the difference now and when Bill Clinton left office is a much different world. We are on much shakier ground at the present. Events can be unpredictable. When people don't have food or jobs, then can tend to get a little angry. We truly do not know what the future holds. But we can see a way that it would be much worse.

Demographics are changing. Young people are more liberal and the old are more conservative. We need to win to cement Obama's achievements in place. Then we need to win in 2016 to make sure that people forget about reaganism. Obama isn't just the first black president he's the first northern democartic senator to win since JFK. This is the kind of democrat we can build a long term political coalition around like FDR. All that depends on the outcome of the election. We need to reduce the republicans to a minority party permanently.