DUers thought Kerry had it in the bag. Polls looked pretty good overall, though it was close.

because there was so much gnashing of teeth.

Of course I didn't say so, but I certainly didn't predict a Kerry victory. You are right that a lot of people thought that the polls were wrong and didn't account for cell phone users, etc. Defeating an incumbent president is always difficult.

and it's possible that's based on voter suppression.

Faux says they're way ahead, so it MUST be true.

Can't wait for Tuesday when the pinhead on each one's shoulders .

But generally just relax, wait for Tuesday, make sure to vote and then have fun watching the returns come in and Republican heads explode.

With Hillary and NH. Neither side should take she polls as gospel.

Reid won by 5.5 %. A lot of people are taking Silver as gospel. The best answer is to drag as many people as possible to the polls. There's only one poll that will matter in the end.

But whatever floats your boat.

I remember that just yesterday. Something about its all over heading to the beach, game over.

I'm betting not. And the fact that every EV poll tracker out there except one joke-tracker has O winning should calm your nerves a little.

but FR definitely feels glum to me, in spite of their positive polls.

were sure St.Sarah would cause a landslide. I don't know what Free Republic you were reading in 2008, but it looked nothing like what you described.

Why venture where the mean people live?

I remember because I'd check daily and they constantly believed McCain was going to win.

How many predictions can you get wrong in less than a minute?

I bet that they didn't point out the Rasmussen has Obama having closed down Romney in Florida and Virginia, or that 17 swing state polls show Obama ahead while only 1 show Romney ahead, with 2 showing a tie.

the Romney campaign thoroughly controlling the messaging throughout their media-sphere. The Romney campaign before had said they would coordinate with Drudge and Breitbart, and I suspect they've done the same with Fox and even individuals like Dick Morris. I get emails from all sorts of people, and they are sitting there repeating stuff that had to have been born from the sick depths of the Romney campaign. For example, there was this one email from Morris where he asserted that Romney won all 3 debates, and that despite Obama's "lying," that "people got to know Romney - and knowing Romney, people got to like him." A lot of the messaging out of the Romney campaign itself sounds very much like that kind of idol-worship. Liking and loving a "devoted, faithful, honest man." But normal people just don't think or talk like that. The messaging is superficial, strange, rehearsed, which makes me believe that the RomneyCampaign is literally dictating to pundits and media organizations what to say and how to say it. What we see over on Free Republic is the result of that brainwashing. You repeat a lie long enough, it becomes the truth for them. However, they are disconnected from reality by an extreme amount. Up until recently, Jim Robinson, the forum owner, declared that they would never endorse Romney, because he was a lying, statist, homosexualist usurper. Now Romney is the next Reagan over there.

is similar to a football team ahead by a field goal at the two minute warning.

At the beginning of the week, there were three minutes left.

Tick, tock. Romney's time is running out and he threw a Hail Mary pass to Pennsylvania.

I think they want to believe it and there's a lot of peer pressure.

They don't seem very happy.

That their belief that Benghazi is an enormous game changer proves them to be the morans that they are. Still, even worse than a Romney win will be their chest thumping if he does.

"worse than a Romney win"

No, nothing could be worse.

She's a fake and profiteer.

I really can't understand the last few candidates they fawned over.

Palin is an exercise in egotism - Sin of Pride.
Cain - Sin of Lust.
Romney - Sin of Avarice.


Do they NOT read the bible?

If there is a God, he's been setting them up for failure over and over again.

if he was not sure he would win on Tuesday.

Keep us from celebrating and being excited…

Plus its not as clear cut this time so they have hope.

Let them have it for a few more days.

and now? Obama is the INCUMBENT President, and Kerry wasn't. If you want to take it back to Carter election (I voted for him as an Independent), Carter's approval rating was very low (Odd/Even Gas lines if anyone remembers that). Obama's approval ratings, as President and personal, have only been going UP, again, unlike Carter's. Yes, this election is very close, but if Robme really had "momentum" then why would they need to keep trying to suppress the voting?

Who can the people identify with? With Bush, he gave the impression of a good, ole boy, people would like to have a beer with. How many people think Romney would sit at a bar having a beer with them? As a woman, I would give a big, fat EEEEEWWW to that. Mittens is just as creepy as The Donald.

Has anyone, especially Freepers, ever thought of THESE factors?

not by what they like about Romney.

I'm not surprised at what's happening, the hate thing gets old, it's one reason I quit reading FR, it's gotten quite out of hand. It's pure pavlovian conditioning. I am not a fan of Obama for several reasons but I do not hate him, and certainly not with the passion I've seen on FR.

There's just nothing that can justify that kind of passionate hate.

It's projection, it's hate from another source projected onto Obama.

The host was interviewing someone and was talking about how the Republicans will supposedly increase their house majority, and then said Obama would have a hard time over the next two years getting anything passed, then OOPS! stuttered, and said "well, of course I expect Romney to win, but if god forbid Obama wins." I think the smarter analysts know that the odds are on Obama by at least 60-40.

Brilliant!

they know they can't win without it.

they were convinced that McCain and Palin would win.

They are not going to roll over and play dead. They will fight for their candidate.

He was very confident, wasn't he?

Hopefully this will be my last one. It's noteworthy Hitler was telling the German people its military was consolidating its victories in April of 1945.

It's over confident 'wishful thinking'.