Thanks. I'm still new, about 150 posts. Been looking about and not always liking what I've seen.
Guess some folks with huge post totals aren't friendly to newbies or tolerant of missteps.
Some forums of interest to me seem dead, like my New Mexico one.

I noticed a huge change in attitude on the part of the press after the first debate.Another thing is that some are too impatient for real poll results so they believe whichever poll that came out in the last hour.
Nate Silver is the least knee jerky of the polls I have found.
I also see the racism and the misogyny seething just below the surface civility too.
Nice guys those Republican Christians.
We are going to walk away with this election,just GOTV and be ready to celebrate.

https://twitter.com/fivethirtyeight

many republicans put party before country
they lack critical thinking skills - they believe what is said on Fox 'News' Drudge report, hate radio and other right wing corporate media
many are so disillusioned with 'the system' that they don't bother voting - they would probably vote for the President if they voted, and I think this is a major problem that needs to be addressed after the election
racism
idiocy
many don't know a good thing when they see it - they just listen to their moron loud-mouthed friends and try to act like them
the words communism and socialism - though they don't at all apply to the President or anything he has done - are used constantly by many of the plutocracy, and it scares the crap out of old ignoramuses
most so-called journalists are lazy and don't want to rock the boat

I wish the Obama campaign had made a major point of showing the bills he sent to Congress that were blocked by the GOP.
The economy and unemployment would be so much better without the GOP's "Dead on arrival" policy.

Did that job bill for returning vets ever get passed ?

It's got nothing to do with race, for the most part.

It has to do with the fact that both candidates occupy such a limited space in the overall political grid. Two sides of the same anti-free market coin.