We have to win by a big margin - and we will!

...to be a democracy.

It would be nice if we worried more about how our "democracy" is working for us.

I wonder if they just flat out say in meetings "how are our voter suppression plans coming along?"

Thankfully we have a candidate willing to fight like hell to prevent it

the damage has already been done. Mass confusion, and resources that need to be shifted to voter education early in the game from the GOTV ground ops in the final days.

We may lose a state or two that fall into that suppressed margin.

And slip to 39 points one day and for weeks they would talk about how he is slipping and fizzling out and the passion is gone and blah blah blah.

Really though, a poll comes out that has Obama up by 5 and they call it a tie. Romney gets to 45% one day and he is surging. Obama leads in every swing state and they call the election "a toss up". Obama gives a speech in front of 15,000 people and they say "only 15,000 people". This is why i stopped watching the political "experts" long ago.

I haven't seen Romney ahead in all that time by a significant margin or at all. I think maybe he was ahead in some of the right leaning polls, but never a good lead when they have all been averaged together. Romney has never been ahead in the EV vote which is the one I take into consideration a lot more. It is possible that Romney could win the popular vote but not the EV. I don't think he will win either. I think the margin of win for Obama is going to look a lot like when he won against McCain. It should be by a wider margin though considering McCain is a lot more likable than Romney, but I don't care about the win margin, for our future we must win.

They keep talking about how "close" this election is yet for most of the summer and into the fall of 2008, Obama was ahead of McCain by similar margins. It was only after people started paying attention in September that he really started to pull ahead. I don't buy that this election is going to come down to the wire.

If Democrats become more engaged and likely to vote, his lead will widen significantly.

My guess is that Obama will win by 3-5%. Close, but not that close.