In six short days, a sleeping giant awakens

And that sleeping giant is American democracy. There's a rumbling in the world, and for the next 144 hours or so, we're going to keep it going. We're going to keep firing off those emails and driving people to the polls and standing up for the truth whenever some slack-jawed bushite tries to instill fear in the American people. And our reward, in six short days, will be a stunning victory for John Kerry.

We will take Ohio. We will take Pennsylvania. We will take Wisconsin and Iowa and New Mexico. We will take Colorado and Nevada. And Arkansas.

College students in their first election cycles will vote in record numbers. People in their late 20s who never bothered to vote before will vote in record numbers. Progressives, whether they supported Nader or voted for Gore, will vote in record numbers, and not give Nader a second thought. Mothers and sons and brothers and friends of service men will throw their votes to the democratic candidate in record numbers. States that have not voted for a democrat in two generations will ... still not vote for Kerry, but the bush margin of victory will be surprisingly small, and the 10-15 point margin of victory will give hope and energy to those of us stuck in painfully red states.

This will happen, folks. I feel a groundswell. On the news I see Kerry packing arenas and filling the streets while bush has to have his audience sign loyalty oaths and promise to laugh at his jokes. In Oklahoma, I see streets lined with Kerry/Edwards signs. I see people handwriting banners and hanging them in picture windows or on highway overpasses. At the DU I see optimism and enthusiasm and hope, while the free republic seeps with anger and fear. I see Kerry and his talking heads speak with vitality and vision. I see bush and his sycophants speak with resignation. The media keeps saying it is a dead heat, but I feel a groundswell. Definitely a groundswell. The earth is rumbling, and I'll be damned if it doesn't feel fantastic. We need to keep this energy and move forward with it, because we know what's at stake in this election. And once this election is over, we have to keep this energy going because we'll know what the brink is like.

I know that six days is a lot of time and there is much work left to be done, but surely I'm not alone in feeling this sensation ...

It's frightening and exhilirating at the same time!

I can't even contemplate the ramifications of being wrong.

So often in the last 3+ years, as talking heads talked about how great and christian and compassionate bush is, i've felt like i've been intellectually imprisoned in an alternate universe. I feel like I'm going to get paroled in six days :D

my friends think i should go on some prescript meds till its over.

got it covered though. :hippie:

it's a beautiful day! thanx DU!

:toast:

Because we are going to have a LANDSLIDE!

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I hope to be giving (and hearing) a lot of Dean Screams next Tuesday night. :D

I'm more pumped about this election than any in my life.

Glad you mentioned Oklahoma. I'm not full of illusions, but as I drove to work this morning, I noticed I was in a caravan of cars sporting Kerry/Edwards bumper stickers with one Shrub/Dick thrown in. There seemed to be an unconscious energy flowing between the Kerry cars as the poor Shrub got boxed in and marginalized to the slow, plodding, right lane.

We WILL be heard.

Mosh or Die!

careful now, some would say the drivers with bush stickers are prime candidates for road rage :evilgrin:

I simply can't believe how many Kerry signs and displays I've seen this year. I know Norman tends to be more liberal than the rest of the state, but even so, there was nowhere near this kind of energy for Gore four years ago.

I drive down a street in south Edmond every day, and one stretch has three Kerry signs with only one Shrub in the middle. Edmond! Hell, I even saw a few Kerry signs in Nichols Hills the other day, which nearly caused me to have a wreck. I couldn't believe my eyes.

Same deal in Moore. My cousin, a freeper type I gave up on long ago, lives in one of the many housing additions there, and where she lives it's a dead-heat in the sign wars. That's amazing in that place, and it's got her nervous, which is good.

I live in a fairly Democratic precinct, thankfully. I haven't seen one Shrub sign in my condo/apartment complex, and I get a few thumbs ups for my Kerry stickers when I'm driving out in the morning. There is a Coburn sign at the main intersection near me, but the other day a bigger Carson sign was placed so that it blocks the other one from most angles.

I have no idea how that happened. :evilgrin:

but the end times for this regime, not of the world :D That would have caused me to have a wreck too.

that I feel confident and certain and without anxiety that Kerry/Edwards will emerge victorious. No doubt about it!

Thank you for posting this. I feel it too, the groundswell, the excitement, the energy of democracy. :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

election reform.

http://www.geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/electionreform.htm

Part of my (hopefully not irrational) exuberance lately is that I have hope that next Tuesday's election will be a beginning. Because if we as a people can demonstrate our power by defying all expectations, then maybe people (by which I mean THE PEOPLE) will want to explore their (our) power a little more fully. I can only hope, of course, but today at least I'm feeling pretty good about it.

I just hope that Kerry takes the time to state how important the young people's votes were and really drives home the point that peoples votes do matter.

"this MONSTER...this COWARD...that we have EMPOWERED.."

"No more blood for oil...we've got our own battles to fight on our own soil..."

Watch / listen to Eminem's "Mosh" on Yahoo! Launch: http://launch.yahoo.com/artist/default.asp?artistID=103...

You're right, there IS "optimism and enthusiasm and hope" here, but there's something else too...I don't quite know how to label it other than a "Boston Tea Party" spirit...a strong urge to take all of the baggage of the Bush "dynasty" and dump it in Boston Harbor on November 2nd, you know?

No more "Dubya"

No more "Pickles"

No more "Bush Twins"

No more "Bar"

No more "Poppy"

...just John Kerry and John Edwards, rolling up their shirt sleeves and preparing to clean up the mess that Bush will leave behind. But that's where DU comes in again, because if I know anything at all, it's that John Kerry is VERY aware of this Web Site and what's posted here, and when clean-up time comes, he has a pretty formidable ARMY ready to pitch in...he just needs to make the request.

:toast:

"On the cold evening of December 16, 1773, a large band of patriots, disguised as Mohawk Indians, burst from the South Meeting House with the spirit of freedom burning in their eyes. The patriots headed towards Griffin's Wharf and the three ships. Quickly, quietly, and in an orderly manner, the Sons of Liberty boarded each of the tea ships. Once on board, the patriots went to work striking the chests with axes and hatchets. Thousands of spectators watched in silence. Only the sounds of ax blades splitting wood rang out from Boston Harbor. Once the crates are open, the patriots dumped the tea into the sea."

http://www.bostonteapartyship.com/

I would love to dump this administration into the Boston harbor. Well, everything except any incriminating evidence we might use to put them behind bars.

How busy do you suppose the white house shredders will be from november 3rd through the kerry inauguration?

Mosh now or die!
Kerry Landslide