This is the most optimistic I've ever felt during a presidential election.

In 2000, I had a nagging feeling we'd lose. I don't know, I was young and couldn't vote yet, but I remember every day after school asking my mom how it was going and she just would shake her head and say, "Sean, not good..."

In 2004, I never felt good. At all. I was convinced Kerry couldn't win, even when he pulled into a tie in national polls shortly after the first debate. I will admit I got excited on election day reading the leaked exit polls, but that excitement quickly diminished. :(

But today I feel good. I feel really good. I feel that there is still a lot of work left to do, but we're in the best position Democrats have ever been in, at least most recently. Now let's just hope by October 31st I feel just as good!

I can't seem to get ahold of myself. Everything I've seen and read points to Obama winning next month. I should by all rights be OVER confident at this point, but I'm just worried instead. I go to sleep with it stuck in my brain and I wake up the same way. Don't know why. Can't control it. But there it is.

Maybe I'm just not drinking enough.

I knew it was a close race, but I just couldn't believe that Bush could be "re-elected". I went around in a total funk for over a month.

Remember how you felt when you woke up the next morning. I called in sick -- because I WAS.
I'm reminded often, every day, not to get too sure of things. CAUTION.

I was very confident that Kerry would win in 2004, that the majority of Americans could see what a total fuckup * had been during his first term and that they would correct that in the voting booth. I put way too much hope in my fellow countrymen, and when Kerry conceded the race, I was literally in a state of disbelief. I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. I couldn't believe that my country had made this mistake, and that disappointment hurt like Hell.

I'm really trying not to get my hopes up that high again. I'm feeling good about Obama's chances, but I'm having to make a conscious effort to not get too excited. I'm also very worried that something will happen in the next 34 days to boost McCain's campaign. 34 days is a lifetime in politics.

they will steal it if they can!

I am more optimistic than I have been, but I am in no way certain that Obama will win.

my nerves will never settle until Jan. 20th. Ever.