Anybody else having trouble geting excited "yet" about Obama's great looking poll numbers?

I am cautiously optimistic that Barack Obama will be our next president!:) And I simply can't wrap my mind around the possibility of a different outcome.

There is a cascade effect going on with the polls over the last several days; we are seeing amazing shifts to blue in virtually all the battle ground states. A few talking heads in the corporate MSM, most notably Chuck Todd yesterday - are now suggesting McLame has to completely run the table of EVERY remaining toss up state and 100% hang on to every BushCo state left to defend, to even have a slight chance of victory.

Conventional wisdom suggests at least a 10 point Obama lead is needed to buffer against voting machine fraud.

How about you? With all this good news, are you able to sleep any better leading up to the election? A little better....maybe...but not until I see McLame surrender will I celebrate. :party:

so I know that a month is a lifetime in politics, but on the whole I think the trends are looking good for Obama.

...Texas, I think Obama can take the state seeing that ~ 3 million new citizens mostly from coastal states are new voters here.

But certainly am encouraged.

In terms of a victory, that I have no doubt about.....because otherwise, look for a total complete breakdown of the global financial Market. An Obama win is the only thing that will restore confidence in the United States' ability to rise from the economic ashes......and I'm being very serious.

I knew he was going to win in a landslide the day after Iowa.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2004/Pres/Maps/Oct06.html

Today: Obama 329 McCain 194 Ties 15

http://electoral-vote.com/

I'll take it.

bags. OBAMA MUST FIGHT BACK HARD AND PUSH FORWARD. the funddies are going to smear him every day. it's also up to us to help the campaign and do whatever we can to expose the lies and smears .

I'll celebrate on 11/05 after McCain's concession speech is flooding YouTube. Until then - tinfoil hat on, and campaigning hard as hell!

I've daydreamed a few times about what Nov 5 will feel like if he wins, and stuff like that.

It feels pretty good, but I'm a long way from excited. (I was optimistic in 2004 and got burned...)

That's what it's all about. None of this means anything if we don't get people to the polls, and watch the polls for any shenanigans.

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to get excited. I mourned those losses like the loss of an immediate family member. I don't know if my mental stability can take another hit.

Even if he's at 60%, keep hammering.

I don't want people to become too complacent with a lead in the polls and have that lead to lower numbers voting. We need to have every last person who is able get out and vote for Obama so it'll be harder to steal the election. This is why I am volunteering for a whole bunch of shifts for Obama's GOTV campaign even though I hate cold-calling people.

bothering to vote, especially the ones who aren't crazy about the ticket in the first place.

Don't want to jinx anything, dontchaknow.

Even though I agree with you that it is far from a done deal and that Obama needs a buffer against voting irregularities, racism, last-minute negative attacks, and what not.

n/t

I've been burned too much and too many times. I'm enjoying watching the polls and I love our candidate but refuse to celebrate until mclame concedes on 11/4.

never mind.

I am VERY VERY VERY optimistic. Don't bust my balloon.

Won't rest until 11/05/08

I won't get excited until the fat lady sings. A 25% lead can be reversed by the machines.

having 'only' an 8-point lead.

superstitious to say or post it or have anyone else do the same. My son says being a Democrat is like being a Red Sox fan before 2004. (He's always making baseball/politics analogies--pretty good ones, too.)

just call me Eeyore.

I'd rather be a few points up than a few points down but the other side has many weapons in its arsenal and absolutely no moral/ethical qualms about using them.

Also the reliability of the polls has to at least be questioned since one of the candidates is a member of a long-disdained ethnic minority. That counts for something; I'm not sure how much but *something.*

If the economy were not in a shambles... possibly on the way to a complete meltodown... McCain would be well ahead despite being utterly inferior to Obama in every way.

That's something to think about.

is that if Sen. Obama's poll numbers stay strong, some people may not show up to vote. Hopefully, no one will take anything for granted.

Inside I feel like jumping with joy at the poll numbers. But then I remember all the nasty political tricks the Republicans and their tools in the media have participated in. I'll pop the cork on my champagne when Obama is announced the winner on all the major networks.

I can dig it though

you'd have to be very young indeed, not to watch all this with abject terror

this could be the beginning of recovery

or the spark that sets off the worst tyranny in us history

either way... I'm ready

ANYTHING to win this so I hope Obama and campaign will be ready for everything the McSHAME campaign is going throw out. So far the Obama campaign has done very good and appropriately responding.

And the confetti isn't colorful enough.

And, yes, there is both the Bradley Effect and election fraud (vote caging as well as machine fraud).

More specifically the closet racists who would lie to or just not be polled. I assume the republican party is filled with racists anyway but I am worried about the ones in our own party or who are independents. Will so many of them come out on election day just to vote against a black man?

That is what worries me in the end, that in the end it will be all about race. Are we a more enlightened country circa 2008? I hope so, and I hope to be proud on election night of how far we have come and where we are headed. But I am wondering.

This time I am excited but with more caution.