Does anyone have butterflies in their stomach over the upcoming election?

I was just commenting to my partner the other day that election night is gonna be totally freaky to me. Either way, it's just like totally intense. I will never forget 2000 and all the insanity that evening and the back and forth and then falling asleep finally at 2 am (with Dan Rather saying all those odd things) and waking up to the picture of Dubya and them saying that he was our next Prez. That was just too much.

I just have this warm glowing feeling of anticipation. And one of the "Let's act like we're ten points down" kind of posters, usually.

It started when the Bradley effect was brought up.

and then they have the military on stand-by for any potential uprising. I sure hope that we own our power if God forbid they did something like that. There are 300 million of us.

Because I think the country will vote overwhelmingly for Barack and they will steal this thing somehow.

Seems like they (McPalin's tribe) feel overconfident or something. Do they KNOW they are going to win despite having a lousy team and a lousy campaign?

I don't know the answer. They may simply be putting a good face on a disaster. I hope so anyway.

I'm still worried.

...and being logged onto DU all day.

...and being logged onto DU all day.

if a morning pond could smile

... everything from the past 8 years still tells me to be very worried about last minute 'surprises'.

I won't sleep well until the day AFTER Obama is inaugurated.

the election is almost the least of your rational concerns. Obama will far exceed the 270 EC votes he needs to win. Democrats will be in firm control of Congress. They won't be able to write any legislation they want without fear of a filibuster, but relatively speaking they will be large and in charge. Unfortunately they will be in charge of a class 5 disaster.

What worries me is that they will have the power nominally, but find they are in fact powerless to improve the national catastrophe now unfolding.

so it's not much different.

is that you are only 60 years old right now!

I'm scared in a way I've never been scared before, and I've lived through the Bay of Pigs, all the assassinations, Vietnam. Still, there is a terror in me about what's going to happen.

I'm scared for Obama and his family.

and I can see him on Mount Rushmore and coins. I just think he's noble that way.

As for my fear, it's just all that is at stake, combined with all that's going on. Plus, all the low consciousness of people who haven't gotten the memo that things have changed and the old ways/thoughts ain't gonna fly anymore...

is that the old ways/thoughts are, in fact, flying right now.

Just listen to McCain and Palin as they invoke all the ugliness of the 1950s.

I see his nobility, as well. Just like I remember it in JFK and Martin Luther King, Jr. And I am afraid.

to lower our vibrations. Fear is a low vibe; love is the highest. In the late 60s, with idealism in the air and talk of peace on the lips of the young, the most horrible things happened. And when horrible things happen, people shut down. They lose faith. We have to maintain that we shall overcome.

and then tell me I shouldn't feel this fear.

You're missing the reality boat, the history boat, the human nature boat, but welcome to DU.

Because the alternative is not something I want to even associate with. Reality is relative. We can choose happiness but so many people think it's dependent on outside circumstances. Of course, we all know how well THAT works out for us...

And for doomers, Carnahan proved that America will vote for a dead candidate, ask Ashcroft.

:hurts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Carnahan

Sucks to be Asscrack, ehh, losing to a dead man's wife. His own state loved him so.

Along with any faith in politicians.

1968 was a particularly turbulent year. I don't know how people survived the parade of tragedies: deaths of MLK and RFK, the riots (including the Democratic convention)...

And, he was crushed by Humpty and the Machine.

I quit a state job and did it again for McGovern until he bailed on Eagleton for being human. Started hanging out and living for myself after that, I was such a sweet and innocent young man.

Now I smirk at BO's "deceptively conservative proposals." Let's hope that it's a bait and switch to deceive his true Populist ideals. We desperately need someone to pretend as FDR pretended to be be in tune with the common person. All of our success and pleasant lifestyles that our parents enjoyed and we remember and expected to inherit stem from FDR's trying to convince us that he wasn't pretending, we were a hard sell at the time.

Tom DeLay has been quoted as saying that, "the purpose of this administration is to undo everything that FDR did." Time to start over, is BO the man to go back to when we were great, or is he just another tool of the machine?

Maybe we need a total system crash and a reboot in order to select a candidate. Hey, it's been done and it works.

Nobody had any idea of the shit we'd find ourselves in.

I am a foreigner but I think I have the right to use "we," as in "the world."

I'm afraid what will happen to our country, and our WORLD, if McCain and Palin win the election. I'm sure the last eight years will seem tame in comparison to the next four if that happens. I'm very encouraged by the polls and by how well Obama is doing, but I still have this lingering fear in the back of my mind that something will go wrong. I fear we won't survive a McCain presidency.

It's the most important election this country has faced in a century. It will determine, for all practical purposes, whether or not the United States will even exist.

What I'm concerned about is Israel striking Iran, with not only our blessing, but instigation. I get this feeling that behind the scenes the evil Dick is making phone calls, telling them what targets are okay and when to attack. Israel has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, and time for them is running out.

willingness and determination to elect him, but because the repulsive repugs are capable of anything. Nothing, but nothing is too dirty for them.

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and I'm not fluttery in the tummy.... I'm wetting my pants!

This whole election is being couched by the rightwingnuts as the good vs. Satan and Life or Death for the Republic. Progressives feel generally the same way, but we're just not so well armed.

When the clusterfucks of 2000 and 2004 took place, we screamed and ranted a little, and then we just bent over. We ended up, collectively, with a size 19 asshole, but we never rioted in the streets or shot anybody.

The Freepoids aren't like us. They only think Black/White, and if your interpretation differs from theirs, you must be evil. I don't agree that Freepers live in their mom's basement. I think they live in an alternate universe, and they're armed to the teeth.

I'm scared shitless for Obama's safety, as well as the survival of any part of this Republic.

I may even stay off DU for awhile. The idea that they could turn this election upside down and steal it has me depressed.