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exsequarSo if you peek around at my journal you might see some changes! Fittingly enough, I changed my journal to reflect my passionate and starry-eyed love and hope for Barack Obama. Header, default icon, userinfo, titles and subtitles.
That we are one people
that we are one nation
and together we will begin the next great chapter
in the American story
with three words that will ring
from coast to coast
from sea to shining sea
yes we can
~Barack Obama
Can't wait to watch our boy in the debate tonight! ♥
I know that I may seem to be overly optimistic, even naive. This is probably true. I have never before followed an election closely, and therefore have never been burned when my emotional investment was great. When Kerry lost, I was 16/17 and apathetic. Disappointed, but not overly invested. This time... this time it's personal. The higher my hopes, the greater their fall, I know that.
But I don't think I am wrong. I think that McCain and his (remaining!) cronies will make these last three weeks as ugly as they can. They will try to undermine the mandate that Obama will have entering office (which is just petty and stupid - they claim to put country first! Ha I say. HA.) because that is the last thing they can do. Unfortunately, I don't think McCain is one who can possibly admit defeat. There is NOTHING he can pull from his hat to save his ass at this point. NOTHING. Seven national tracking polls show Obama with a double digit lead. Seven! Including Gallup and Research 2000! And at the same time, I think that polls are drastically underestimating Obama's support and turnout, for reasons I have mentioned before. I think that on election night, I am going to be weeping with sheer overwhelming joy as state after state turns a bright, cheerful blue. Do you know what would be wonderful? If Indiana went blue. It's the first state to report on election night, and it has gone red for decades. That first drop of blue would essentially clinch it, I think, and the rest would just be a progressively more and more drunken joyous celebration.
I can't wait.
The only question right now is how dirty McCain is willing to get. He's proven so far that that's pretty dirty. There could be some surprise lurking around the corner, but - wasn't the economy CRUMBLING INTO PIECES something of a surprise? Hmmm? And Obama dealt with that with poise and grace, and subsequently has had an unprecedented and mindboggling run of momentum. At this point, the only thing that could turn this around thoroughly enough to give McCain a win would be for some terrible, damning secret to be revealed about Obama without any question about its validity. But the chances of this happening are slim to absolutely zero, for two reasons: 1) Obama has been so thoroughly and evisceratingly vetted by both Clinton and McCain that it's extremely doubtful McCain's got something sitting under his hat, and 2) Obama. Is. A. Good. Person. Period dot. I just can't see there being anything horrible enough to turn around more than eight percent of the American public.
McCain is losing supporters left and right. Every day at Huffington Post there's a new post about some prominent Republican criticizing McCain and his campaign. Just yesterday, McCain's own brother scathingly condemned the campaign for how it has handled things. Which is entirely fair, given that I think a lot of the chaos and instability has been a result of bad miscommunication between McCain himself and his people. (At this point I can't help but picture the West Wing portrayal of a presidential campaign - a group of dedicated, brilliant people passionately supportive of their candidate and his message. I feel this strongly reflects Obama's campaign, while it's worlds away from the manipulative and counter-productive environment McCain's got going on. In FACT, I think the campaign people (cough Steve Schmidt cough) are having a hard time controlling McCain, because hey, he does have a brain and willpower, unlike one G W Bush. That's resulting in a lot of the confusion going on.) Wow that was a long parenthetical. ANYWAY. McCain is spiraling into disaster, and I see negative chance of his being able to rally in any significant way in these last days.
Obamaaaa! \o/
That we are one people
that we are one nation
and together we will begin the next great chapter
in the American story
with three words that will ring
from coast to coast
from sea to shining sea
yes we can
~Barack Obama
Can't wait to watch our boy in the debate tonight! ♥
I know that I may seem to be overly optimistic, even naive. This is probably true. I have never before followed an election closely, and therefore have never been burned when my emotional investment was great. When Kerry lost, I was 16/17 and apathetic. Disappointed, but not overly invested. This time... this time it's personal. The higher my hopes, the greater their fall, I know that.
But I don't think I am wrong. I think that McCain and his (remaining!) cronies will make these last three weeks as ugly as they can. They will try to undermine the mandate that Obama will have entering office (which is just petty and stupid - they claim to put country first! Ha I say. HA.) because that is the last thing they can do. Unfortunately, I don't think McCain is one who can possibly admit defeat. There is NOTHING he can pull from his hat to save his ass at this point. NOTHING. Seven national tracking polls show Obama with a double digit lead. Seven! Including Gallup and Research 2000! And at the same time, I think that polls are drastically underestimating Obama's support and turnout, for reasons I have mentioned before. I think that on election night, I am going to be weeping with sheer overwhelming joy as state after state turns a bright, cheerful blue. Do you know what would be wonderful? If Indiana went blue. It's the first state to report on election night, and it has gone red for decades. That first drop of blue would essentially clinch it, I think, and the rest would just be a progressively more and more drunken joyous celebration.
I can't wait.
The only question right now is how dirty McCain is willing to get. He's proven so far that that's pretty dirty. There could be some surprise lurking around the corner, but - wasn't the economy CRUMBLING INTO PIECES something of a surprise? Hmmm? And Obama dealt with that with poise and grace, and subsequently has had an unprecedented and mindboggling run of momentum. At this point, the only thing that could turn this around thoroughly enough to give McCain a win would be for some terrible, damning secret to be revealed about Obama without any question about its validity. But the chances of this happening are slim to absolutely zero, for two reasons: 1) Obama has been so thoroughly and evisceratingly vetted by both Clinton and McCain that it's extremely doubtful McCain's got something sitting under his hat, and 2) Obama. Is. A. Good. Person. Period dot. I just can't see there being anything horrible enough to turn around more than eight percent of the American public.
McCain is losing supporters left and right. Every day at Huffington Post there's a new post about some prominent Republican criticizing McCain and his campaign. Just yesterday, McCain's own brother scathingly condemned the campaign for how it has handled things. Which is entirely fair, given that I think a lot of the chaos and instability has been a result of bad miscommunication between McCain himself and his people. (At this point I can't help but picture the West Wing portrayal of a presidential campaign - a group of dedicated, brilliant people passionately supportive of their candidate and his message. I feel this strongly reflects Obama's campaign, while it's worlds away from the manipulative and counter-productive environment McCain's got going on. In FACT, I think the campaign people (cough Steve Schmidt cough) are having a hard time controlling McCain, because hey, he does have a brain and willpower, unlike one G W Bush. That's resulting in a lot of the confusion going on.) Wow that was a long parenthetical. ANYWAY. McCain is spiraling into disaster, and I see negative chance of his being able to rally in any significant way in these last days.
Obamaaaa! \o/
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Date: 2008-10-15 11:43 pm (UTC)I don't think you're naive to be believing in him as much as you are. I've seen tons of people with the same kind of hope, hell, I have the same kind of hope. It aint wrong to completely and utterly believe in someone for a change. In fact, I think it's really GOOD. People have to believe in something to get involved in politics, or else we have the sorry fucking state of affairs which Canada showed yesterday at the polls, where no one seemed to care AT ALL. So, good on you, Anne. I'll be crossing all my crossables until Mr. Obama is safely past the gate ♥
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Date: 2008-10-16 12:26 am (UTC)i'm really excited for this too
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Date: 2008-10-16 12:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-16 01:50 am (UTC)McCain's definitely gotten dirty about it. Heard yet another ad about how he is "friends with domestic terrorists". I think people are growing more skeptical of that kind of thing, though. I hope so.
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Date: 2008-10-16 03:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-16 05:59 am (UTC)& as for McCain, everything I've heard the past few weeks just really showcases how he's running his whole campaign into the ground. When candidates get so ugly toward an opponent . . . yeah, it can't turn out good. But I think Obama's handling it with real grace & confidence & that just makes me want to give him a great big hug.
(& I NEVER talk politics with people. The fact that I'm actually DOING so now means I'm SERIOUSLY excited about this election. It's GREAT. :D)
& DUDE. because my memory is FAILZ, I LOVELOVELOVE your new userinfo header! :D