My nails are bitten down to little nubs.

[emmagrant01]

I voted 10 days ago, and so for me this has been over for a long time. Like many of you, I bounce back and forth between being hopeful and terrified. I can't imagine Obama could actually lose at this point, but still... we Dems have managed to fuck it up royally the last two times.

I was just looking at my election posts from 2004, here, here, and here. I really, really want to feel differently this time!

Either way, I think things are going to change tomorrow.

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[lauramcewan.livejournal.com]

:clings:

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

*clings back*

[gmth.livejournal.com]

but still... we Dems have managed to fuck it up royally the last two times.

No, we didn't. Never forget Gore won the popular vote in 2000. Those two elections were stolen from us. That's my biggest fear about tomorrow. This time, hopefully, the popular vote will be so overwhelming in Obama's favor that the voter suppression efforts will be rendered impotent. *fingers crossed*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

True, but it shouldn't have been that close in the first place.

If McCain somehow won, I can't help but wonder what would happen. With all the polls going Obama's way for so long, I shudder to think what the public response would be.

Gah. Need tomorrow to be over already. :-P

[deadcat-vagrant.livejournal.com]

I understood Bush's win the first time. He had a name going for him, along with a lot of media hype as to why Democrats is bad (Clinton being lawyerish about his extramarital nookie did NOT help that). People in this country being so damned afraid of a bit of cock and vag like they are ran the opposite direction in a hurray.


2004? ...I know that the votes in the state I lived in that year were subverted, but he still won by a horrible percentage across the board. That one I DON'T understand.

[vichan.livejournal.com]

I was ready to move to Canada after 2004, and you were one of the people that indirectly talked me out of it. Not that I would have done it anyway, but you made me glad to stay here and fight. Now I'm a proud Cleveland, Ohio voter. It's times like these that I'm glad I live here, lake effect snow be damned. Swing state power!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Aw, yay! And now your swing state vote counts for so much, unlike my Texas vote! Go you!

[ani-bester.livejournal.com]

I still personally think it was not you Dems who screwed up in 2000. I'm of the you was robbed opinion.

And the level of pissed off I will be if Obama losses because of shannenigens I can't even say.

That's my fear is Obama will loose there will be blatant evidence that fraud occurred . . . and no one cares. There is nothing more demoralizing than that. -_-

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

*flails*

Yep, that pretty much summarizes my anxiety!

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Argh, I read your 2004 posts and felt depressed all over again. It must go differently this time! Please, America, don't disappoint me again!!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It was sooo depressing. But at the same time, its pretty amazing that things may be very different this time.

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

And really, if Obama does manage to win this year, you have to chalk it up at least partially to those four extra years of Bush. The silver lining, perhaps.

But I will believe in victory only if I see it. *curls into paranoid ball*

[qurinas.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I can't go back to my 2004 entries. I will just feel sick.

Prop 8 is likely going down. It needs to. If we get a gay marraige ban in CA we can give up the ghost on it in other states for a while.

Obama is going to win the popular vote. However, that is meaningless. The south and midwest could screw us once more.

Arg.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Prop 8 needs to lose. Dude. SO important!

*chews nails more*

[sagcat.livejournal.com]

We're gonna win, Emma. We're gonna win. I know, I know - I'm struggling through the same exact day you are right now, but dammit - this time it will be different. We have the best candidate in my lifetime and all the external factors are working for us. Most importantly, people have finally come to realize what an incredible fuckwad George W. Bush is. It took some time, but there he is, being his fuckwad self for the world to see and people finally see it. They see what a fraud they are and they're going with the better person this time. The better philosophy.

We're going to win. Tomorrow = history. I'm stocking champagne.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Maybe I will put some champagne in the fridge. Just in case...

*wibbles*

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

We have to win this, for the sake of the world. It's not just America that's going to be affected. Having said that, I'd sure like to be able to walk down the streets of [fill in any country's name here] and be proud when someone asks me if I'm an American. I haven't felt like that in what seems like forever.

As for moving, I can't. I have too little money and too much family. I do know HOW to do it, though, if the opportunity and/or desperate situation arises. And anyway, were I ever to seriously consider a move to Canada, politics would only be one of the reasons.

[nike-victory.livejournal.com]

I'll admit that while I'm worried about whether or not Obama will make it, it's nothing compared to the worry I have that Amendment 48 will become part of my state constitution. A bunch of a**holes are taking advantage of the fact Colorado has one of the easiest state amendments to change (although that will change if Referendum O goes through) and we Coloradoans get to vote on whether or not our constitution will define a "person" as legally existing at fertilization. I don't think I need to tell you what a bad idea that would be.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I kept refeshing and refreshing Yahoo Polls yesterday. I keep doing it today and want to make myself stop. Either way, I'm goin' to bed early tonight.

[drgaellon]

To be fair, WE didn't f* things up in 2000, SCOTUS did.

I have no worries about Obama losing. I want to see 60 Dem seats in the Senate, and I want to see CA-Prop 8 and FL-Prop 2 go DOWN.