Sept and October 2004: Remember well the feeling we had back then

[Stinky The Clown]

Hopeful.

Road to Victory

Taking back the country

Gunna win

Polling well

Anger in the countryside/throw the bums out

While I'm more bullish today than I was this time 2 years ago, I am far less cocky.

How are you feeling?

[liberal N proud]

1. Worried about how they will screw us this time

[blm]

2. Like the GOP is still in control of the corpmedia and voting machines.

And that even a 5MILLION vote lead can be stolen.

[stellanoir]

3. I felt tentative in those months.

I was deeply concerned about the EVM's and optical scanners.

I only felt hopeful on the evening of November 2nd from about 7-11 PM.

Then I was devastated for about two whole months.

I marvelled over the systematic and efficient way in which the Dem vote was suppressed and thwarted in so many ways in so many places. Would that it were those in charge could be as thorough and effective in any other single regard.

[Marnieworld]

4. mixed emotions

I am not nearly as optimistic as I was in 2004. I truly believe due to lack of free press and rigged elections that we are already a totalitarian state. All of the pomp and circumstance of democracy is just a show now to give the illusion that we are a republic. We can have demonstrations so the populace, if somehow they learn enough to be angry, can protest because they have no impact if they aren't reported at all. Despite all of the polling data I will be shocked if the Dems take even one part of Congress. Shocked.

But I must say that recently I felt a bit more optimistic, just a little, by two articles.

One that the RNC is spending $60 million on this election vs. the DNC $12 million. If the fix was in completely why spend so much? It seems desperate and aware of extreme vulnerbility. So their fear gives me hope.

The other is the fact that the * administration is desperate to have their crimes considered legal by new legislation that must happen immediately. So all of the torture, no due process, privacy violations etc. could harm them, if not make them vulnerable to prosecution if they are out of power. This big push wouldn't be so necessary if they knew they had nothing to fear.

But I am so tired from hoping only to be defeated that even this only gives me a little hope.

[newscott]

5. I had no such feeling. After all, the fix was in.