I am steeling myself...
... for the last 2 1/2 months until this election is over. The right-wing and the Tea Party have taken over the Republican Party and they have one of their own on the ticket with Paul Ryan, with a former moderate that is willing to do their bidding, so long as he gets to continue stuffing his greedy pockets.
They have all their chips in this coming election. Nerves will be frayed and tension will be high for the next few weeks. Preserve your energy for the marathon to come. We haven't seen anything yet. It is a death match. Don't underestimate that.
There will be a huge price to pay for the Party that loses this election. It is about the people vs the 1%. The Tea Party feels that their time has come and they are ready to take over this country once and for all. Democrats can say goodbye to a lot of programs, including Medicare, if the right-wing wins this election.
How important is this election? Very important. It is not just another election. There is much more at stake in this election than any in our lifetimes. That is what we must fight for and what we must defend. It is discouraging and depressing in a lot of ways but they will steal this election if they get the chance.
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that I can watch/listen to them; no patience for that. Probably focus on removing cantor, some phone banking for President Obama, and poll-watching in Virginia.
Israel will unilaterally attack Iran.
To say this put Obama in an awkward position would be the understatement of the year.
The conventions are just a show. The debates are going to be important. I am bias but I really think Pres. Obama is gonna hand Rmoney his ass on a silver platter. He is so vulnerable on so many issues that I just can't see how he does not implode.
I honestly believe that if we can hold the White House this cycle and then again in 2016 (which may be harder) then in 2020 things may begin to break our way.
The demographics are in our favor and I really think that in about 8 more years they will make enough of an impact that our job starts to get easier.
http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/articles/aia2010031101/
The increase in the nonwhite share of the electorate over the next decade will have major consequences for electoral competition. If the Democratic Party is able to maintain anything close to the overwhelming advantage among nonwhite voters that it enjoyed in 2008, Republican candidates will need to win a considerably larger share of the white vote than their party’s candidates did in 2008 or even 2004 in order to remain competitive in national elections. Under these circumstances, even a 60 percent share of the white vote would not be enough to give a Republican candidate a majority of the popular vote and the last Republican presidential candidate to win more than 60 percent of the white vote was Ronald Reagan in 1984.
An alternative path to victory for Republicans in future national elections would involve seeking to expand their Party’s support among nonwhite voters. By winning a larger share of the nonwhite vote, a Republican candidate could be elected with considerably less than 60 percent of the white vote. But this would require the GOP to move away from its conservative base and closer to the ideological center because nonwhite voters tend to be strong supporters of increased spending on social programs and activist government.
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Along the same lines, 65 percent of nonwhite voters, including 64 percent of African-American voters and 73 percent of Hispanic voters, supported the creation of a single-payer health care system in the United States compared with only 15 percent of Republican primary voters. And given a choice between more government services with higher taxes and fewer government services with lower taxes, 67 percent of nonwhite voters, including 67 percent of African-American voters and 68 percent of Hispanic voters, chose more government services with higher taxes compared with only 25 percent of GOP primary voters.
You can take a look at this forum on any given day, and it looks like Grover Norquist and Jane Hamsher had an illegitimate baby, and that baby threw up all over GD. It's fascinating just how similar the talking points are between the two factions.
I swear, I think there's a talking points clearinghouse somewhere, where they get instructions to spread out over the entire internet and throw up huge chunks 
You can rest assured that if it seems like a good news day for the president, and a bad day for Rmoney, DU's anti Obama faction gets to work immediately to "tamp down" any perceived enthusiasm, no matter how far back in the archives they have to dig. "Obama's Secret Plan to Kill Medicare". Kinda like the other side who are convinced that "Obama's A Secret Muslim". I realize it's exhausting for some of the president's supporters, but I find it comical that they actually believe typing angry screeds on an internet forum is activism.
I agree with you, this election is crucial. With possibly two USSC retirements, I shudder to think what a Rmoney WH and GOP dominated Congress will do with that. On every issue, Democrats are much more in line with most of us here. 