OK everybody be honest. Was there ever a moment when you doubted that this day would come?

[bluestateguy]

For me, publicly I never said anything too cocky and overconfident, lest I jinx things.

But privately, I always knew he was a two term president.

[Suich]

1. Never, not once!

Nate Silver fan here!

[Squinch]

14. Me too.

I did have fears about foul play, but I never doubted that the country was behind him.

Hey, you're missing some letters there!

[MichiganVote]

2. Well he did suck at that debate, but no not really. Esp. after the 47% remark.

That really sucked worse than the debate.

[Nay]

58. That was the point at which I knew Obama had it sewn up. That 47% video went viral, and bam,

Romney was toast. NO ONE, not even the dumb Pubs who dismissed the video, likes to think that Romney might, just might, be referring to THEM. And, of course, the effect on the non-political voters had to be pretty big. Actually, I was surprised that Romney got as many votes as he did.

[MichiganVote]

61. If GWB had made that remark, they could have explained it away as dumb ass

makes another dumb ass remark. But Rmoney was serious as hell to do with the nation what the Snyder admin. is doing in Michigan. And guess what? We're paying more to get less-a LOT less. But not the wealthy in this state, they're happy as the hogs they truly are.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. I was pretty sure - but I confess to some worries

about the voter suppression bullshit that was happening - wasn't sure where that would end up. Still, I couldn't ever wrap my mind around the concept of Mitt Romney as president. And I suspend my usual disbelief in God to thank him every day that that horror show didn't happen.

[RedCappedBandit]

4. I was confident.

Dreaded the alternative, but remained confident. I let others know it, too.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. From January 2008, I knew I'd see this day

There were definitely days when I was frustrated with self-destructive elements on our own side, but I always knew Barack Obama was too smart for the modern day GOP to really lay a glove on him. We could only beat ourselves. I'm glad beyond words that we did not.

[condoleeza]

21. Well, said, feel that way too.

[Thegonagle]

6. I thought it would be close, but the more Rmoney opened his stupid pie hole,

the more confidence I had in the President.

[JI7]

7. after that first debate which i don't think Romney actually won

but it was more the media whores and how they try to push a story . like what happened with Gore and the sighing. people who actually watched the debate said gore won right after but after the media whores pushing the right wing line the numbers changed.

so it was more the media whores and of course the republicans trying to prevent people from voting.

but i still felt mostly good about another win.

[jillan]

8. I was very worried about voter intimidation and rw owned voting machines & not enough

turnout to overcome whatever dirty tricks they were up to.

[sad-cafe]

19. I agree

it made me slightly nervous

[Hayabusa]

33. Same here

After all, they pulled that stunt twice before and I was afraid that they would go for the trifecta.

[smackd]

9. nope

[fadedrose]

10. Up till and including this morning....

I'm not always right, thank goodness....

[ZombieHorde]

11. I was uncertain at some point both times. nt

[Blue4Texas]

12. I always knew we had the numbers but did not know how far the thieves would go

[Thinkingabout]

34. I agree with you, they are dirty very dirty and would do anything to

We have already given them one election and don't want to repeat it. In talking to some die hard Republicans I don't think they really wanted Romney either.

[TTUBatfan2008]

13. Not really

None of the serious Republican contenders bothered stepping up to the plate. So they ended up with Romney because he could raise a lot of money compared to the other guys he was facing. Problem is Romney had zero moral high ground on Obamacare since he came up with it in the first place. Then he torpedoed himself with the 47% comment.

[CountAllVotes]

15. I knew Pres. Obama would be re-elected!

There is no competition for a man of his stature!

[HipChick]

16. I never believed in the TV pundits..

and believed in the hearts and good sense of the American people..

[0rganism]

17. for about a week after the 1st debate vs. Rmoney

he didn't really "bring it", made me wonder if he was just tired out and didn't want the job anymore. And the media didn't help either - total "Obama blew it" scene there for a while. Figured I'd just better sit tight and wait for debate #2.

[renate]

49. the gap between the first and second debates scared the poo out of me too

There was no denying that that first debate was an epic faceplant. Not because his performance would have been, in itself, so bad from anybody else, but because he was capable of destroying Romney completely, and he just sort of... stood there, instead. And the polls reflected that, which really scared me. I absolutely worried after that.

And if it hadn't been for the blessed Nate Silver, I would have worried a lot more leading up to Election Day. The Romney team were so confident, and I'm a weird kind of optimist-about-life-in-general who wants a 99% guarantee before I can really relax. Especially when the stakes are as high as they were.

Thank goodness it all worked out!

[catbyte]

18. I was concerned until the Republican primary season when they turned on the

batshit crazy crap and Romney careened to the right. That's when I knew we had it. I was still uneasy because I didn't trust all the Republican voter suppression, but I knew we'd win all things being equal.

[RB TexLa]

20. I knew we'd win when I realized Newt was the only candidate they had that I would want anywhere

near the phone for the 3AM call.

[kestrel91316]

29. You do realize that Newt is an evil madman, right?

[RB TexLa]

30. Yes, and I would choose him over Ron Paul, Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney, or Rick Perry

Like I said, that was when I lost all concern about losing the election.

[JI7]

37. i think that's the point, when Newt is seen the the most sane/safe choice

[TheKentuckian]

22. Not since he won the nomination in 2008

By "doubt", I would mean odds against. I'm not much on impossible there is always a margin for error.

[Tx4obama]

23. Now the new thing to worry about is ...

Now the new thing to worry about is ... we must make sure that four years from now when President Obama leaves the White House he leaves it in the hands of a Democrat!

It would be horrible watching Pres Obama leave the WH and a having Republican waving goodbye to him.

[charmay]

24. I worried just about every day from September to Election Day.

But that's just me. Now if we could vote out a few state repukes like Walker, Scott, and Kasich. Life would be good.

[Initech]

25. Nope. After the clown car candidate circus at the beginning of the year...

First it was Michelle Bachman, then it was Herman Cain, then it was Newt Gingrich who wanted to turn the moon into Disneyland... it was a never ending sea of stupidity. What sealed it for me was the workout photos of Paul Ryan in Time Magazine. All I could think was "this can't be for real can it?"

[Nay]

59. Oh, shit, I forgot about those workout photos!! Who on earth could ever have thought those

pictures would help Ryan and Romney??? It just goes to show how completely tone deaf the Pubs are when it comes down to it. Any woman would run screaming from a guy who published/showed her such pictures, because the pictures are the DEFINITION of a guy so self-involved as to be a caricature. How did the Pub leadership not know this? My interpretation is that the whole bunch of them are so self-involved that they have no idea what "self-involved" means. Many voters, I believe, would not be able to articulate this to themselves, but I'd bet they felt weirded out by those photos.

[Initech]

60. All I could think of was that he reminded of Ben Stiller in Dodgeball.

I kept waiting for him to say "At Globo Gym we're better than you!!"

[graham4anything]

26. No,me and Al Sharpton vocal!...and was I embarrassed at the behavior of everyone else in the media

all the Cutten Runners
debbie downers
sad sams
whiners
non believers

and especially Rachel and Ed, whom I no longer give two spits about anything they say after the first debate, when President Obama roped the dopes bigtime while Mittens flailed away forgetting that he spent his (whatever) and was left with nothing (and had nothing to start off with).

Most masterful chess match of all time.

I knew President Obama would be a two term president the day he won Iowa.
(and I am as confident(come back in 8 years and see) that Hillary will be following with 8 more years of President Obama, during which time President Obama will be asked to be US Supreme Court Justice and the court shall be either 8 to 1 or if Roberts gets really bored, 9 to 0.

and you can look it up.

[kestrel91316]

27. Not after about 5 minutes of the Rmoney campaign.

They were such complete buffoons, Obama couldn't have lost if he'd tried.

[abq e streeter]

28. Hell yes..With the voter suppression in its many forms, i thought they could very well steal it.

Although as the election got closer, i started feeling more cautiously optimistic.

[Lil Missy]

31. Never.

[Kalidurga]

32. There was no doubt in my mind this day would come and I was cocky about it.

I went so far as to even predict a House victory. That didn't happen. I was sort of right, gerrymandering has been shown to be the culprit in having so many Repugs in the House.

It was a rough couple of weeks after the first debate though. Some people I know that are conservative leaning were crowing for weeks that Obama was going to lose. All I could say is you are wrong time will tell and change the subject. Or I would go off on what an asshat Romney is.

When I first got wind Romney was going to tank badly was when he played Borat in Europe. Then I thought he couldn't get any worse and my entertainment was over. But, I was so wrong, he got much worse. Then while I was still reeling from how much worse, the 47% tape surfaced and then I knew it was over he would not recover from that and my conservative leaning friends conceded defeat.

[Mdterp01]

35. I was a nervous wreck on election night

Well I'm glad many of you were so confident, but my blood pressure and heartbeat were a mess on election night. Thankfully the picture became clear relatively soon.

[renate]

50. welcome to DU!

I'm glad, for your sake and everybody's, that the election was wrapped up so soon that night!

[DonCoquixote]

36. MANY

Because I knew the GOP were going to come all out prepped to do dirty ass tricks.

[Nye Bevan]

38. Absolutely. Those polls were way too close for comfort.

In retrospect I wish I had trusted Nate Silver more.

[LeftInTX]

39. Call me a worry wart

The repugs are just soooo evil.

[madrchsod]

40. not really

at times i had some doubts but as soon as mittens opened his mouth at the first debate i knew it was over

[ellisonz]

41. Nope

I wanted Mitt all along because he was a stinker

[flamingdem]

42. I was sure the only way Rmoney could win was fraudulently but...

I wasn't sure until late that day that this wasn't possible.

[renate]

52. exactly.

I wasn't worried about the election itself on Election Night, because by then the only way Romney could have won was by cheating, but the GOP has not exactly shown itself to be unwilling to cheat. I still remember Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 and I am not normally a conspiracy-theorist type. (I don't think that Florida was a conspiracy--just a miscarriage of justice--but I don't believe Bush won Ohio legitimately.)

[TeamPooka]

43. I knew back in 2008 we would be here for 8 years and many many more

Bush and his crew fucked up big time.
Hoover did too and we held the White House for 20 years.
I want the same now.

[Hekate]

44. Gods. What I prayed for most...

... was that he would live through the term, though I usually phrased it as "a long and healthy life." I'll continue to do that.

As for having a second term, after our experience with the Dubya appointment, and all the rest of the ripened manure they spread about the country, my hopes and fears collided.

Today has been a joyous day. I am so blessedly happy.

[backwoodsbob]

45. never doubted

Do I fall in lockstep with the President?...nope...But he is BY FAR the best man for the job

[nyquil_man]

46. The run-up to the GOP primaries made it clear that they weren't ready for prime time.

Only one candidate in the lot who had won a statewide election in the last four years.

And that was Rick Perry, who was elected in a state so solidly Republican that they would even elect a moron like Rick Perry.

[moondust]

47. H.L. Mencken

“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

[Raine]

48. I KNEW he could win an honest election but was afraid they would steal this one like the did

in 2000 thru election fraud.

[elleng]

51. Fear of election theft has been with me/us since you know what,

and has never departed, unfortunately.

GOOD THING it didn't work, but we can't stop now, and must be vigilant about the games they're playing in the States.

[Ecumenist]

53. NOPE, never...EVER.

[DevonRex]

54. I was like you.

One thing I know. This man knows how to run a campaign. And that debate performance? It wasn't planned like that. No. But we don't know the whole story there, either. It sure wasn't because he was overconfident and skipped prep. That is out of character. I think there was some presidenting going on that had to do with Libya and what he found out was really, really devastating. Being the president takes precedence over running for president.

The other thing I know is that this man has had the 8-year plan mapped out from the beginning. OFA changing from one election to the next, never disbanding after the first election; rather, growing and evolving and becoming more involved in the communities. Then the second election comes around and it's already in place, and it hit the ground running. I was never so proud as I was when I got the first call, so incredibly early, and was asked to meet with the head of OFA in my state for a cup of coffee. In my neighborhood!

And now, it's Organizing For Action. We will get our agenda through. Barack Obama had this planned out before he was even elected. It comes from his days as a community organizer. He built on that, made it national, and now he's giving it back to us. This is his gift. He is giving us the means to achieve our goals. The structure, everything. It's wonderful. All we have to do is take it.

[VOX]

55. Republicans have a record of contempt for fair elections...

While I've always felt Obama to be gifted and definitely two-term worthy, I also continually worry about Republicans' congenital hatred of fair elections and democratic processes. These guys never sleep, and thus I have some restless nights as well.

[pnwmom]

56. That was my problem, too. That, and all the emails from the Dems,

asking for money because the situation was dire!

[quaker bill]

57. No, I was predicting a 3 to 4 point win a year ago.

I did not think it mattered which of the repug troll patrol they nominated either, except that a couple of them might have made it a 7 to 10 point win. (Newt or Icky Ricky)

[louis c]

62. After the First Debate

I was really worried and I knew the President had to win the next two. But until he did that, I was worried.

[GoCubsGo]

63. Yes, the day of the "Citizens United" decision.

I thought the whole Democratic Party was fucked on that day. I'm glad that fear was for nothing.

[rocktivity]

64. Not after Mitt started refusing to show his tax returns

It took away the only advantage he had over Obama -- with independent and swing voters:



And if Obama had done better at the first debate, the margin of victory would have been that much larger.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1093243


rocktivity

[Rex]

65. NONE.

Did you see who the GOP put up against our POTUS? Clowns. Blustering windbags.

I had no doubt we would win again.