for example, take my wife... please. (yes, another F911 thread)

[FranzFerdinand]

so my wife turns to me as we're attempting to get out of the theater parking lot that was *mobbed* for what I am assuming all day of people trying to get in and out too see F911, she says in her "help me do laundry" voice, "he isn't going win... is he?".

my heart sinks when i think about Bush winning. i cannot stop spreading the word about getting the vote out, pushing for Kerry and getting people to want to see F911. it's hard and my wife just laughs most of my paranoia off. she never liked Bush and wouldn't vote for him in a million years but, she always stopped short of being interested in how corrupt this administration really is. she doesn't want to know, she just wants him out. basically, i tell her "we're voting Kerry" and she says "roger that." and we move on and keep the crap of this world outside of our house and try to maintain some sort of American dream between us.

so... is Bush going to win? and what do we do if such a thing does happen? are there enough 18-20 year olds in this country to get out there and vote at their first opportunity?

i'm just going by experience, but it would seem to me we could possibly have the greatest voter turn out in the history of this country. could Kerry win by such a landslide that there will be no way to put the fix in this year?

argg... oh yeah, we just saw F911. i give it 9-1/2 out of 10 joints and two bald eagles up!

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

1. Hey I just bought Franz Ferdinand's CD

And no, I honestly don't think he'll win.

Get out and register people to vote. Contact your county's Democratic party and find out how to be a voter registrar. It usually just involves filling out a form and having them sign it. Then you can register people to vote on the spot, no mailing it in.

[Eloriel]

2. IMO, if the election is an honest one

Bush will lose in a landslide (barring the possible effects of another terrorist attack, which this administration has PROMISED us WILL happen, and probably before the election, when they need it most).

However, there are those pesky, riggable computerized voting machines to worry about, along with vote suppression techniques like those used in FL in 2000 and 2002, and also old fashioned election fraud.

I'm holding my breath. It seems to me it's possible, if we get out plenty of new voters of all ages (who don't show up in polls, as a rule, or so I'm told), and/OR if we're able to successfully fight some of the other voting issues, we might be able to swamp them.

[3 Cents and Change]

3. Who knows?

This isn't the place to ask to get a real answer though. Here, everyone I've met thinks there is no way a rational person could even consider voting for Bush. The Bush people say the exact same thing about Kerry, that there is no way he can win without a rigging of the election. Unbiased perspective is not the strength of DU.

In 'real life' everyone I know is either in the Kerry camp or the Bush camp and guess what, there are rational people in both of the sides. I have yet to meet more than one person that is actually undecided on this election. Everyone else is either going to vote for Kerry or vote for Bush regardless of what happens.

I think it has a lot to do with the fact that politics has gotten so nasty lately.