Amybody else feeling the SHIFT?

[Turanga Leela]

This is totally anecdotal, completely unscientific, and based solely on my own biased observations...

Something is in the air. Kerry signs are popping up like mushrooms after rain. Kerry bumper stickers at the gas stations. At the Wawa (a local convenience store chain), I'm getting comments like "go kerry!" "all right!" "great sticker." And I'm giving them, too. Last guy with a kerry-decorated car I saw, I said "Kerry, excellent." The guy pointed at the guy in the passenger seat and said, "We work together, he's a Republican...but I'm making progress!"

People are PROUD of supporting JFK. I see Dem/Kerry T-shirts everywhere. Haven't seen a single Bush or Repub shirt. NOT ONE.

I live on the East Coast, in an area that tends to lean narrowly Dem. So I don't pretend to represent for any iother part of the country.

But, at leasst in my corner of PA, Kerry's got what can only be called MOJO. And it's growing every day.

I haven't let myself hope. I've always been afraid of the crushing disappointment if I am optimistic.

But I think, just maybe, the flame of hope is lit in my heart, and growing stronger every single day.

Rock on, Big John!

[TimeToGo]

1. Me too

But, I also have to say I am nervous -- because I know those guys are not going to play fair. They aren't.

[oddtext]

2. yes,

i think it's going to happen . . . or it will be more difficult to steal at the least.

[nostamj]

3. CONFIDENCE is catching on...

LOTS of work to be done.

MASSIVE TURNOUT is essential.

but, believe and achieve it: KERRY IN A LANDSLIDE


IN A LANDSLIDE

[HughBeaumont]

4. I'll feel the shift when more redneck wingnut vandalism occurs.

Pieces of scared brownshirt freeper shit. Those sons of bitches WANT a civil war.

"We have t' maike peepul thank that owr town is pro-Buyush. Let's steel s'm sahgns, Clem! Maybe it'll skeer the cawmehs intah votin' fer Gowrge. If that don't work, lets blow ther howses up!"

"Ah'm down withat dawg. Poot awn sum Sewperjoint, ah need t'git pumped UHP! FUUUUCK THIS PLAAACE UUUUUP!!"

[nine30]

7. Let them secede.

A little while ago Rush gave a perfect description of the core Republican base - Guys with pickup trucks with gunracks, shotguns, confederate flag and a couple of dead deer at the back. To which I might add-- belonging to "closely" knit families, where the parents are siblings.

Why not get ALL of them into one small new state somewhere in the South and let it secede from the Union. They can form their own militia Republican govt, and everybody gets to carry guns, as many of them and at all times. Lets see how and for how long they survive.

[SiouxJ]

5. I have been seeing tons of Kerry stickers

popping up all over. I live in a very Repuke town too. There are tons of Kerry lawn signs too. I've never seen anything like it in this town. Bush signs are being vandalized as well. I see them flattened and torn all over the place. I think people are really pissed at him, way more so than the media would have you believe.

[stellanoir]

6. something seemed to shift for me about 6 days ago.

It was around the time that reports of registrar's all over the place getting swamped with people wanting to vote for the first time surfaced. And at the time I realized that "American Idiot" was a number one hit (yay). Then more recently, the rapid exposure of the incident in Nevada (and Oregon) of some "shadowy" organization chucking Democratic voter registrations was also encouraging because they got caught so quickly.

Understand, that I've been obsessively writing e-mails, placing calls, and talking to people about BBV's for 18 months. Yes, it has more often than not been an exercise in total frustration.

But six days ago, I finally felt that the election of JK was totally plausible and even likely, even against all the odds he faces. October surprise not withstanding, I feel rather suddenly that his chances for election are better than they ever have been.

After this unbareably long national disgrace and nightmare, I'm finally hopeful. It feels great.