I can't help it. I'm going to stay gleeful and confident about John Kerry

[bigtree]

I don't see what purpose it serves to be pessimistic about our chances in the debates or in the election. I won't stop working hard. I won't stop watching and listening, and forming defenses to the crap spewed by the opposition and the media.

Besides. I think the campaign has passed into that area where folks are finally paying attention to what our candidate says, instead of what is said about him. You gotta believe that the media whores did everything to knock our guys down after both debates, yet we gained support, in spite of any negatives that were expressed. I think the filter's off. Look at the non-existent reaction of voters to Bush's latest sing-song about a 'global test'. No matter how many times they bring this up, it seems to fall as flat as Cheney's performance did with those who answered the polls.

Awhile back, the CW was that all John Kerry had to do was stand as an alternative to the unpopular president. He has, and I think we are seeing a favorable reaction from those looking for an alternative. Have we won yet? Course not! But, we should act like winners if we want others to percieve us that way. Anything short of that gives way too much credit to the counterfeit losers in the White House and their toady cabal in the media for their campaign of lies and distortions.

Stick out your chest and smile! We're with the party of change! We're with the winners! I couldn't be more proud of our campaign. As the Magistrate says: 'Let's Go Get Those Bush Bastards!' :kick:

[irancontra]

1. i feel ya. I saw Going Up river.. and I'm Pumped!!!

We're making progress, but it's HARD WORK!

[Hans Delbrook]

14. Great Movie

That was such a great movie wasn't it? I couldn't believe that 90 minutes went by so quickly.
My only disappointment was it didn't go into Kerry's work with the Select Senate Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. I think including an overview of the awesome work he did to settle the POW/MIA problem would have been the perfect ending.

[demnan]

2. I'm very optimistic and I'll tell you why

Although the Democrats as a party aren't probably going to sweep into congress, something about Kerry's Presidential manner is giving people the confidence to vote for him. I saw this last night in phone calls to two precincts, one in Fairfax County, Virginia and one in Prince William County, Virginia. Virginia might not go all blue this election, perhaps a larger section will go blue than the last time. And what resonates here is stomping in other places.

[bigtree]

3. As in all of the elections I have witnessed, this thing just began

a week or so ago.

John is the real deal. He is not putting on a show. He feels and knows every step he takes. And he loves the challenge. He loves the seriousness of the moment. He projects confidence and resolve. He speaks with compassion and conviction.

I think folks sense that Bush is in over his head and are anxious for mature stewardship over the Executive branch. That contrasts with the silly campaign of smears from this desperate president. Most folks know weakness when it unravels before them. Bush is slowly humiliating himself into oblivion.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

4. Great thread, thanks!

There is much to be said for acting like a winner. People are so afraid of overconfidence and too-high expectations that they are forgetting how much the public flocks to a winner.

This is why those way-out polls with * up by 11 were so dangerous and irresponsible. There are always those voters who just want to say they voted for the winner.

Fortunately for us, * went on TV in a widely watched debate and showed himself to be completely unprepared and, in fact, a loser.

C'mon, Dems, act like we belong in the White House, because we do! John Kerry is such the obvious choice, it shouldn't even be close!

[gauguin57]

5. I've been optimistic all along, because I see the reawakened Dems

in microcosm, in VERY CONSERVATIVE Lancaster County. This year, the local party recently organized the biggest Democratic rally in downtown Lancaster since JFK came here in 1960.

In Harrisburg, 40 miles to the north (and still in the conservative, Pennsylvania "T"), 25,000 people turned out for a Kerry Edwards rally.

Democrats here have marched in parades at town fairs (where they have been loudly booed, and occasionally cheered by grateful and marginalized fellow Democrats, but where have marched with pride as a full-blooded part of the community -- for the first time in, probably, decades).

The Democratic meetups are packed with volunteers ... the grassroots organization is fired up ... Kerry signs are up all over town.

If all that can happen in a conservative bastion like this, it's happening all across the country.

I don't tend to believe polls. Too many of them say different things, too much different methodology -- too easy to be flawed.

So yeah, I'm confident of victory. I'm confident our best days are still ahead. I'm confident that hope really is on the way.

[Texas_Dem]

6. I am feeling much better myself, but don't stop working because

the repugs sure are not letting up.

[bigtree]

7. Goes without sayin',

for me at least.

But looking at this race, I never expected our virtually unknown Senator to jump the incumbent, wartime president right away , yet he has been tracking even with him almost all of the way. This race took fire when the public got their first look at our candidate in the debate and found no resemblence to the carcaricture that the opposition had been pushing. Bush is a known quantity, a failure. John gets the benefit of the doubt with his proposals from folks who hunger for change in the face of Bush's 'more of the same'.

John's not letting up. He'll inspire the rest of us to the finish.

[inmania]

8. The momentum is building every day now...

...armed with the truth and fully functioning brains, Kerry/Edwards are unstoppable!

[bigtree]

11. Yow!

:bounce:

[newyawker99]

15. Hi inmania!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[inmania]

16. thanks for the welcome!

I've become addicted to DU and participated in the post-debate email/poll responses, but am just starting to post

[chum]

9. I'm Pessimistic

But I need to be that way so I will work hard to make sure Kerry wins.

[bigtree]

10. Hope John can make you smile tonight chum

:hi:

[Steely_Dan]

12. Love the word "Gleeful"

[bigtree]

13. Dance, Perdita! and, shepherds, blow!

Your reeds restrain no longer!
Till weald and welkin gleeful ring,
Blow, shepherds, blow! and, lasses, sing
Yet sweeter strains and stronger!
-
Florence Earle Coates