Anyone else getting that '92 feeling?

[Must_B_Free]

of a country tired of being held back?

A country that won't stop thinking about tomorrow?

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. Angry people who are not counted as "Likely Voters"

Yeah, I have that feeling.

[Newsjock]

2. 1892?

Thank you, Chimpy, for taking us back to the 19th century.

[freetobegay]

3. Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow

If you wake up and don’t want to smile,
If it takes just a little while,
Open your eyes and look at the day,
You’ll see things in a different way.

Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here,
It’ll be, better than before,
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.

Why not think about times to come,
And not about the things that you’ve done,
If your life was bad to you,
Just think what tomorrow will do.

Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here,
It’ll be, better than before,
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.

All I want is to see you smile,
If it takes just a little while,
I know you don’t believe that it’s true,
I never meant any harm to you.

Don’t stop, thinking about tomorrow,
Don’t stop, it’ll soon be here,
It’ll be, better than before,
Yesterday’s gone, yesterday’s gone.

Don’t you look back,
Don’t you look back.

[bluestateguy]

4. No, I'm getting the 2000 feeling

Where the race appears to be opening up in favor one candidate and then tightens up, and then widens again, and tightens again. And of course the Bush Secret Police are already setting up to steal the election.

1992 was different. In October of that year the race tightened for the whole month, but then opening up in favor of Clinton during the last weekend before the election.

[tedoll78]

5. Well..

There's still time. The race has been tight for pretty much the entire month. If anyone's taken a lead nationally, I'd bet that it hasn't been more than 3% on average. It could open-up in the final 5 days or so..

[charleston1]

6. The undecideds will break to Kerry

The question is which poll to believe on how many undecideds are really left and if they will show up at the polls.

[Skittles]

7. tentatively, yes

I can feel a desire for change in the air but cannot get the stolen election out of my mind

[charleston1]

8. No one can

That is because in a very real sense you were violated and can't undo the damage. All the more reason to GOTV! Don't get mad, get even.

[tedoll78]

10. Yup.

The only real question is "Who shows-up?" So far, based on early voting numbers, we're kickin' butt where we need to.

I've pretty much reached the conclusion that we won't see any more honest-to-god poll swings for the rest of the campaign, barring some shocking event or effective commercial.

!!!--> What we're currently seeing in polls are not actually preference shifts, but shifts in sampling by party identification.

It's been pretty consistent at this point that:
- Bush will win about 90% of GOP voters.
- Kerry will win among independents/moderates, but the margin is yet to be determined.
- Kerry will win about 90% of Dem voters.

Assuming that these three hold true, and assuming that we get our base out, we win. Those are sound assumptions, and this doesn't count newly-registered voters.

[mellowinman]

9. Totally.

We're taking our country back and they can't stop us!

[KharmaTrain]

11. 1980 In Reverse

That year Jimmy Carter had the "Rose Garden" campaign and stayed in the White House while Raygun ran all over the place (including sending Poppy to Teheran) and got some real strong last minute momentum.

This year we have the "Rose Colored Glasses" campaign...and I've been feeling a strong but steady momentum building since the debates. People needed a reason to accept Kerry and they have, it's just a matter of this regime imploding further...which it will.

I'm predicting Kerry at over 300 EVs.

Cheers!

[Orsino]

12. Ask me again after the election

While I believe there is similar dissatisfaction with "trickle-on" economics and imperial adventurism, the difference between this year and '92 is the even greater media consolidation.

I don't think that anti-Bush(II) sentiment is given the same play that anti-Poppy feeling received. That we are allowed to see it at all is evidence, I hope, of massive resentment against Junior.

Then too, Kerry simply ain't the Big Dawg. Folks don't love him the way they loved Clinton--and they never will, unless he manages to undo a LOT of the damage * has done. I'm afraid that even the ideal progressive President couldn't fix what the Bushes have broken, not even in eight years.

I see Kerry mainly as a run-of-the-mill corporate conservative. It's both sad and hilarious that HE is painted as some sort of liberal, and merely sad that he's the only alternative to four more years of creeping fascism.

Voting for Kerry is a no-brainer, and this makes the persuasion of thinking voters easy. I yearn for a "brainer," though. Wouldn't it be nice to have a presidential election in which careful study were needed to identify the most progressive candidate? Even better: I'd like to see more thinking voters, ones who use their forebrains when casting ballots, rather than their gonads.

[kostya]

13. Yep, I do, and here's why...

Everytime I see a picture of Kerry he is relaxed and confident. Nearly every picture of Bush shows a man struggling. This gives me flashbacks to Bush/Clinton. - K