BEWARE THIS LANDSLIDE TALK!!!!, it could be dangerous

[AnIndependentTexan]

http://forum.johnkerry.com/index.php?showtopic=109074&st=0&p=699308&#entry699308

posted at Kerry/Edwards online forum by brookiesgram

There is nothing I want more than a decisive victory for Kerry tomorrow - but all this talk about a landslide makes me nervous. If our voters think that it is in the bag some might just stay home....AND WE CANNOT AFFORD TO HAVE EVEN ONE POTENTIAL VOTER STAY HOME BECAUSE THEY THINK THEIR VOTE ISN'T NEEDED.

I have this nastly feeling that we are playing in rovie's hands with all this landslide talk

[KingChicken]

1. We are going for motivation and momentum

We eant to get everyone engerized, but when we say landslide remember that it's not possible without the people going to the polls.

[KurtNYC]

2. Landslide

landslide baby!

(It wouldn't stop me from voting)

[Mr_Spock]

3. Well, it's motivation for me so i like it.

I can't imagine ANYONE feeling confident on our side - we're the lowly challenger!

[TexasSissy]

25. So...it's all about YOU, is it?

Think mandate, not landslide. Being positive is good. Being in la la land is bad. The only place another 20% can come from is from Bush supporters...and that ain't happnin.

[ScreamingMeemie]

28. From what I am seeing out on the streets while canvassing...and

the blogging done today...I ain't living in lalaland. Time for change and people realize it. I'll be optimistic...someone else can be pessimistic.

None of this polling includes 18-25 year olds. Landslide is quite do able. I'm believing. :hi:

[Mr_Spock]

29. Memememememmememememememmemememememmeme

It's all about me baby!

[deadparrot]

4. I don't think it will be a landslide,

but the more I think about the possibility of a Kerry win, the more energized I am to go out and do stuff.

[melody]

6. Precisely

Despair and doubt keep people home...hope drives people to action.
(I think that's Benjamin Disraeli)

[rndmprsn]

5. Decisive win...no disrespect meant

[bowens43]

7. No one is staying home.

Calm down.

[mikehiggins]

8. America WANTS to vote!

That's why there are long lines and that's why there may well be a landslide across the nation.

This time out people really WANT to vote, either for God's Chosen President or for the Voice of Reality. There aren't a lot of faint hearted folks out there who might be turned away because they think their vote won't matter. They WANT their vote to matter. They WANT their voice to be heard, and that makes all the difference.

I expect to see the kind of turnout Eminem only hopes for in his video, the kind that gives the political professionals and pollsters flaming nightmares.

I expect America to step up to the plate tomorrow, and swing away.

And won't that be wonderful?

[high density]

9. Only strong Kerry supporters are visiting these websites

Most of the people visiting the John Kerry forum or this forum are voting for Kerry no matter what happens tomorrow.

[AlinPA]

12. yep.

[doni_georgia]

15. I see it as motivational to get people fired up to vote

Anyone who would decide to stay home based on someone posting "Kerry in a landslide" is really pretty stupid. It's like cheering "We're Number 1" at a football game. Gets people psyched!

[sandnsea]

10. October Surprise - we fucked ourselves

I agree, it's foolish. Ignore the polls, up or down, good news or bad; fight for every vote.

And I will add, THAT is how the Kerry campaign won Iowa.

[SammyWinstonJack]

11. Why on Earth would anyone stay home?

I think every Kerry voter would want to be part of a "landslide!" But that's just me! :shrug: Oh CHENEY Rovie!

[donheld]

13. I totally agree

We need to fight like it's an absolute squeaker. We can talk about landslides come wednesday.

[rhyfeddu]

19. I DO believe the mainstream Polls are just plain WRONG, but..

I think for most folks sick of *, who only hear this "deadheat" talk on TV, that it will scare the bejessus out of them, and really motivate them to go out and VOTE! So it only works for us that the "liberal" media crystal ball is so wrong on this...

Having said that, I really think its going to be a clear victory for sanity - for Kerry!! :7

[KittyWampus]

14. Bullshit! No One Is Going To Skip Voting This Year

and it is highly beneficial to have confident expectations right now.

Undecideds vote for the percieved winner.

[BayStateBoy]

20. You Must Not Know the Fickle & Lazy Public. Post if Correct.

[LoZoccolo]

16. Agreed.

Someone may or may not neglect voting if things look good, but they are very likely not to if things look iffy. The former situation has one disadvantage for us, and the latter does not. Go with the latter.

[sonicx]

17. oh please, no one will stay home. we just wanna stay positve.

[AndyTiedye]

18. We NEED the Landslide Talk to Avert Electoral THEFT!

If all the buzz is a Kerry landslide, people will be much less willing
to accept another Bush* election theft.

We just have to remember not to get so carried-away that we forget to vote.
Fortuntely, a lot of our people seem to have voted already.

[Ugnmoose]

21. Believe me no one is staying at home

The early voting is a good indication of the level of determination of people to vote. Nothing is gonna stop them now. Finally, Americans will get off their asses and vote. To fricking bad it took four years of this shit to make it happen.

[StupidFOX]

22. Pessimism is more likely to supress votes

[troublemaker]

23. For Dems landslide talk is a greater motivator than too-close-to-call

Our people are in greater danger of staying home thinking they cannot possibly win than staying home because they're sure of victory.

Most importnaty, though, this is DU. Landslide talk is a tiny counter-balance to the vast media pro-Bush message.

[theangrydem]

24. Agreed!

Just vote!

[Warren DeMontague]

26. Okay. I Won't Say "LANDSLIDE"...

But am I allowed to say "SHRUB-DRUBBIN'"?

:)

[TexasSissy]

27. Hoping for a MANDATE!

[mzmolly]

30. Everyone wants to be part of this historic moment.

:hi:

I won't say the word but...I'm not afraid ANYONE will stay home on our side.

[missouri dem]

31. I have been using LANDSLIDE on republicans for weeks

and it is very powerful. I have convinced several not to bother to vote.

[spanone]

32. Kerry Landslide ----This is the only place I CAN say it!

[richardk]

33. It won't be a landslide if...

It won't be a landslide if people stay home because their vote "isn't needed" if you say and do just that I can assure you it WONT be a landslide, because when someone does win in a landslide it's because their base came out in record numbers, and very few stayed home.

Remember, landslides are not won when people stay home, they are won when people VOTE.

[The River]

34. LANDSLIDE....

AVALANCHE
PERFECT STORM

You give Rove way too much credit.

[Thrill]

35. Stop the landslide talking altogether

With the way this evil Republicans work you know they are going to try to cheat