There's a rip in the space time continuum... the election is clearly three days from now

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

This is the Saturday before election day. I've seen plenty of these things and this is not what a presidential election feels like 10 days out.

We are at the point where nothing anyone says matters, everyone starts ignoring polls as backward-looking and the focus turns from media to ground-game. But we're there a week early.

It's like an extra week was inserted into a normal election cycle as an experiment to see how much more ridiculous things can get.

Anyone getting the same feeling?

[crazy_vanilla]

1. quick, close the wormhole

before we all drift back in time and endure another 8 years of Boooooosh :hi:

[Democat]

2. Maybe all of the early voting has ripped time/space?

As more and more people vote early, a late October surprise would make less and less difference.

Maybe that's part of what you're feeling?

[WinkyDink]

3. That might be it. We're hearing about votes before Election Day!

[nc4bo]

4. Just the huge number of Early Voting tells me there's something different going on in '08.

I'm so encouraged but I keep just a bit of pessimism in reserve but WOWWEE the signs of hope are becoming clearer and clearer.

[Jersey Devil]

5. You expressed it well

I have been thinking along the same lines. I've been involved in many elections as a candidate and as part of campaign staff. At a certain point, usually just before the last weekend, when you talk to people you can see that their minds are made up and they begin to ignore anything else sent to them, said to them or any ads. I think we've reached that point a week early as well.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

6. Yeah, there's a going through the motions quality

Everyone knows what they need to know.

Dems are irritated about having to wait.

Pugs are irritated having to go through the charade another week.

In the context of real crisis the election has lost all dramatic value... the remaining days are just an irritant.

It's like the ending of RETURN OF THE KING... the dramatic arc is finished but the movie won't stop.

[Kaleko]

7. Yeah. The tide is no longer turning, it HAS turned.

And it is sweeping former Republicans and undecideds along with it en masse.

You can see it everywhere: it is no longer acceptable to toe the Bush party line. Whoever does, will get his feet crushed. Public opinion has overwhelmingly swung back to common sense.

[K Gardner]

8. "We are at the point where NOTHING anyone says matters" Yes ! Thank you ! This is the

feeling I've been having and that I truly believe. There cannot possibly be anyone left who hasn't made up their mind or whose support is so SOFT they can be swayed, especially by HATE SPEECH and negative attacks.

Thank you !

[leftist.]

9. More anecdotal evidence that what you are saying might be true.

It involves hate radio and it happened overnight. Thursday's shows talked about how the "joe the plumber / spread the wealth around" message was "starting to resonate" with voters (to be fair, if the US had a dime for every time Hannity said "I sense that this is starting to resonate" we could retire the national debt). All along the AM dial the shows were, imo, mostly optimistic. Friday's shows were 180 degrees out of phase. Rush was bitter, angry, and clinging to his guns (other DU'ers commented on it as well) and Hannity - while still attempting to buoy spirits by cherry picking polls - spent a lot of time on his "conservatism in exile" message.