Enthusiasm Gap? Hmmmmmm......Let's See:

[rbilancia]

26,000 at the WI rally.

18,000 at the Philly rally.

Full house in DE.

Big Dog = Big Rallies and Full Houses all over the country.

Full house and overflow in Boston today.

Dems offices busy all over the country, and Dems even working from home all over this nation. In Maine, our phonebank schedules in our local Dem office are FULL. Our candidates and their volunteers are busy all over my state.

So enough of this crap ! The pro-GOP corporate media is trying to suppress our turnout with all these manufactured reports about "enthusiasm gaps" and low estimates. PISS ON THEM ! Get out, work in your local Dem office or even from home, VOTE, and take some people with you ! And then give the corporate media and their GOPTeaScumBags a great big shitburger to eat !

[MadMaddie]

1. Got our ballots in the mail yesterday

Number one task for the weekend! VOTE!!

[emulatorloo]

2. My Dem headquarters tells me that there are TOO MANY volunteers for the space, they are looking

for a larger space for the last push on the weekend before the election.

[rbilancia]

5. Interesting. What city and state?

[emulatorloo]

6. Eastern Iowa

[rbilancia]

8. I hear Dem early voting is rocking the house there too. GREAT. Keep it up. A national model !

[babsbunny]

3. They will attempt to steal these elections

after all, look at the polls..........I know better.

[rbilancia]

4. Since last winter they have been trying to suppress our vote with manufactured low estimates.

[Whisp]

7. K&R. thanks for posting that.

the media are a bunch of fucking lieing asshole shitheads.
I can't say that often enough.,


the media are a bunch of fucking lieing asshole shitheads.



the media are a bunch of fucking lieing asshole shitheads.



the media are a bunch of fucking lieing asshole shitheads.



the media are a bunch of fucking lieing asshole shitheads.



the media are a bunch of fucking lieing asshole shitheads.



the media are a bunch of fucking lieing asshole shitheads.

[Tarheel_Dem]

9. What you said!

:applause:

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

10. How do you explain Nate Silver's "doom and gloom"?!?! n/t

[rbilancia]

11. These predictions are based on ASSUMED low D turnout. If we GOTV and Dems vote, we'll be ok.

[Kdillard]

12. Silver's predictions are a large spread that can go either way. Republicans

can either capture the House and Senate by strong margins or they can fall short. Now the question is will Dems step up and make the night a painful loss for the Republicans or will they step back and allow Nate's worse case scenario to happen. Decide what you would rather see because Republicans have made it clear what they will do once they get back in charge.

[rbilancia]

13. Spot on ! MANY of these races are CLOSE and could tip either way. LOTS of ASSUMING with Nate.

[oswaldactedalone]

14. I'm going all in today

on my final contributions for Dem GOTV efforts. I don't make much but we have to get this done. One communication tool you might consider using is your email address book. I've been sending reminders to my Democratic friends in my address book about voting, reminding them to vote, and encouraging them to do send messages as well. I've also forwarded fundraising emails to them as much to familiarize them with Dem fundraising groups as anything else.

Be creative over the next two weeks, and it'll help us pull this off.

[rbilancia]

16. You can phonebank from home via Organizing For America. Also check with your local party office.

[LatteLibertine]

15. People need to remember

demoralizing the other party is an effective and often used tactic to depress voter turn out.

Wall street wants you to stay home so they can keep as many puppets in office as possible.

That's the only real weapon we have against them; our vote.

So stay positive and get out and vote.

[rbilancia]

17. Yes, and please donate even a little time phonebanking to GOTV. You can even do it from home.

[GoCubsGo]

18. This demoralized voter has every intention of voting

Screw the media and the horse they rode in on.

The Dems are lucky they have the Big Dog to go out and campaign. And, as much as the media would like to make may an issue of his being more popular than the current President, he's not being forced to lay low like his predecessor and successor. Anyone see Dumbya on the campaign trail this year? Me, either.

[whatchamacallit]

19. I don't know if a little honesty is welcome, but here goes...

I'm not enthused. It's hard to be enthused when your sole reason for voting is to stop republicans. Yeah, it's that bad. IMO the nation and its representatives have veered so far off course that participating seems like self betrayal. It's a little like being expected to root from the bleachers at a game you no longer recognize or understand. I will vote of course as it is my civic duty, but no amount of pep talking, speech making, or guilting is going to enthuse me.

edit for typo

[chowder66]

20. Not enthused today but what about tomorrow?

I'm enthused to keep my party in power. 30 years of republican destruction, 8 years under Bush of unleashing and showing the destruction, almost 2 whole whopping years of Dems trying to stop the bleeding..... actually they are still trying to diagnose the problems and stop the bleeding at the same time. It's like a patient with 100 symptoms and while three have been diagnosed and treatment is starting.... new symptoms are flaring up and causing havoc so the doctors move quickly to those to diagnose and treat and it happens over and over. I'm enthused not just to keep republicans in the minority but to give our party a chance to improve on the issues, to fix the issues....it will still be messy but at least they are on the job trying to identify and treat the problems. I stay enthused because my party needs me and that is my part in this. Voting is not just a decision, it is a responsibility that does not end once a vote is cast.


Only you can enthuse you, no one else can do that for you. You can look for that enthusiasm or not.



I wish you happy hunting.

[whatchamacallit]

22. That simple formulation doesn't really work anymore

When does your party cease to be your party? How many compromises for political expedience does it take before the fight is more over emblems than ideals? These days if it weren't for the republican's batshit rhetoric, it would be difficult to tell the parties apart on many substantive issues. I will vote dem because there is no real alternative, but the true score is in the realities all around us. Team spirit no longer holds me.

[rbilancia]

24. Go You-Tube the Maddow show where she outlined the AWESOME amount of accomplishment under Obama/D's.

[prolesunited]

21. And funny how you haven't seen many stories

about these successful rallies. The media has written its narrative and is ignoring all evidence to the contrary.

[realistiko]

23. Probably because rallies are not scientific tools

Polls are.