Obama Panic: President's Supporters Discuss How They Cope

[Tx4obama]

Obama Panic: President's Supporters Discuss How They Cope

FAIRFAX, Va. -- The mood among supporters of President Barack Obama shortly before he took the stage at a Friday morning rally in Fairfax, Va., was pleasantly abnormal. Attendees said they were calm and cautiously optimistic about the state of the race, a far cry from the abject panic that had paralyzed them the week prior.

Much of it was owed to the president's strong second debate performance several nights before in Hempstead, N.Y. Obama-backers took heart in the zest he exhibited in attacking Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. That, combined with the stability the debate helped create in several swing-state polls, and Democrats were breathing a bit easier.

The calm also was owed, however, to the emotional weariness Democrats have begun to feel over the past two weeks. Simply put: Obama's most ardent supporters are growing more calloused to the roller coaster that is the final weeks of a presidential election.

It hasn't been an easy task. Attendees at the George Mason University event described various means used to cope with political panic, whether prompted by a poor debate performance or a particularly gnawing poll.

"Lipitor," said Edward Kimmel, an attorney, when asked how he stays calm. "I am a political junkie. I see all the talk. It makes me nervous. The first debate was tough. That was kind of like when Ted Kennedy died and we were watching health care slip away, or the night of the 2010 elections. But that just makes me work harder. I wanted to get out and go to work."

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Full article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/19/obama-panic-presidents-supporters_n_1989933.html

[underthematrix]

1. PBO supporters know what the problem is but

they are afraid to call it by it's name because they believe we've come too far in the last 50 years to even let that ugly possibility take root. Okay so I'm just gonna say it. The Republican Party as we knew it is dead. It does not exist. The current Republican Party has turned into a white supremacist/Nazi party. I'm sorry if I sound harsh but that's what it is. Take a look at the 23 year old who was arrested for felony fraud. He looked like a skinhead to me. Sarah Palin gave voice to the undercurrent of ugliness that we have managed to mostly keep at bay for the last 50 years. Domestic terrorist breathe life into it and we've been dealing with it ever since. We need to tell people the truth. If you are old enough to remember like I am, you need to tell people what we are seeing looks a lot like pre-civil, women's and gay rights. Everyone needs to vote like their life depended on it because it does.

[Faygo Kid]

2. "The Republican Party as we knew it is dead." Indeed.

Well said. Never mind the GOP of Lincoln, the Republican Party of Dewey, Ike, Ford, Javits et al - even the integrity of Barry Goldwater, even the optimism and willing to work across the aisle (gulp) of the abysmal Reagan, is dead and buried.

It's now the party of Fox, Limbaugh, Joe Walsh, Free Republic, Koch brothers. It's a party consumed with hate and loaded with money. They must be stopped.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

3. yes, I agree. I think the thing that we're fortunate for

Is the intertubez.......Pre-Nazi Germany didn't have a massive worldwide communication method, so it was much easier to force the propaganda to such heights. Now, almost everyone is on the webz and can get info from everyone. That's a biiiig deal!