****BREAKING**** Fairleigh Dickinson National Poll Harris 50% TFG 43%

[ShazzieB]

32. I have an alternate suggestion.

If you're not interested in posts about polls, national or otherwise, don't read them. Ignore them, skip right over them. If they really bug you, trash those posts so you don't have to see them on your screen again. Easy peasy.

Some of us here are interested in these polls. (If you need evidence, this one has 133 recs at the moment - probably more by the time I post this.) I think most of us know better than to take polls as absolute gospel truth, but they are still relevant and interesting, as an indication of general trends.

If you're concerned that positive polls might make us overconfident, I really don't think that's going to happen. We all lived through the 2016 election, and we all know what happened then. I would bet anything that nobody here at DU is going to cut back on donations or working to GOTV, much less (dog forbid) not bother to vote, just because the polls are positive.

most of us can't freaking WAIT to vote! If positive polls lift our spirits and put a little extra spring in our step, we'll probably do a better job, if anything. Especially not the latter, because most of us can't freaking WAIT to vote!

So please, let the rest of us enjoy this news. I think we're entitled to it, after all the misery we've been through since the Orange Hellbeast came riding down that escalator. After the DNC convention, I feel better about the direction things are going in than I have in years. I feel optimistic, I felt energized, I feel joyful. I know I'm not the only one, so please, don't rain 🌧 on our parade!