I'm going to be in shock one of the days in the near future

[cali]

To me, it seems like the primary season has been going on for eons. Particularly the Hillary and Obama show. Now it's the last moments of the last act. Hard to believe it's almost over. But it is. Consider the following:

Obama is now only 115 delegates from 2025. By Wednesday, he'll be no more than 65 delegates away from that number.

The RBC meeting to settle (finally) MI and FL is less than two weeks away.

PR is less than two weeks away.

MT and SD are two weeks away.

All the voting will be over in two weeks.

We'll have our presumptive nominee within 3 weeks at the latest.

His name is Barack Obama.

Phew.

[tekisui]

1. I am very much looking foward to that.

And, small typo, it's MT, not MN.

[cali]

2. Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out!

It's going to feel great but strange to me. I'm so used to the primary. Seems like a permanent state of affairs.

[Marrah_G]

3. You are probably right

And then begins the tough race to the white house. This has been easy in comparison to what the Rovian machine is going to throw at us. Hopefully the general population won't fall for it this time.

[cali]

5. Marrah, the wheels are coming off the republican machine

Rove has been an unmitigated disaster for the republicans. His permanent majority is in pieces. He's an MSM hack. The repukes just lost three Congressional special elections in heavily republican districts where they attempted to do in the dem candidates by linking them to Obama. There are millions more dems than there were four years ago. The economy is in shambles and the electorate trusts dems on that issue by a large margin.

I'm not saying it won't be a tough fight, but odds are heavily against the republicans. And John McCain is a weak candidate who we haven't really begun to attack.

For the first time since 1996, I'm fairly confident that not only will dems win the White House, but we'll pick up 6+ seats in the Senate and 20 in the House.

[Marrah_G]

6. I hope you're right, I just can't allow myself to bring down my guard

I was so sure that Kerry would win. In my mind there was no WAY people would vote for that moron W again, not against such a wise and intelligent candidate. But again, through lies, smear, trickery and theft he stayed in the WH (And I went on a three day drunken crying fit).

I cannot help but think we are being played yet again.

But I hope you are right.

I really, really hope you are right.

[ellisonz]

4. Thank God.