Motown_Johnny
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Sun Nov-02-08 03:58 PM
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What would the new threads here be like if the situation were reversed? |
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Edited on Sun Nov-02-08 03:59 PM by Motown_Johnny
Let's say, just for the sake of argument, that we were in the repugs shoes and they were in ours.
Behind in every reasonable EV projection
Behind in popular vote projection
VP candidate made a fool of by radio jocks in the last 72 hours of the campaign
Presidential candidate virtually conceding on SNL in the last 72 hours of the campaign
far better GOTV effort against us instead of for us
out of money
out of ideas
out of time
How would the new threads here go if that were our situation?
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Sun Nov-02-08 03:59 PM
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1. WE CAN STILL DO IT! I'M SO EXCITED! IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, MY PSYCHIC SAID SO!!!! |
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Sun Nov-02-08 03:59 PM
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2. They'd be the same pessimistic bullshit we're seeing now. |
Bicoastal
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:03 PM
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3. No, I'm pretty sure we'd be just as insanely optimistic as the Freepers... |
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...some of whom are certain they're on track for a landslide. It's just how it works.
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:17 PM
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4. Funny.... so the posters will be ass backward no matter what? Then I guess the pessimism is good |
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:19 PM
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5. I'm pretty sure we'd all be convinced we'd lose/have stolen |
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:19 PM
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6. Picking out obscure outlying polls to convince ourself we were going to win... |
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Coming up with insane theories about how all the polls are wrong. Talk up some hidden factor(s). Denial.
There would also be some doom and gloom, but a lot of denial.
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:20 PM
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7. We should work like we're 10 points down!!!!! |
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:20 PM
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8. Denial and defeatism. A lot of depression. |
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:26 PM
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10. More denial, I think--'cause it still lingers. |
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Some people still think Kerry was way ahead in the polls on Election day 2004. They couldn't be more wrong.
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:29 PM
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12. I wasn't a DU'er back then but I was certainly in denial too. |
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I didn't see how Kerry could possibly lose...
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:34 PM
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13. Neither did I! I cried for weeks after... like I was in mourning |
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Looking back, I was in mourning for my country because I knew what was going to happen after they stole it from Kerry, and it did!!! :cry: CR
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:25 PM
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9. People would talk about how defeat was inevitable and how democrats don't have their shit together |
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The republicans are sincerely shocked that they are going to lose. They are in denial.
If the shoe was on the other foot, we wouldn't be shocked, we'd be, "here we go again." People would go on about how democrats are so dsyfunctional that they couldn't even win the presidency in this environment. You'd have Obama supporters blaming Hillary Clinton and PUMAs, while HRC supporters would be talking about how they were right about Obama being un-electable, how he stole the election, about how Hillary will win 2012, etc.
Basically, you'd have the crap going on that went on during the primaries.
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:27 PM
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11. Like losing campaigns in the primaries |
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Denial, a lot of finger-pointing, infighting etc.
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:52 PM
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14. Ummm, see 2004. See 2000. Archives. Do they go back that far? |
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I hope not. I don't EVER want to feel that way again.
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Sun Nov-02-08 04:53 PM
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15. take a look at the threads... |
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in 2004....that's your answer!
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