How quickly things change. Just this Monday I was speaking with a fellow and ardent Obama supporter. Normally my role is to calm him down and assure him that all is OK, but on this day I needed as much consoling as he did. It really appeared that the election was getting away from him/us. He and his partner were already seriously talking about moving to another country should McCain win. Great... so in addition to country going down the tubes I'll lose a friend at the same time.So what the hell happened. In the course of just 3 days everything changed. Obama's back on top and the momentum is clearly in his favor. McCain, in contrast, seems completely out of sorts. It was pretty depressing to see continue McCain surge in the face of the lies, mis-representations, issue waffling and Rove-ian politics. Now, in retrospect, perhaps I didn't give the American people enough credit.
Added 9/20 at 5:58pm...
I just found this on the Internet that shows how quickly and far Palin's favorable/unfavorable ratings have fallen. It's interesting to generally look at Obama's and Biden's numbers as compared with McCain's and Palin's. Very interesting, if something does change, they're toast. Unfortunately in politics, something always changes.
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I hear what you're sayin' on this. I, too, have debated about moving to Canada if Obama loses. Something about this year's election is nerve-wracking. The debates start this week so we'll either have a firm ground to stand on or lose more momentum.
One consolation is Palin seems to have so many skeletons in her closet they're uncovering, it might yet work for us. She has a religious controversy with her own pastor, who chased out "witches" and the whole pray the gay away thing... plus I've been keeping an eye on her husband's involvement with the movement for Alaska to succeed from the Union. Hmmm. Fox News seems to be downplaying these items. Thank God for MSNBC and CNN!
At this point, we need to leave it in the good Lord's hands. If we worry too much, it'll drive us stir-crazy.
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