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Actually,after watching Obama on TV last night,I am a LOT more relaxed about the election. However,from the looks of this forum today,not everyone is! Seems like the Anti-Obama fear-mongering & smears crap have really been amped up! I'm getting bored of the whole thing due all of that.
Hmm. I don't know...I might have to disagree. I'm not one of those who're getting carried away or anything, but I kind of get what the OP is saying. Here's why:
In 2000 when Gore lost, I was really disappointed, but I thought, "Oh well, it's just an election. It's just another President. Doesn't make that much of a difference who won...life goes on. If that many people voted for Bush, he must be entirely capable of running the country as well as anyone else."
Now, eight years later, look where our country is...
That's a great point.
Whenever I am out, I may ask someone if they are voting; not who for, just voting. You would not believe how many people are not voting, or think that their vote does not matter. Or, I hear a lot of; I am unsure of either, so I am just not going to vote. Or I have even heard, I don't know where either stand (this was tonight) so I don't think I am going to vote.
I think that when Bush and Gore ran against eachother, that people were asleep. We had some great times during the Clinton years, and I think people took for granted that life would always be that way. Now, if people are not awake, they simply never will be. I just don't think that people realize how much we have lost these past 8 years. I do not understand why a strong middle class scares so many. Or why taxing big corporations for giving jobs away does not sound like a good idea.
I think that the people who are pro McCain and Palin have the same mentality as a person who has been in an abusive relationship...they have legitimate complaints about what is not right, but then the minute you try to give them the solution, which is to leave, they stick up for them and try to protect them.
I've gotten over being nervous. Color me cynical but after voting for decades the one constant is that politicians are whores. They take millions from special interest groups (Democrats and Republicans) to get our votes so they can get in to office to push legislation to appease the people who gave them the money while throwing us a bone. Don't expect too much of anything to change no matter who gets in be it Obama or McCain. The special interest lobbying groups run the country; the rest of us are just so much flotsam.
I am so nervous for Nov 4th! This is the first year I am voting and the first time I am really into this and I am soooo nervous that if my choice doesn't win, I feel like the whole Country will go to mush Anyone else feeling this?? Lol..........
This is the first year I am voting as well, but I am not really nervous about it because as a couple of other people have already said, you get up on November 5th and go about your life. Yes, I want who I voted for to win, but if they don't well there is nothing else I can do at this point, and at least I can say that I voted.
I voted for Obama and the race has been long over.
It was over when Obama prevailed over Hillary and it has been common knowledge for quite some time that the Republican candidate was in trouble because of Bush-Cheney. Republicans just flat out stink and have done so now for 8 long, agonizing years.
The media though would like the race to appear close to maximize interest and they have succeeded in doing this. If people didn't realize that the race was over after Obama beat Hillary, they must've gotten a clue after McCain picked Palin. Dead giveaway there that Republicans had dropped their pants. If you didn't get it then, then maybe you realized after Obama annihilated McCain in 3 debates, and Biden annihilated Palin in the VP debate. If you didn't realize it then, then maybe you got a clue due to Powell's endorsement, other endless endorsements for Obama, polls showing increasing Obama leads, crowds upwards of 100000 at his speeches, while McCain had to bus kids in to give his speeches a manufactured feel of interest in his dying candidacy. It has been ugly, incredibly embarrassing for McCain. He looks outclassed and beaten. He looks old and pale. He looks desperate. McCain looks like a man who came to the fight holding a stick but realized too late that his opponent came with a gun. He's a loser and so is his party. His place is back in the Senate, following from the front. A maverick he is not, but he makes a good follower. He couldn't run a winning campaign and you can bet that he can't run this country either.
No anxiety whatsoever. Barack Obama...he's our next President.
I fear for this nation's national security if the polls are correct.
I fear that the goverment will take over my 401k.
I fear that this country will be on a slippery slope towards socialism between Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid, etc.
I could go on.
I want the government to stay out of my way, not hinder it. I believe in small government. Big government scares me.
So, yes, I am anxious.
Too late it tanked under Bush and Mccain agrees with it and him.
Anything that will happen to your 401k wont be Obama's fault
if they do anything it will be to help your 401k... which if you
had not noticed is almost gone because of the Republicans.
Im sorry you are scared but this is all the same things people were
scared about over Clinton, they cried socialism back when he was winning as well. ....and he brought us out of recession that
Reagan and Bush sr had put us in. We had the biggest economic
boom under Clinton. it' ll be alright... even better than things are now and for the past 8 years.
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Anyone else feeling this?? Lol..........
Absolutely not.
