The last time I was this nervous in this fashion, I was awaiting my blind-date for the Junior Prom..

[PCIntern]

Yes... my date for the prom contracted mono...not from me I might add...and was incapacitated about a week before the "Big Event". My Mom's boss, an interesting lady, told her that I should call this girl who lived about 2 hours away. I called her and she was amenable and we decided to give it a shot. I will never forget getting dressed in a tuxedo for the first time ever, by myself, because my mother worked Saturday nights and no one else was around, and awaiting her arrival...

I actually thought even at the age of 17 that I was going to have a stroke any minute. My heart was pounding out of my chest and I couldn't breathe. I was scared to death about just about everything as you can imagine: What did she look like? How will she act? What if she finds me repulsive? What will I talk to her about? I had never been on a blind date, I probably had only been on a handful of 'dates' if you wanted to call them that in the Sixties. No support from anyone at all whatsoever in my family for a variety of weird reasons...

And so I sat waiting and asking myself all these questions and more and dreaming up scenarios which were simply awful.

And so I sit today, asking myself what's going to happen tonight...after all, it's only the fate of the Western World, right?

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Oh...you probably are curious after reading all that how it turned out...

She was the most beautiful girl I had ever laid eyes on to that point in my entire life...she was friendly and a bit quiet...I don't blame here for that....but some of the hotshots came up to me during the dance and shook my hand without saying a word. Yay! for me...for once...

It was a long time until I felt that good again....

[BlueStreak]

1. Relax. Get out the popcorn. I'm pretty sure Romney didn't get a heart transplant this week

People are going with Obama because they trust him. They appreciate the crap he has put up with. And they are sick of leaders with nothing but bluster. They are ready for an adult.

Basically they have made their judgment that he has done a good job these 3-1/2 years and that is not a judgment anybody changes because of a market-tested zinger delivered by a robot.

Obama has lived this job for 3-1/2 years. He knows what he is doing and he is one of the most thoughtful people on the political stage in generations. Obama will not try to throw any knockout punches. He will build on being the adult in the room -- and this will mesh well with Jim Lehrer.

Romney is the odd man out here. He is losing and everybody knows it. He needs a knockout punch, but he really doesn't understand the issues in any depth. He skill is not public policy. His skill is making profitable financial transactions behind closed doors and then going into public and lying his way out of it. That makes him ill-equipped to attack with anything more than empty slogans, and Obama will easily turn that around with "That slogan may be well and good, but the real world is a lot more complicated than that. Here is the choice that is in front of us ..."

So chill. Have a cold one and enjoy the show. Watch the master do his thing.

[PCIntern]

2. I hope you're right, pal...

but watching the MSM do a job on Elizabeth Warren last night and today for no real reason gave me the creeps...

time to pound some Genesee Cream ale....

[BlueStreak]

3. This whole campaign has refused to follow the MSM narrative

They will try to make it appear like a horse race. Most of them just don't understand what is at the core of emotions this year. It is the same thing that was at the heart of Occupy last year. We absorbed a huge shock -- a heist -- organized crime of unprecedented proportions in 2008. It takes awhile for people to internalize that. But it is happening. And the MSM has no clue about it -- because they are in the 1%.

So Obama just does his business tonight, and we keep doing our business registering people and converting people one lost soul at a time.

Ignore the MSM. They are increasingly irrelevant.

[PCIntern]

5. you must mean 2000 or 2010, right? nt

[BlueStreak]

6. No. I mean 2008.

That is when 28 years of Reaganomics -- the house of cards called supply-side economics, deregulation, and free trade -- came tumbling down.

The public didn't immediately understand that, and still doesn't understand the entire scope of the criminality that went into it. But they are, at an instinctive level, starting to get it.

After all, practically 100% of the pundits -- even the ones we love here -- said that this whole campaign would be about the economy, and that it would be very difficult for Obama to win with unemployment persistently above 8%.

But they were all wrong. They misread this as just another economic cycle. it isn't. It is the result of a century-long effort to restore the plutocracy to their "rightful position" -- with almost all of the nation's wealth.

They were almost right. It is sort-of about the economy. It is about the future of the middle class. Obama gets that. Much of the public is getting that. Republicans do not get that, nor does the MSM by and large.

Romney wanted a referendum on the last 4 years. Obama turned it into a referendum on the destruction of the middle class. If he can maintain that focus, he cannot lose. And I think he can maintain that focus because the Romney campaign has no clue. They still don't understand why every American isn't thanking Mitt for offering to be our President.

[PCIntern]

11. Gotcha...sorry.

I thought you meant the election...

[BlueStreak]

12. No problem at all.

[nolabear]

4. I hope tonight goes every bit as well.

Sweet story.

[flamingdem]

7. I'm jittery too, wtf? It's just a debate

we know who is going to emerge victorious

[JVS]

8. Did you score?

[PCIntern]

9. Bwahahaha....DUzy! nt

[DavidL]

10. Cool it, you don't even have to dance tonight or look good either!

Just have a beer, relax, eat a healthy dinner, another beer or whatever, popcorn, sleep well by 10:45

No one voting for Obama now is going to change their vote based upon tonight.

So Romney has the challenge, and only independents to convert, which means we might as well vote tomorrow.

Remember:

Romney has been running for 7 years, almost as long as Obama has been going to Washington for his day job.