Losing the dividing line

[Frumious B]

I'm in this place where I'm having a hard time differentiating between optimism rooted in fact and pure wishful thinking. It is demoralizing and confusing. Every day it seems like we take another hit in this Presidential race and prospects get dimmer. Joe Biden was great last night. The VP debate was so cathartic, but I hope that isn't all it was. Catharsis is a sorry substitute for winning when so much on the line: an undoing of the last four years of progress and a return to the "looking glass" world of Bush/Cheney. This is what we could be facing. I've contributed what I can financially to President Obama's campaign, but I'm not especially equipped for things like making phone calls and knocking on doors.

I want to believe and I want to have hope, but not simply for the sake of believing and hoping. It must be rooted in reality. Anybody got some reality for me? The good kind? I could sure use it.

[courseofhistory]

1. All we can do is

vote, encourage others to vote, try to convince people to change their vote if they are sort of on the fence about Romney and just keep plugging away. I firmly believe in the end Obama will prevail in the important battleground states and we have early voting on our side too at least up until the last few days.