Do you feel a landslide coming? If so, when did you feel that?

[sniffa]

I know there's been some tight moments (especially during the RNC) but I never felt Obama was going to lose. In fact, I always felt this was going to be a landslide close to the margin of Reagan circa 1980, starting in about February of this year. I felt his organization and heavy investment in the ground game was going to lock up too many states to overcome. Now the economic crisis is just nailing it shut and adding more states.

I remember having conversations back then that I thought he would not only win huge, but have incredibly long coat tails. Again, this crisis seems to make them even longer.

It helps even more that his opponent is so inept.

[DontTreadOnMe]

1. McCain refusing to go on Letterman

The Letterman episode was the tipping point.

[Shakespeare]

2. Right now I feel like I did watching the RedSox in 2004 ALCS, game 4, 9th inning.

And I'm just praying the election is more like the 4-game sweep in the series. x(

I want it BAD--but I've had the hope ALMOST beaten out of me by the last two general elections.

Almost, I said.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. When Bear-Stearns went down.

As for an Obama/Biden win, it was when that nitwit from Alaska started to open her stupid yap.

[Irishman26]

4. Nah, I don't see a landslide...

I see a reasonably tight win. Not 2000 tight. But more like 2004 except in our favor this time. I've lost a lot of faith in americans over the last so many years. To me, there's still way too many stupid people out there to have a landslide. But here's to hoping you're right!

[spotbird]

9. Me too

This will not be a slam dunk.

[sniffa]

10. I don't think so

I think it's going to be a disaster for McCain.

Obviously since I started this thread.

[terrya]

5. After the first debate with McCain.

After that outstanding performance by Obama, I then had an inkling that Obama will win big.

[sniffa]

11. The 2nd debate should have reinforced it then

:D

:hi:

[terrya]

20. Of course.

:-)

:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I want to but it seems like there is too much time left before the election

They can still pull some shit. :grr:

But if there is a tipping point to identify, I am going to say when he picked Caribou Barbie for his VP.

[gravity]

7. Tonight

I felt like we had 90% chance, but after seeing McCain call Obama a "descent person" I am 100% sure it will be a landslide.

[quaker bill]

8. When Obama announced he was running n/t

[progressive_realist]

12. Super Tuesday

Besting Clinton was the serious challenge of this campaign. McCain is a lightweight compared to her.

[sniffa]

17. That's about when I started to feel it

The rest of the month is when I realized that this is the best candidate we may have ever run in my lifetime.

[Willo]

13. I always thought it should be

but I felt it would happen starting the first week of the economic crisis.

Almost every day it seems McCain's bus is falling apart, leaving pieces on the road.

Meanwhile, Obama reamins steady and sure. The contrast has been undeniable.

[TheBigotBasher]

14. Complacency is the enemy of victory

If Democratic supporters assume a landslide, it could be, but for these two.

[Orsino]

15. We'll never know.

I sense a win coming, but no matter what the results, we will never know the truth about our 2008 votes. Congress and state legislatures have given over our ballots to machines, machines owned by our worst enemies.

We will never know what the real results were.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

16. Electoral college blowout

and at least a 6-8% margin in the popular vote that could easily grow depending on the tone of the last three weeks. This is 1980 in reverse - the death of Reaganism.

[MountainMamma]

19. When McCain announced that the economy was basically sound a few weeks ago!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

24. Bingo

That showed how completely out of touch with reality he is and was. But then when you have seven homes, thirteen cars and an heiress wife, that's sort of a given.

Talked to a longtime friend of mine last night who relocated to Miami. All the buzz he hears is that O could very well take Florida. Happy day!

[DainBramaged]

18. A few minutes ago, I had an Epiphany, Obama WILL be our President, and McSame slips into history

a defeated assclown

[Motown_Johnny]

21. when he had to pull out of Michigan, if he can't even compete here he is fucked

[THUNDER HANDS]

22. Iowa

[anigbrowl]

26. x 2.

[goodgd_yall]

23. I felt it a few days ago.

Looking at the state polls and just having this feeling we've reached the point of no return. It's all onward and upward for Obama. I see the McCain campaign using desperate tactics. That's a sure sign they know things are going downhill.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

25. Grampy is in free fall

When you drop the way he has in the last week even after reaching down to the bottom of the barrel to smear your opponent, you're in deep trouble. The Obama campaign will now approach the close/leaner states with advertising the way Zhukov let loose when he reached the outskirts of Berlin.

[Cronus Protagonist]

27. I've been feeling that for about a week now

The trends are like the tides... you don't want to peak too early, and the feeling I'm getting is that of a high tide swelling, foretelling of the huge wave that's about to crash on the shores of American politics... the USA's very first mixed race president is about to be elected with the kind of groundswell that's only been seen a couple of times in the history of this country.

I sense more and more people wanting it, feeling it, wanting to be part of it. Come November 4, every non-racist non-bigot person in this country is going to want to be able to say, "I voted in the 2008 election for Obama!"

[Beregond2]

28. I've thought all along Obama would win in a landslide.

[sniffa]

29. And he will

That's no reason to get complacent thought - we're going to make it so.

:woohoo: