NY Times Article About My Election Anxiety!!

[Median Democrat]

Or, someone who is election obsessed like me. Glad to know I am not the only one.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/us/politics/01angst.html?hp

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“Look, I have this sense of impending doom; we’ve had a couple of elections stolen already,” Mr. Downs said. “The only thing worse than losing is to think that you’re going to win and then lose.”

He considers that prospect and mutters, almost involuntarily: “Oh, God.”

To talk with liberal Democrats in New Hope, San Francisco or Miami Beach, to drill deep into their id, is to stand at the intersection of Liberal and High Anxiety.

Right now, more than a few are having one of their these-polls-are-too-good-to-be-true, we-still-could-lose-this-election moments. They know the consuming and possibly over-caffeinated worry that their prayers and nightly phone calls to undecided voters in Toledo, Ohio, notwithstanding, Mr. Obama might fall short on Election Day.


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[LSparkle]

1. I haven't been sleeping past 4 a.m. Pacific time for a month ...

I get up, fire up the coffeemaker and log on to look
at the electoral maps, polls, etc. Not to mention
watching Washington Journal to gauge the mood of
the country, etc.

I NEED MY LIFE BACK! But I realize I'll only get
it back if we get President Obama ... Otherwise, it's
four more years of fighting to get my country back,
or planning to emigrate to another country where I
can have peace of mind and body.

[brazos121200]

2. I just wish the election would come already. The repubs are going down

and they know it, so they will be like wild animals the next four days. I would not put anything past them to try to win. I fully expect a last minute surprise of some kind, whether its a binladen tape, a surprise attack on Iran or elsewhere, or an announcement that they finally got binladen I don't know, but I expect something. The admin is launching numerous, almost daily attacks along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border trying to kill binladen, at the expense of hundreds of innocent people. The sooner these monsters are out of power the better.