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Zalatix

(8,994 posts) Tue Oct 9, 2012, 03:30 PM Oct 2012

There's no need to be stressed about how the election is going, except for one area.

I wasn't stressed about the debate. I knew there was no way Obama could have been CREDIBLY said to lose that. Then the Big Bird comment I knew would sink Romney, started coming back to bite him in the ass. Then there is cheatgate. Then Gish Gallop started getting around. I wasn't worried about the polls. Lo and behold it came down that Pew's polling tactics were extremely biased toward old white men of the South.

None of that shit is worth freaking out over, except for one thing: voter suppression, voter misdirection, and vote miscounting.

Got scared? Then spend an extra day to GOTV for the President or Democratic candidates down-ticket. When people panicked in 2008 over the rise of Palin, donations skyrocketed. Anyone who's panicked should take a lesson from that. Anyone who's not, should step it up just in case.

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