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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 09:22 PM
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I see the circular firing squad has already started taking aim.
Significant wailing and gnashing of teeth about how some polls have shown the GOP to be making some last minute gains. Lots of prophets of gloom and doom on this board.

Are we made of such flimsy tissue paper as all this? Are we really such hothouse flowers?

C'mon, we knew this is going to be close. We have to act as if we're behind.

I know Dems have gotten used to being losers. I'd hate to believe we can't handle being victors instead.

We just have to knock off the defeatist bullshit. Otherwise we don't need the RW to attack us, because we're doing it to ourselves instead.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 09:24 PM
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1. One more day !!!! LETS TAKE IT BACK !!!
woooooohooooooooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!!!!

Overwhelm the GOP !!
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 09:25 PM
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2. Well, all I can say it,
they're late. :evilgrin:
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still_one Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 09:26 PM
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3. what do you expect, it is like the battered wife syndrome
They know they are being abused, but feel helpless

To put things in perspective WE WILL WIN THE HOUSE

http://www.pollster.com/house.php

unless they blatantly rig the elections, there is no way we will lose the house

The Senate can go either way

The only justification for the defeatist bullshit is because people do NOT feel empowered

That will change on Tuesday, trust me

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Wilms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 09:35 PM
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4. Nice psychoanalysis. Thanks.
Here I thought they were just plain freaking out. :D

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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 09:50 PM
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5. Shout it out now: EEEEYYYYAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH

WE WILL WIN ON TUESDAY !!!

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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 10:03 PM
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6. I didn't think it would be close
it shouldn't be close. This congress and Wh has been more disastrous to this country than the iceberg was to the Titanic. We should be looking at 50 seat pickup. And we still don't know what we're going to do about OH, where Dem precincts will be woefully undersupplied with voting machines and overstocked with "challengers". I'm not attacking anyone here, just the media, the Limbeciles, and the criminals who populate the GOP.
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LaCrosseDem Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 10:40 PM
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7. You know what? I don't consider myself "weak."
I have worked my ass off. Again. I'm just emotionally spent. In Wisconsin we have an anti-gay marriage ban on the ballot. With a toddler and a newborn, my wife and I have put in probably 20 nights combined on this election cycle. And now this. I am exhausted and becoming depressed. I could have spent those nights with my children and gotten this same result.
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 10:46 PM
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8. Yeah, I'm sorry to hear it.
I read your similar post on another thread.

I know you're feeling discouraged. Lots of us have been there, but not many with as much else going on as you and your wife have (a toddler and a newborn).

You're not weak at all, you're actually heroic. Your efforts are worthwhile even if the desired outcome doesn't happen. Hard to believe that, I'm sure, but true.

I don't have any easy answers for you. Do what you can to take a break.
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-05-06 11:57 PM
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9. You posted the exact same thing on another thread
Like, cut-and-paste.
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LaCrosseDem Donating Member (120 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-06-06 12:13 AM
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10. Yes I did. Same topic. So shoot me.
Or maybe I will shoot me.
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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-06-06 05:28 AM
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11. Thank you for your efforts.
Please don't feel depressed. First of all most polls of individual House races are very encouraging, and generic national polls don't mean much. We will take back the House, even if we don't get the Senate- and that's always been a long shot. I'm sure your efforts have helped.
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FernBell Donating Member (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-06-06 06:21 AM
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12. good post
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Eurobabe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-06-06 07:46 AM
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13. I agree. STOP IT PEEPUHL!!! WHINERS!!! DOOMSDAYERS!!
Jaybus, I think people made up their minds a long time ago on this one. And we will purr-servere....

All of Europe is watching you tomorrow, hoping we throw the CONS out of power.
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