What's your level of confidence?

[Onlooker]

Poll question: What's your level of confidence?

[DarthDem]

1. Near-Total.

I am also fully confident that I will receive lectures on the dangers of complacency, the possibilities of election-stealing, and the need for all Joe the Plumber threads to be concentrated in one centralized location.

[Faygo Kid]

2. I voted optimistic.

Skeptically optimistic, I might add.

[azmouse]

3. I've never doubted an Obama victory.

[TragedyandHope]

4. I was convinced by March

[book_worm]

5. Overall optimistic but not complacent. Why I think Obama will win:

1) Voter registration through-out the year in state after state has been strongly democratic. People are going to turn out in record numbers and those numbers look good for the democrats.
2) Early voting statistics, even in states like Georgia and North Carolina have been strong and some polls (like SUSA) indicate that Obama has been doing well.
3) The economy is on everybody's mind and in three weeks it will not suddenly recover.
4) We have the financial means to really contest in a number of states while McCain is limited.
5) Our electoral field is much wider. We have chances in MO, WVA, NC, IN, ND, and other states that have not gone democratic in quite some time. They are playing in an increasingly defensive field.
6) Our candidate is cool, calm and collected and won't (unlike DU) panic about any poll that shows an upswing towards McCain.
7) Our ground game/gotv is superb.
8) this is truly a change election and McCain no matter what doesn't represent change.

[stillcool]

6. I think the Republican Party is going to make..

it very hard for people to vote,.

[stuntcat]

7. Over these long years I've learned to have ZERO faith in my fellow voters

:hi: I'll believe in them when they prove their sorry asses.

(Also I think I'll jinx it by assuming it's already won.)

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Inauguration. That's when I might actually let out the breath I have been holding

[Geek_Girl]

9. I'm concerned about voters getting to vote

and their votes being purged or altered. Other than the GOP cheating/disenfranchising ect.. Obama has won this one. If they manage to steal the election this time I think there are going to be some angry voters.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. I'm hopeful.

[Shine]

11. I've been vibin' landslide for a loooooong time now. Totally confident.

:toast:

[cliffordu]

12. "All concern all the time, that is who I am...."

[ShadowLiberal]

13. I worry about jinxing myself by making an optimistic prediction

For me it almost never fails that my optimistic predictions get proven wrong, so I'm very wary of saying I'm optimistic about our chances.

I will say however it makes me a little bit nervous about Obama's slightly narrowing lead nationally, but what matters is what the daily tracking polls show the next 3 days when we get the reaction to the debate.

Oh and I tend to be a very pessimistic person usually, especially when it comes to presidential elections, so I usually assume the worst, but I will admit things look better for us right now then they have at previous times in this election.

[4_Legs_Good]

14. For the first time I feel stupidly overconfident

I feel that this is in the bag, but I also feel that I'm stupid for feeling that way, and that I'm doomed to be insanely disappointed.

So I'm still in the "worried until election day", camp, and mostly because I think that Obama is such a freaking good candidate that I almost can't imagine how bad it would be if we lost this one; if we lost this opportunity - America, I mean, not just us, the Democrats.

Anyway, I'm more nervous and confident than ever.

David