How do you feel when you pull for your favorite team and they lose in an upset?

[kentuck]

You were very confident that they would have no problem with their opponent. You just felt good about it.

But then, when the game ended, your team lost.

Do you make excuses? If they had done this or if they had done that, we would have won.

Do you feel the same way when your favorite candidate loses a political race? How could the voters choose the other candidate over yours?

Does it mean that you are out of step with what the majority of the country is thinking? Do you feel as if your entire political philosophy has been invalidated? The voters say that you are in the minority. You are not on the winning side. You are a loser.

Is this the way voters will feel after this election is over?

[frazzled]

3. I hope you're not talking about the Cubbies tonight.

[kentuck]

5. I'm pulling for the Cubbies!

If they can come back and win after being down 3-1, it will be even more historic!

[frazzled]

6. Great--but you know the one difference between sports and elections?

If the Cubs lose tonight I won't be that upset--both teams have been incredible, and losing to Cleveland by just one game won't be an embarrassment and won't have consequences.

On November 8, on the other hand, I will feel hysterically distraught--not just for myself but for the entire nation. And frightened for what that maniacal liar and no-nothing could do to our country and its people, especially the most disadvantaged.

Sports is a fun pastime; politics is deadly serious.

[kentuck]

13. Well said!

Unfortunately, some folks look at political Parties the way they look at their favorite sports teams.

[Iggo]

4. I feel that no matter how loud I cheered, the team would have lost anyway.

I also feel that turning politics into team sports is killing this nation.

[charlyvi]

7. Hey, I'm a 65 yr old lifelong Cubs fan.

Disappointment and despair are my intimate buddies.

[trof]

8. I feel sad for a day or so.

If dumbfuck should somehow pull it off I'd go into deep depression and extreme disillusionment about my fellow citizens.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. It sucks, but in the end you realize it's just sports.

I'm a Baltimore Ravens fan and losing in the 2011-12 AFC Championship game to the Patriots after the kicker missed a field goal to tie it sucked royally. But the next year they came back and won the Super Bowl. You live to play another year.

Now, ordinarily in politics and presidential elections, you figure you can wait out another 4 years and give it another shot. Had Obama lost to either McCain or Romney, that's how I would have felt.

But this is different. Our opponent is a literal madman who could do extremely severe damage to the country if ever elected president.

It's not a game.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Sports? I'm disappointed and move on.

When Ohio State lost to Penn State a couple games ago, I cussed a little and then said, "At least many Americans are happy about it." (They supposedly have both the most fans and the most "haters" across the country.)

I was much more disappointed when Dumbya won in 2000 and 2004, especially the way it happened.

If Trump somehow wins? I might need to get some anti-depressants from a doctor. Then after my drug induced relaxation, I might say something like, "Well, humanity had a good run."

[gort]

14. This scene usually sums it up for me.

[hfojvt]

15. it depends on the game

I still think the Seahawks could have won that playoff game (in 2007 against the Bears) if the quarterback had just scrambled ahead for 5 yards instead of taking the sack that put them out of field goal range and then had them losing in overtime. Of course, they were not favored in that game, The Bears were 13-3 that year and Seattle a lowly wildcard.

Packers would have beaten the Niners too (in 1999) if the officials had made the right call on the San Francisco fumble with thirty seconds left in the game. They were not favored then either with the Niners being 13-4 and the Packers 11-6.

As for being out of step with the majority. Well, I hardly feel that my political philosophy is subject to a popular vote. Just because, for example, a majority of Kansas voters vote for a piece of crap Governor and worthless legislators who increase taxes on the poor and cut taxes for the rich, does not suddenly make that kind of policy either factually or morally right.

Plus, I am still a loser even if my candidates happen to win. They could sweep and I would still be (in my eyes) an unmarried childless loser who has two university degrees and works as a janitor.

So it goes.

[ileus]

16. I feel like a Redskins fan...