Some folks think this election is exciting! To me it is about as

[Hardrada]

much fun as the Cuban Missile Crisis (which I remember very well since I was a college freshman at the time).

[leftofcool]

1. Personally, I find it boring

[Bicoastal]

2. ? Explain yourself.

[Stellabella]

3. I think the poster means there's so much at stake.

And depending on the way the election goes, it will be hope for the future or the end of America.

[Bicoastal]

4. Nah, the 2004 election was like the Cuban Missile Crisis.

This election reminds me more the American Revolution. :)

[Stellabella]

7. Heh. Yep, let's hope so.

[jimshoes]

8. To me, with all the divisiveness being cultivated by the right

this entire last 20 to 30 years, seems like what it must have been like in the years preceding the Civil War. Where families are split seemingly irreparably by political ideology. And perhaps most importantly no matter what one side says there is almost always an automatic negative response by the other side. There is no middle ground. Nothing to connect, even tenuously, one side to the other to even begin to work together.

[Stellabella]

13. Yes, that's scary.

Even with republicans being proved wrong from the last 30 years culminating in this financial disaster, so many, if not most, just won't admit they were wrong. And they are so VICIOUS about it, too - those on the right are just full of hate and venom.

[Hardrada]

12. That's what I mean. A lot at stake here.

[VP505]

5. This election would be more exciting if

their campaigning hadn't been going on for 2 years. I think everyone is getting a little tired of it.

[lostnfound]

6. Or Russian roulette. nt

[stillcool]

9. I know. I don't dare think past..

November 3.

[Poseidan]

10. to me

It's like watching the primary all over-again. Same tactics from the losing side and the same deterioration to racism and bullshit. Same occurrence of the losing side being left with only the dumbest white-trash idiots imaginable (and die-hard ideologues, who would vote for Hitler if he was a woman, or a Republican).

I feel like Karl Rove on an all-night Revenge of the Nerds session (except 1,000 times less enthused).

[blues90]

11. I can see the cuban missile crisis anology

except that the threat is within the US now. So I am waiting for things to explode sitting on the edge of un-certainty as it was during the cuban missile crisis which was quite a scary time for many.