It feels like a sea change to me, this election. What do you all think?

[LiberalLoner]

I know we need to GOTV and not be complacent at all. We need to fight hard, really for the rest of our lives. We can never grow complacent.

But I'm getting a sense of the country turning. The tide turning, and rather abruptly. A feeling of the fever having broken and the illness of right-wing hatred starting to recede.

I honestly think we will look back on this time as the election that was the turning point, the election that changed everything for the better and got us back on a good path.

[randome]

1. That became quite clear to me three or four months ago.

2012 is the end of the world, as the Mayans predicted -for the GOP. They will be second-fiddle for a long time after this.

[LiberalLoner]

2. Thank you for confirming that my intuition about this is correct! I am so glad and so relieved! We

must continue to fight for good but it feels like....we are going to survive as a nation, as a people, you know what I mean?

[randome]

3. The next big problem to tackle is Climate Change.

We can win the war but lose the planet.

[LiberalLoner]

6. True. That and adjusting to declining energy/food/water, scares me quite a bit.

[kestrel91316]

4. Yeah, I feel that the scales might FINALLY be falling from enough people's eyes that

we might see the pendulum truly go left.

[LiberalLoner]

8. I feel that's what I'm seeing, people waking up as if from a trance. Not ready to say they are D's

just yet but no longer being quiet as loud and strident in their support of R's either.

[Taverner]

5. Could be.,..

Although I see it as an attempt to avert a really dangerous sea change...

[LiberalLoner]

7. I heard that they kind of let us have SS and so forth because they were afraid of revolution - are

you saying that they will let us have a bit of movement to the left just to make sure we don't get the guillotines running? I could see that. Sometimes I almost think Romney is throwing the race on purpose, it's just hard to believe someone can really be that stupid and out of touch.

[Taverner]

11. No - I think if Rmoney wins, bedtime for democracy

[RepublicansRZombies]

18. It seems like Romney must be throwing it, how can anyone be THAT stupid,greedy,selfish and win

But I can't figure out why they would throw Paul Ryan into the mix.

He is their big intellectual leader! And then it turns out he is the world's biggest idiot, a compulsive liar and he hasn't even bothered to run the numbers on his amazing budget plans?

Why would they want to expose their whole charade?

And Romney, I understand throwing an election in the age old dog and pony show....but why would they put up the poster boy for everything that has gone wrong in the country.

Why would they put a candidate that exposes just how corrupt their policies have been, and proves that their need for greed and sense of entitlement has driven the country into the ground?

I use to think they were smart and this was some sort of plan. I certainly thought Karl Rove was smart but he hasn't been helping R/R...they have no real talking points or plan, just lies. ( Maybe Karl Rove is throwing them to the wolves?)

After this election season, I'm coming to the conclusion that they are just as stupid as they act. Or in other words, it isn't an act, they have just been using money and bullying tactics to get their way and avoid responsibility, and that just ain't going to work anymore.

And I DARE them to steal it again, that will be the straw that broke the camel's back because no one will believe that the nation voted for this entitled jackass, someone that makes Bush look intelligent and honorable (maybe that was what this is all about- preparing for Jeb?)

[hifiguy]

9. That the Repukes' little red choo-choo

has finally chugged around the last bend of insanity has been ever more evident in the last few months. If we Democrats can keep pounding home the message as well as our great speakers did last night, it just might happen.

[LiberalLoner]

10. Please make your post an OP!

That is the best post I've read in awhile!

[loli phabay]

15. lol good visual thomas the tanked engine.

[Odin2005]

17. You owe me a new keyboard!!!

"That the Repukes' little red choo-choo has finally chugged around the last bend of insanity"

[reformist2]

12. I agree - I won't be surprised to see significant movement in the polls in the next month.

The Dems have a clarity and a confidence that I've never seen in them before.

[Bandit]

13. That is what I thought about 2008

Democrats won Everything in a landslide and then somehow blew it.. Lost completely only two years later...I can only hope this time it sticks..

[loli phabay]

14. depends on who wins the white house and congress i suppose

[Graybeard]

16. It's Americans basic sense of fairness.

I believe the Rs overreached in a fatal way. It sounds corny but we always felt some respect for "the loyal opposition". But when Sen.McConnell just blatantly said he wanted Pres Obama to fail, and would do everything he could to assure that outcome, he crossed the line.

Opposition in the House to every single administration proposal further alienated Independents and many Rs as well. The approval rating for Congress being in the low teens can't all be Democrats voicing their disapproval.

[gkhouston]

20. +1. And the alienation isn't just because the Rs did this, but because they did this

at a time when the country was hurting. IMO, the general public has some tolerance for political games when things are running fairly smoothly, but when a crisis comes along, they expect politicians to step up and make politics a distant second to problem-solving. The Republicans have failed at that, spectacularly, and have made no secret of their priorities, either.

[Scuba]

19. I agree the People have moved forward, but the old powers still own the vote counting....

... we need to have a massive turnout and overcome their crimes.