Does anyone else suspect that the DNC has been a "game changer" for this election?

[CTyankee]

It just kinda hit me...I am doubting that we'll go back to the same campaign after this convention.

Or is the Romney campaign and the SuperPacs pulling ads out of toss up states just a feint, a move to distract us from another strategem they have up their sleeve?

I don't want to get too confident, but could it be that the republicans are slowly folding?

[tblue]

1. They will never fold

They're trying to rig the whole thing so it doesn't matter who the people want to vote for. I can't understand how anyone would vote for a Repub over the party we've been watching on TV this week. But some people are set in stone and get off on being fearful and stingy.

[snappyturtle]

2. I think the convention has had a huge impact on the election...YES! nt

[southernyankeebelle]

3. They are holding back. Remember what Romney did to in his own primary. They

are going to carpet bomb these states. I just hope all the people go out on the road and defend the president.

[CTyankee]

4. Well, I think I heard that Clinton is all in! Dawg is gonna leave a mark!

[southernyankeebelle]

6. They ALL need to be in. Dems don't have the money the repub pacs have.

[CTyankee]

8. I do appreciate that fact but if the Dems have planted the idea in the minds of the voters

that the repubs are lying (which is pretty evident) and that the Dems offer more hope and more clear direction forward (unlike the repubs who have NOT made their case to the American people), then the fix is in. People will look at the ads and see the lies and then wonder why the repubs need to lie to them. That would be powerful IMO...

[southernyankeebelle]

14. I just hope and pray this convention just spills over for the next couple of mouths.

[loyalsister]

5. I think it has been getting people more enthusiatic

That could change- improve the ground game.

[HopeHoops]

7. It might have pushed Obama's wagon a few feet further, but the rMoney horse is dead.

[deaniac21]

9. I just hope that the Big Dog

didn't overshadow the POTUS speech tonight.

[gkhouston]

10. Not likely, IMO, partly because the President won't be trying to compete with him.

More likely, he'll begin by acknowledging all the amazing speeches that have happened this week and cite them as an example of Democrats working together. We'll probably end up with half of DU saying they liked Clinton's speech better and half saying they liked Obama's better, and there's nothing wrong with that.

[jsmirman]

11. ONLY IF WE WORK FOR IT

We must take the momentum and run with it.

This is essential.

[CTyankee]

12. Yup. Good for us. We need to do that and we will...

[jsmirman]

13. I'm fully engaged at this point, for sure

[Honeycombe8]

15. Not sure. I'm part of the choir. Poll yesterday didn't show any increase for Obama. But it's early.

That would've been before last night, I think, so after only first night of DNC.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

16. Hey CTY,, check out the du fundraising post

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021285933

[Raine]

17. They won't fold, they still have a good chance of winning

it's going to be a tough fight and I would bet close in the end.

[justiceischeap]

18. Statistically, if we can GOTV, we will win

that's why the Repubs have been working on voter suppression, because they know they can't win if people just go and vote and those votes are actually counted.

We need to make sure this feeling is carried over to getting out the vote.

[GreenPartyVoter]

19. After 2004, I refuse to get too confident. I hope the convention fires up the base and

also the candidates, but as to what effect it is having on non-Dems I am not sure. How many are even watching, I wonder? (I do have my conservative hubby watching with me tonight, so that's one! Well, 2, really. LOL)

[karynnj]

20. I think what many of us didn't know was how mush a long shot 2004 really was

Beachmom posted this article that someone had posted on twitter shows that Kerry did outperform what models would have predicted. Bush's approval rating and the economy gave him a good chance of being re-elected.

That did not count:
- the fact that 911 bonded many people to Bush who had not been there before
- the fact that he and Cheney terrorized people with false alerts because it led people to rally
around Bush
- The Catholic church and corporations knew that the winner could nominate 2+ SCJ - including replacing at least one conservative who was dying. Kerry would never have picked anyone who would vote for Citizens United.
- The media covered his biography, which was - even for a Presidential nominee - extraordinary and limited his direct TV exposure to just the 3 hours of the convention and the debates.
- 23 states had homophobic resolutions on the ballot to get the RW evangelicals out.
- He bowed to the media, party and his advisers in picking John Edwards, who then refused to cooperate with the campaign.

In spite of all of that, had the Republican SoS in Ohio not suppressed the vote by putting fewer machines than were there for the primary, he would have pulled off what might have been the greatest upset in decades.