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LonePirate

(13,999 posts)
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 04:39 PM Oct 2024

Gut Check - How confident are you about our chances in November?

Twenty days ago, I posted a Gut Check thread asking for everyone's opinion on how they feel about our chances in November. Then ten days ago, I posted a second Gut Check thread to see if opinions had changed. With less than a week to go, how do you feel about things now?


113 votes, 3 passes | Time left: Unlimited
Very confident we will win
53 (47%)
Somewhat confident we will win
37 (33%)
Not sure what to think
17 (15%)
Not very confident as things seem bad
4 (4%)
No confidence whatsoever as things look bleak
2 (2%)
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Gut Check - How confident are you about our chances in November? (Original Post) LonePirate Oct 2024 OP
How we feel will have no effect. MineralMan Oct 2024 #1
Yup Polybius Oct 2024 #6
I am 100% positive we will win, and bigly. Bigger than bigly. mucholderthandirt Oct 2024 #2
Somewhat confident again Polybius Oct 2024 #3
I'm hopeful iemanja Oct 2024 #4
"Somewhat confident", speaking conservatively--- but when I look at early voting, Jack Valentino Oct 2024 #5
The last few days of data have given me a lot more confidence Johnny2X2X Oct 2024 #7
No clue Mz Pip Oct 2024 #8
Yeah it's so close in the battlegrounds dwayneb Oct 2024 #9
Possible to be very confident and scared? mvd Oct 2024 #10
I think that should be a bigger concern at this point. lees1975 Oct 2024 #11
Agree completely mvd Oct 2024 #12
Politics is tough Baggies Oct 2024 #13
Nauseously Optimistic tinrobot Oct 2024 #14

mucholderthandirt

(1,281 posts)
2. I am 100% positive we will win, and bigly. Bigger than bigly.
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 06:56 PM
Oct 2024

It's going to make the best Dem win ever look like that team was standing still. I mean, seriously. If we get the vote out, we got this. HUGE. Yoooogh.

Jack Valentino

(1,629 posts)
5. "Somewhat confident", speaking conservatively--- but when I look at early voting,
Wed Oct 30, 2024, 10:24 PM
Oct 2024

the continuous endorsements of our candidates by prominent members of the Republican party,
and all of the other election metrics which weigh in OUR favor and not theirs,
and the "garbage man in his garbage suit", for the love of God,

I don't see how we can possibly lose.


Johnny2X2X

(22,219 posts)
7. The last few days of data have given me a lot more confidence
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 10:21 AM
Oct 2024

Early voting numbers are great for us. Polls of those who have voted are amazing for Harris and well beyond what we thought was possible. And I think abortion ballot initiatives will be a significant boost to beating the polls for Harris in NV, AZ, FL, and NE.

mvd

(65,570 posts)
10. Possible to be very confident and scared?
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 11:22 AM
Oct 2024

Because I’m 90% confident, but any chance of that creature winning makes my anxiety sky high. Plus not looking forward to Dump’s many court challenges and shenanigans. Harris could win 450 electoral votes and he’d still try something.

lees1975

(6,234 posts)
11. I think that should be a bigger concern at this point.
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 11:32 AM
Oct 2024

It won't just be court challenges, there will be violence if she wins, lots of it, around state capitols where the real power exists when electoral ballots are cast and certified. That's where they are made legitimate, not in the ceremony in Congress, and that's where some real damage can be inflicted.

I've been saying since 2016, Congress must do something to make all election rules in all states standard, and make it impossible to overturn the will of the people by shenanigans. So far, the system has held, and maybe it will continue to do so, since evidence must be presented with charges of election fraud or attorneys get "Giulianied" and "Powelled".

Baggies

(666 posts)
13. Politics is tough
Thu Oct 31, 2024, 12:02 PM
Oct 2024

A candidate has to keep one foot on the gas while keeping the other foot on their opponents throat. I said I’m not sure, and I’m truly not, but the low gas light is on which worries me.

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