How many think this will be a blow out for Obama and how many think it will be a tight win?

[graywarrior]

Poll question: How many think this will be a blow out for Obama and how many think it will be a tight win?

I keep hearing blow out from several talkking heads.

[obiden]

1. It will be like the 1960 elections...I think it will be a tight win

not a blowout...it will be like the 1960 elections.

[graywarrior]

2. Hey, welcome to DU!

[msallied]

3. You think it'll be THAT close? That was one of the closest elections in history...

I think it'll be like Clinton/Dole '96.

[abumbyanyothername]

5. Clinton Dole is a good paradigm

with a bit of Reagan Carter tossed in too (parties reversed, of course).

[obiden]

31. What I thnk will happen

it depends on how swiftly obama team is able to preempt the coming swiftboat attacks....if they can't do it hard enough...all the red states currently leaning obama will retract back towards mccain....then we're left with the john kerry-george bush election dynamic where bush had 286 to kerry's 252...and obama then needs either ohio or florida which are both tossups.... In the end i think florida will go to obama but it will be close.

[obiden]

33. Also the bradley effect

they say that itself is worth negating a 3-4 point lead.

[msallied]

40. Studies have shown that the Bradley Effect is non-existent.

[Shakespeare]

4. Honestly, I'm way too nervous to think about the chance of a blowout.

I hope we win big, but I'm going to be a nervous wreck until we win (big or small). We've been burned too badly the last two presidential elections--I trust nothing and no one.

[Radical Activist]

6. When was the last time a Democratic got over 51% of the vote? 1964.

It will be close.

[JimGinPA]

7. I Think At 8 PM On Election Day Some Pundits Are Going To Have Long Faces...

As they instantly call all those states for Obama. BLOWOUT!!!

[tpi10d]

Operation McDesperate started yesterday by McCain

If after a week of polling reflecting this tactic and the Tuesday debate, Obama is still ahead by 5-8 points nationally I'll predict a blowout.

McDesperate is his last tool in the toolbox.

[Motown_Johnny]

8. I am thinking blow out.. let's see how tuesday's debate goes

[NHDEMFORLIFE]

9. Electoral vote, pretty wide margin

Popular vote, not so much.
If O cracks 50 percent it will be an achievement, as noted above.

[iamahaingttta]

10. It's a Blowout that will be a Tight Win.

Seriously... it's clearly a blowout, but the repugs will steal just enough to make it a tight win.

[KathieG]

13. Exactly

[tomg]

39. You got it.

[Bullet1987]

11. If things continue as they have been going the last 2-3 weeks

and going into election day...Obama is at 50% and McCain is in the low 40s, then yes I think there will be a blowout.

[BlooInBloo]

12. More than nailbiter, less than landslide (= 375).

[graywarrior]

14. My nails are stubs already

My stomach can't take much more of this. I'm on the verge of tears and fighting with everyone I know.

[BlooInBloo]

17. hahah! Only 30 days left! You can do eeet!!!!

:rofl:

[graywarrior]

20. I don't think DU or my dem friends here can deal with me anymore

*snort*

[AlCzervik]

21. not alone there Gray. My neighbor Sharon and i are attempting to out sign

our 2 McCain supporting neighbors, right now i can't even look at either one of them because i know what i'd say and i still will have to live after this election. My annoyance level cannot be measured by any device that already exists.

[graywarrior]

24. I just got mad at a realtor friend of mine because she said Obama needs to convince her

I swear to god, I'm ready to drop several people as friends due to their unbelievable stupidity. How can I associate with morons?

[AlCzervik]

25. yup, my sil is the same way and on Friday i told her that was enough, and then

she told me she heard "Karl Rove" and i said "you know what Gin i just don't care to cater to your ignorance any longer, either educate yourself on the candidates or just stop talking about them, ok?" And she paused and stammered and said "Ok".

I'm just fucking done trying to convince people.

[graywarrior]

28. They're like drama queens looking for attention

Like I care if they're not convinced. You're a fucking idiot if you're not convinced at this point. I know what my friend's problem is....her republican boyfriend. I could strangle women for selling themselves over to the republican side because of their head-up-the-ass boyfriends.

[AlCzervik]

30. Mu sil called this morning, she can't even decide on which washing machine to buy

she can't even make that decision, how pathetic is that?

[graywarrior]

34. My friend's sister is a therapist and told me yesterday that several of

her women clients showed up for their sessions wearing Palin's hairstyle. She was quick to note that these are women who have no idea who they are or what they think. Those are whom the republicans are aiming their crap at.

[BlooInBloo]

26. Just show them the AFL/CIO dude's video, and let it go.

[graywarrior]

29. Good idea if she'd sit and watch it.

Obviously, she's a flake as I have just discovered.

[BlooInBloo]

32. Doh. Past the age of about 13, there's no cure for stupid. :(

[graywarrior]

35. No, there isn't and there seems to be more of them messing it up for the rest of us

[Fran Kubelik]

15. My chickens haven't hatched.

I ain't counting them yet.

[Quantess]

16. Too soon to tell.

[mtnsnake]

18. Huge blowout. I've thought it for quite a while

[Schulzz]

19. I think Obama will end up with something between 300 and 353 EV.

No 375+ landslide, McCain might able to close the gap by some point. But if McCain's campaign won't improve very fast, a real landslide is possible, too.

[silverweb]

22. Both.

I think it's going to be a blowout in real numbers.

However, the reTHUG "cheat factor" will make it appear to be a very close win -- only because they couldn't cheat enough to actually "win" this time.

[Azlady]

23. I tihink it will be tight

but Obama will FOR SURE win! YAHOOOOO

[Thegonagle]

27. I'm hoping for a blowout...

But I'm getting prepared for a nail biter.

You never know which of the shit they throw will stick to the wall, and they've already admitted that they'll be throwing a lot of it during this last month.

(Sorry, I had to vote for the close shave.)

[cloudythescribbler]

36. McCain still has a chance, but something in his favor has to come up

The justifying-of-the-lying MSM (all the moreso when the RW attacks them as too east-coast liberal blah blah blah) need to put the 'pedal to the metal' if they are to carry out their appointed job, which is always to make the elections go as far to the right as possible.

A capture of bin Laden, attributed to the McCain campaign? Well, anything is possible

[Sebastian Doyle]

37. If all voters could actually vote and all votes were legitimately counted

it might well be the biggest landslide in decades. The question all comes down to whether the turnout is big enough to overcome the fraud.

We NEED a landslide in this country, along with significant wins in both houses of Congress. We NEED numbers that the entire world can look at and say "Hey America isn't so hopeless after all. They finally rejected that neocon BULLSHIT agenda". And in this country, we need to be able to look at the Repukes and say, "Fuck you. We got the REAL mandate. Now get in the back seat and shut the fuck up!"

[Hippo_Tron]

38. My gut feeling is close, but it's too early to be certain

If McSame doesn't gain serious ground in either of the debates then I don't think his mad dash to fling shit in the last 3 weeks is going to save him.