Can anyone estimate how they will feel if their candidate loses in November?

Can anyone estimate how they will feel if their candidate loses in November?

on about nine different levels and in about ten different directions.

on about nine different levels and in about ten different directions.
hey, wait for the poll! you're fast

It depends whether or not the Dems can take back one or both of the chambers of Congress. I would prefer a Kerry victory, I will settle for a majority in congress.

Can anyone estimate how they will feel if their candidate loses in November?
I will be sad that there are enough people in this country that are influenced more by soundbyte politics and disinformation than by GWB's actual performance record and his potential impact on the real issues facing this country.

Can anyone estimate how they will feel if their candidate loses in November?

I voted for the losing candidate 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2000 (you should be able to see a pattern to my voting). My reactions at the time:

1980: Holy sh!t. Carter may be the guy that can't get anything right, but Reagan? Will be be engaged in a nuclear war over the next few years.

1984: Sorry that Mondale lost, but Reagan has not been as bad as I thought he would be.

1988: Not so bad, I think that GHWB will do an OK job (this was the election in which I came closest to voting for a Republican for President -- Dukakis really turned me off, but my Democrat-imprinted DNA pulled the Dukakis lever).

2000: My candidate did not lose in November -- he lost in December -- in the Supreme Court. The whole election made me mad. Gore ran a lackluster campaign, he lost his home state, etc. The Supreme Court should not have stepped into the election. However, at the end of the day, I was willing to give W a chance.

2004: If W wins, I not only will be disappointed, but I will be very worried for the US. Even more worried than I was in 1980 when Reagan won his first term. W's term in office has been a disaster in most respects -- a bungled war, runaway budget deficits and total disrespect for the right to dissent just to name a few things. In the end of the day, I will feel the same way I did in 1980 -- as much as I would like to see W fall on his face, the fate of the country is too important. I will just hope and pray that W will do a better job in his second term than in his first.

I voted for the losing candidate 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2000 (you should be able to see a pattern to my voting). My reactions at the time:

1980: Holy sh!t. Carter may be the guy that can't get anything right, but Reagan? Will be be engaged in a nuclear war over the next few years.

1984: Sorry that Mondale lost, but Reagan has not been as bad as I thought he would be.

1988: Not so bad, I think that GHWB will do an OK job (this was the election in which I came closest to voting for a Republican for President -- Dukakis really turned me off, but my Democrat-imprinted DNA pulled the Dukakis lever).

2000: My candidate did not lose in November -- he lost in December -- in the Supreme Court. The whole election made me mad. Gore ran a lackluster campaign, he lost his home state, etc. The Supreme Court should not have stepped into the election. However, at the end of the day, I was willing to give W a chance.

2004: If W wins, I not only will be disappointed, but I will be very worried for the US. Even more worried than I was in 1980 when Reagan won his first term. W's term in office has been a disaster in most respects -- a bungled war, runaway budget deficits and total disrespect for the right to dissent just to name a few things. In the end of the day, I will feel the same way I did in 1980 -- as much as I would like to see W fall on his face, the fate of the country is too important. I will just hope and pray that W will do a better job in his second term than in his first.

Could you maybe take this one off? You know we could use the karma.

I voted for the losing candidate 1980, 1984, 1988 and 2000 (you should be able to see a pattern to my voting). My reactions at the time:

1980: Holy sh!t. Carter may be the guy that can't get anything right, but Reagan? Will be be engaged in a nuclear war over the next few years.

1984: Sorry that Mondale lost, but Reagan has not been as bad as I thought he would be.

1988: Not so bad, I think that GHWB will do an OK job (this was the election in which I came closest to voting for a Republican for President -- Dukakis really turned me off, but my Democrat-imprinted DNA pulled the Dukakis lever).

2000: My candidate did not lose in November -- he lost in December -- in the Supreme Court. The whole election made me mad. Gore ran a lackluster campaign, he lost his home state, etc. The Supreme Court should not have stepped into the election. However, at the end of the day, I was willing to give W a chance.

2004: If W wins, I not only will be disappointed, but I will be very worried for the US. Even more worried than I was in 1980 when Reagan won his first term. W's term in office has been a disaster in most respects -- a bungled war, runaway budget deficits and total disrespect for the right to dissent just to name a few things. In the end of the day, I will feel the same way I did in 1980 -- as much as I would like to see W fall on his face, the fate of the country is too important. I will just hope and pray that W will do a better job in his second term than in his first.


youve been on the wrong side of history and what the country was thinking for the last quarter century! congrats!

Could you maybe take this one off? You know we could use the karma.

Given that Maryland is safely in the Kerry camp, I probably could take this one off and not have any adverse impact on the outcome. But, I have voted in every election in which I have been eligible to vote and want to keep my record intact -- kind of like Cal Ripken's record. (BTW: I was on my Thursday night ride about 4-5 weeks ago and saw this vaguely familiar guy walking down the road with his wife -- it was not until I passed him that I realized that it was Ripken. He lives on my regular cycling route.)

youve been on the wrong side of history and what the country was thinking for the last quarter century! congrats!

Given that fashion seems to go in a 30 year cycle, I have hope that the rest of you will come around to my way of thinking sometime soon. Every time I see my teenage daughters wearing something that my high school girlfriends could have worn in the mid-1970s, I have new hope that the political realignment that began in 1980 soon will come to an end.

youve been on the wrong side of history and what the country was thinking for the last quarter century! congrats!

And this is good thing!

It depends whether or not the Dems can take back one or both of the chambers of Congress. I would prefer a Kerry victory, I will settle for a majority in congress.


What are the predictions on congress? I haven't heard anything. Ed?

i will be devastated ...but considering i am routing for ralph i have some advance warning

i guess i need to vote for kerry to get bush out but i don't think he is going to be any different than bush ...they are after all related and both S&CB members .

oh well ...it's slowly getting better at least i can speak my mind around my friends and co-workers without getting told off :rolleyes: most people seem to aggree now adays ...

What are the predictions on congress? I haven't heard anything. Ed?

but the prospects aren't so good that I''ve started planning communication strategy for the Bush impeachment quite yet.

I like our chances quite well in 2006, though. VERY strong chance of seizing control, impeaching, etc etc.

Other than not being able to gloat, I really wouldn't care. I have managed to prosper during both the Clinton and Bush administrations. I don't consider either candidate a threat.

Can anyone estimate how they will feel if their candidate loses in November?



Upset? That would be putting it mildly.

I have a six pack of beer ridin' on this durn thing. The idea of having to suffer another four years is bad enough. But the thought of having to go to the beer store and purchase a sixer of brew for my feeble-minded repub buddy and hand it over to his smirking Limbaugh listening face... now that really chaps my hide

Worried. But I would hope Bush would be impeached and/or become a lame duck president before he could do much more damage.

Since I am a cynic.

It depends whether or not the Dems can take back one or both of the chambers of Congress. I would prefer a Kerry victory, I will settle for a majority in congress.

Didn't Congress go Dem when Nixon was elected, then Repub during Clinton's time? In times of uncertainty, the American people have often unwittingly or by design, voted to balance off controversial presidents with congressional delegates from the opposite party.

Kerry's gonna win, though. He'll make Bush a laughing stock in the debates. GWB may be every small town mother's favorite baseball coach, but he and his boys are trouble. The debate over the Vietnam war is bringing that out. His lack of restraint in spending, and an economy responding without jobs, are making even a few Republicans edgy.

scared:

That Kerry can't make an unpopular decision when one needs to be made. Scared that he and the rest of the far left will keep pushing the United Nations, and being too concerned with the European opinion on our affairs.....= one world order menalty

I'll be very unappy but less unhappy than I'd be if my son were 17 instead of 4.

Ultimately I think both candidates have the country's best interests at heart, and I try to remember that they both feel the weight of all our hopes and ambitions. I have my preference, but I won't fall on my sword or get all dramatic if my candidate doesn't win.

Of course, things are going to be a little ugly on this board on November 3rd all the same. I predict one side declaring "nya nya" while the other claims some sort of election theft, sour grapes or what-not.