If you bought a lottery ticket and had a one-in-four chance of winning, would you not be over the moon? That's what Romney has right now as his election chances according to Nate Silver. Yeah, 75 percent looks great - but 25 percent is still a REAL shot at winning.
And I can already sense it in my felllow Kossacks: Nate says it'll be OK, so we're good.
No, WE'RE NOT GOOD AT ALL YET. Quit being complacent and GET OUT THE FUCKING VOTE!
I made phone-bank calls in Colorado today for Obama. I felt great afterward. For once I wasn't sitting around letting everybody else do the work. For once I wasn't sitting around clutching the pearls over the latest national poll.
Frankly, 25 percent still makes me clutch the pearls. I want that number a lot lower. Help get out the vote by clicking here http://campaigns.dailykos.com/.... It's how I got involved.
*Appreciate the Rec List. Obviously I'm not trying to demean anyone working hard for the President already. Call this some tough love. I sense some complacency and complacency is a stone-cold killer in politics. I sense it because I have been that way for too long - and felt the need to express how great it felt to actually DO something today instead of sit around and refresh Nate all day.