The author of this piece is right, Obama supporters have to fight like the Dickens in order to secure this victory. Perhaps, living in Florida, I've got a more skeptical view of how the votes get counted - but no one should assume anything just yet. There are some in the Republican party that are not only pure evil, but also very smart - and they'll stop at nothing to prevent Obama from taking office. We need to stop at nothing to make sure he gets there.
The time for celebrating will be on November 5th.

So crush them, sure, but also have a plan and an agenda of what exactly you're going to do to make things better.

I'm disappointed as anyone about how the congress has acted but then again they didn't have a proper veto-proof majority.

Yeah, because that kind of attitude hasn't been responsible for every extremist backlash from Hitler to Bush Jr. By all means, crush them! Break their backs! It's not like they're our countrymen and women. It's not like we're all ultimately part of one nation, one people, with the same broad goals and interests.

Destroy them! Hang their bodies in the town square! They won't become even more radical in response! They'll know they're beaten! They'll start wearing natural fibers and driving hybrids! It'll happen! Yay!

Long way to go, many attacks still to come....but the result is the same. Obama wins.

You have your side. The GOP usually plays tough and goes for crushing defeats, but suddenly when shoe on other foot all of a sudden you're full of peace and amity and bullshit unity around the GOP program.

The GOP is going down big time because the whole free market thing is crashing down hard and people know under Dems the middle class does better. The GOP has never led us out of economic crisis and only knows how to make things worse. You'll be crushed because the usual scare tactics won't work.

I'm a Democrat, I'll be voting Dems down the ticket, but I also know that Republicans are still citizens; they can still vote, they can still filibuster, they can still bring about investigations, smear campaigns and character assassinations. And if the Democrats get all Lord of the Flies now, the Republicans' constituency will support them when the Republicans start a political insurgency. If Democrats treat the Republican voters and their political agenda with respect during a time of victory, they'll keep their representatives honest down the line. If we blow it, we'll radicalize the Republican base and we'll be sorry down the line.

If you weren't such a shit-flinging little monkey, that'd be obvious to you.

Otherwise it's just a bunch of rah-rah feel-good crap.

This is no time for "yeah, but" for any of these Democratic candidates. Anything good that you think Obama would bring us here would be opposed, undermined, and obstructed by Governor Dino Rossi.

You want to crush them and break their spirit, right here? Beat Rossi like a cheap rug, and beat the rest of them like the scurvy dogs that they are.

I'm not saying we shouldn't push the social reform angle once Dems are in power right along with the economic reforms everyone is likely to admit we need, I'm just saying the jeering contempt for the other side is necessary for a group in the minority to keep their spirits up, but looks rather ugly on the ruling party (see: the Bush Administration).

Leaving the GOP with their party, platform, and socio-political perspective in complete and utter ruin, is the only way to effect any sort of positive change in them in the long-term.

See, B.A., we don't always have to
disagree.

Obama currently is polling at 8 and climbing very slowly with 4 weeks to go. Dems have spent 5.5 weeks of the past 52 at or below 0 points leading. Given Fivethirtyeight's 90.7% chance of winning, I'd say this lines up perfectly.

Statistically, with a Bradley effect (something being strangely counter-acted by people like Glenn Beck saying "it's not racist to vote against Obama") and historic drops, the max Obama should or could drop is 7 points, still holding a 1% lead. If Obama is still leading by any appreciable margin next monday, it will carry over to a victory.

Unless something catastrophic happens.